The Jack Murley Sports Show

From the gym floor to global conversations about equality, Sam Phillips is a gymnast, activist, and leader who’s breaking barriers in sport. 🤸🏾‍♂️🌈🇺🇸 This week on The Jack Murley Sports Show, the All-American gymnast joins us for an honest and inspiring conversation about life on and off the mat — from personal milestones to the importance of representation. Sam’s story is remarkable: ✨ Compet...

From Olympic podiums to powerful personal truths — Jason Brown has become one of the most inspiring figures in the world of figure skating. ⛸️🌈 This week on The Jack Murley Sports Show, the Olympic bronze medallist, national champion, and social media sensation joins us for a candid, joyful, and uplifting conversation about life on and off the ice. Jason’s story is remarkable: ✨ Skating before t...

From Paralympic podiums to NFL sidelines, this summer on The Jack Murley Sports Show has been filled with inspiring LGBTQ+ sporting stories worth celebrating.  In this special episode, we pause, reflect, and shine a spotlight on some of the incredible guests who’ve joined us over the past few weeks — voices breaking barriers and championing authenticity in sport. In this bumper podcast, you’ll hea...

From historic stages to history-making voices — this is the biggest episode we’ve ever done of The Jack Murley Sports Show. 🌈⚽✨ Recorded live at the iconic Y Theatre in Leicester as part of Football Pride 2025 — the UK’s biggest celebration of LGBTQ+ inclusion in football — this special episode brings together a panel of trailblazers shaping the game today: Josh Cavallo — the Australian superst...

From smashing personal bests to stepping onto the global stage — Seamus Derbyshire is one of the brightest rising stars in British athletics. In 2025 alone, the 25-year-old has: Clocked 48.47s in the 400m hurdles — the sixth-fastest time ever by a UK runner Won bronze at the British Championships Represented Team GB in the 4x400m relay at the European Indoors Hitting the qualification time for the...

From grassroots pitches to international tournaments — the London Titans have become one of the UK’s most inspiring and inclusive football clubs, breaking down barriers and proving the beautiful game is for everyone. ⚽🌈 Winners of Sports Team of the Year at the Gaydio Pride Awards, the Titans recently took a whole load of players to France to compete at EuroGames Lyon, continuing their mission t...

From Olympic ice to inspiring change — Paul Poirier returns to The Jack Murley Sports Show for an honest, joyful, and deeply inspiring conversation about life on and off the rink. ❄️🏅 A multiple-time Olympian and two-time world silver medallist medallist, Paul is one of Canada’s most celebrated ice dancers — but his impact extends far beyond the sport. As a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, h...

In a way, Thomas Beattie’s story feels like it’s from another era. Just five short years ago, the former Hull City academy player opened up to the world about the fact that he happens to be gay – and, in doing so, became an inspiration for many other LGBTQ+ footballers who weren’t yet out in the beautiful game. Josh Cavallo, Jake Daniels, Zander Murray – they’ve all cited Thomas as someone they’ve...

It’s hard to find the words to sum up just how successful an athlete Katie-George Dunlevy is. The numbers, in many ways, tell one part of the cyclist’s journey – four Paralympic gold medals for Ireland across three separate Games (having gone to four in total!) with a clutch more Paralympic silver medals, multiple world championships and so much more besides to go with it. It’s no exaggeration to...

To call Kirsty Gilmour a legend of badminton would be an understatement of gross proportions! A three-time Olympian for Team GB, a medallist at multiple Commonwealth Games and European tournaments, the proud Scot is now adding another string to her bow – or should that be racquet?! – as one of the founding members of the Women’s Badminton Collective. The group is bringing together female players f...

Davis Atkin is a history-maker – and someone who defies definition in the traditional sense of what it means to be an elite-level man in international sport. The first out man to every represent Australia on the global stage in hockey, Davis is also a beauty blogger and make-up expert – and, since sharing his story a couple of years back, has become an inspiration for queer people across the world...

Kevin Maxen has always wanted to be ‘just Kev’, and to march unapologetically to the beat of his own drum. A lover of baseball who rose to the elite level of American football as a strength and conditioning coach with the Jacksonville Jaguars; and a lover of literature who helped some of the top athletes in the USA to excel in the NFL, Kevin has defied stereotypes throughout his life – and nowhere...

With the French Open in the rear-view mirror and Wimbledon underway in London, it’s no wonder that tennis is high up the sporting agenda right now. But for Wesley Rennison – the founder of the Dundee Deuces inclusive tennis and pickleball team – it’s the Serve It Summer Cup that took centre-stage at the weekend, as four of Scotland’s top inclusive tennis clubs came together for a day of serves, al...

Michael Gunning has done so much in his life after retirement that it’s almost easy to forget what an incredible athlete he was during his competitive swimming career. A Team GB athlete who switched to represent Jamaica, Michael went on to become one of the country’s greatest-ever swimmers – and made history as the Caribbean’s first out gay male athlete. Since then, Michael has made it his mission...

When Jordan Burrow donned the kit of former Blackpool striker Jake Daniels on this year’s series of I Kissed A Boy, he was looking to prove a point. As a kid growing up in rural Cumbria surrounded by football fans, he knew that seeing queer representation in the game would have made his life easier – and by going on the hit BBC reality show, he’s blazing a trail himself. So what role did sport pla...

For Caz Simone, football has always been part of their life. The Huddersfield Town Women player uses their platform not only to talk about the beautiful game but their journey as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community – including as a proud gender non-conforming person and advocate. It’s not bad for someone who was afraid of even joining a team at all when they were twelve years old – and in the years...

If you love figure-skating, you’ll almost certainly follow Ryan Dunk on social media. The US collegiate and junior champion has amassed more than half-a-million followers on social media – where his jaw-dropping routines to the likes of ABBA, George Michael and Queen regularly go viral. To say Ryan has a passion for figure-skating would be a massive understatement – and as a proud member of the LG...

As a two-time ironman competitor, Micheál Costello knows what it’s like to maintain an elite level of fitness – and this year, he hit a personal milestone when he was picked to represent Ireland on the international stage for the first time in Spain. And while that event didn’t go the way that Micheál wanted, he is determined to represent his country again – and to do so as an authentic member o...

Javier Raya was just a child when he began skating at a rink near a train station in Madrid. From there, the Spanish figure-skater turned himself into an elite level skater, winning the country’s National Championships in 2011 and medalling on countless other occasions – and becoming an Olympian when he represented his country at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. He’s not just an elite level athl...

We don’t know about you, but we don’t think there’s ever been a more important time to elevate the voices of the trans community in sport. At a time when it feels as if trans athletes across the globe are being talked ABOUT, we decided it was appropriate to use our platform to show what happens when you talk TO trans men and women in sport instead – about their goals; about what sport brings to th...

As a gay stuntman breaking barriers in Hollywood, Nicholas Daines has turned his gymnastics background into an asset that has made him one of the most sought-after individuals for some of the big screen’s biggest blockbuster stunts. He’s been in films like The Batman, Wicked and Indiana Jones – as Nicholas (a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community) turned his life as an elite-level gymnast and diver...

For more than a decade, Steve Dean has been part of the professional wrestling scene in the UK. As both a competitor and an official, few people know their way round the ring more – so when Steve dropped us a message to say he was up for sharing the story of his life as a wrestler alongside his journey with his own sexuality, we were always going to say ‘yes’ to getting him on for a chat. So, if y...

To say Richard Morris is a trailblazer is no exaggeration – and we’re not the only ones who think that either. The motor-racing driver and co-founder and CEO of Racing Pride was named as exactly that by Attitude magazine this year – as he helps smash down stereotypes that exist in the world of motorsport, brick by brick and race by race. It couldn’t be a more exciting time either – as at the start...

We said last time that Jahmal Howlett-Mundle was on the podcast that the Sevenoaks Town captain was going to do big things in the game when it comes to inclusivity – but we didn’t expect him to be doing them quite so quickly. The semi-pro footballer received some brilliant news to start April, when he was named as the winner of the LGBTQIA+ Award on this year’s Football Black List – which was thor...

We’re no strangers to TRUK United on this podcast – but thanks to a pioneering new documentary, the story of the world’s first trans-inclusive football club is making it to the big screen. Cameron Richards and Charlie Tidmas spent two years with their team, documenting the fortunes of the club for the documentary We’ll Go Down In History – which is a superb watch about the journey of the team. One...