Ulrika Jonsson has come forward admitting that she has had sexual encounters with women, after being inspired by Love Island star Amber Gill's confession earlier this week.
Amber had taken to Twitter this week to say: " Switching teams was the best decision I made in my life."
While Amber said that she 'couldn’t go through it again with a man' and that 'men make [her] feel ill', Ulriika, 54. admitted that she had very different motivations to her encounters with women.
In her column with The Sun, Ulrika wrote that she has had 'a few dalliances' with women throughout her lifetime.
Unlike Amber, who has proudly switched teams, the TV presenter insisted that she hadn't actively pursued women but that 'things just happened' with her pinning the interactions on sexual desire.
The mother of four said that her motivations were never 'based on [her] despair of men', which she believes is a reason people are making declarations of their interest in the same sex.
The Swedish star admitted that she can understand how frustrating dating apps can be, with her own experience of using online dating matching a lot of complaints that are brought against men, but that she feels 'switching sides' could be insulting.
She wrote: "I can’t help but put myself in gay women’s shoes and wonder if I wouldn’t feel a tad insulted by straight women effectively saying that they are fed up with men so they’re going to try the second best option.
"I speak to my lesbian friends and they feel this kind of behaviour and change of approach is disingenuous and disparaging towards them. It is lazy because it comes across as some kind of fairweather attitude — women get fed up with men, so they’ll give a gay woman a try."
The Gladiators alum confirmed that she wasn't trying to suggest Amber Gill is not gay, but after the young reality star asked not to be put in a box it left Ulrika asking 'what is it?'.
Moving on from Amber, Ulrika opened up about a "unlucky in love" friend coming out 18 months ago after leading a life of being messed around by men who couldn't wrap their heads around commitment.
Although her friend had dated men in the past, Ulrika insists that it wasn't her disappointment in men that led her to pursuing relationships with women.
Ulrika penned: "She didn’t turn to women because she thought men were bastards. It was who she had always been. And I’ve never seen her as happy as she is now in her settled, lesbian relationship."
Ulrika happily admitted that she's happy that women are feeling comfortable making their sexuality known on the condition that they're not using gay women as 'sloppy seconds'.
She wrote: "I’m so glad the landscape is now one that enables many more people to feel comfortable declaring their sexuality because a lot of the “shame” has fallen by the wayside.
"I welcome that wholeheartedly, as long as it doesn’t feel to gay women as if they’re sloppy seconds."
