30
l
THE
PULSE
SPRING
artistic
streak,
she
attributes
it
to
her
birth
mother
,
a
dancer
originally
from
Hong
Ko
ng.
Growing
up
in
St
Andrews,
KT
had
dreams
of
becoming
an
actress.
As
a
teenager
she
got
into
the
Scottish
Yo
uth
Theatre,
playing
Puck
in
A
Midsummer
Night8217s
Dream
at
The
Burrell
Collection
in
Glasgow
.
By
the
time
she
had
performed
at
the
Edin-
8220I
felt
just
like
Shane
McGowan.
It
was
a
debauched
,
mad
month
not
getting
to
bed
until
7am8221
Gay-T
Tu
nstall?
The
reality
behind
the
rumours
It
all
star
ted
with
those
rainbow
braces.
Whilst
KT
attempted
to
channel
the
chic
andro
gyny
of
her
heroine
Pa
tti
Smith,
right,
for
her
first
major
photo
shoot,
she
was
attracting
a
whole
new
mark
et
on
the
other
side
of
the
world.
8220It
didn
8217t
really
occur
to
me
that
these
children
8217s
present
ers8217
braces
were
going
to
send
out
a
message
that
I
was
perhaps
gay
.
The
rainbow
is
a
far
more
prevalent
symbol
in
America
for
the
gay
community
and
a
good
friend
in
San
Fr
ancisco
e-mailed
me
to
say
:
8216A
ll
the
girls
are
really
loving
your
braces.
82178221
Heal
Over
,
a
love
song
written
for
a
friend
that
is
littered
with
provocative
sounding
lines
didn
8217t
help
either
.
1994
winter
Olympics,
will
offer
its
snow-
capped
skyline
for
her
new
video
,
If
Only
.
There8217s
also
a
sold-out
show
.
Now
living
in
Harlesden,
We
st
London,
Katie
Tunstall
hails
from
St
Andrews,
where
neither
her
parents
nor
her
two
brothers
Joe
and
Daniel
remain.
The
entire
Tunstall
pack
has
journeyed
south
of
the
Border
.
However
,
last
year
,
they
clubbed
together
to
buy
a
base
in
Edinbur
gh8217s
New
To
wn,
and
the
city
that
provided
the
big
smok
e
of
her
childhood
she
now
calls
a
second
home.
It
is
fast
gathering
in
significant
memories
too
.
She
performed
at
Hogmanay
2005.
And
on
25
December
2007,
he
r
bo
yf
ri
en
d-
sl
as
h-
dr
um
me
r,
Lu
ke
Bullen,
who
she8217s
been
dating
for
three
years,
showed
up
at
the
new
pad
with
an
engagement
ring.
8220The
doorbell
went
and
I
was
thinking,
8216Who
the
hell
is
coming
round
on
Christmas
Day8217?
I
didn8217t
want
to
answer
it.
It
could
have
been
the
paps,8221
she
laughs.
Lu
ke
had
even
sought
her
father8217
s
permiss
ion
the
previou
s
month.
8220I
was
so
glad
he
did
that.
It8217s
a
really
lovely
thing
to
do
if
you
are
a
close
family
.8221
Close
they
may
be,
but
the
tie
between
KT
and
her
parents
is
beref
t
of
any
biology
.
She
bats
this
away
as
a
minor
detail.
8220My
parents
are
pretty
ex
ceptional
people.
Since
before
we
could
understand,
they8217ve
made
us
feel
lik
e
adoption
is
something
quite
special.8221
Ye
t
around
eight
years
ago
,
curiosity
got
the
better
of
her
.
With
a
little
nudge
from
Mik
e
Leigh8217s
film
Secrets
and
Lies,
she
decided
to
risk
the
breaking
of
a
near
-perfect
bond
with
her
adoptive
parents
and
track
down
her
real
mother
.
8220She
was
absolutely
over
the
moon.
But
my
relationship
with
my
biological
moth-
er
is
not
easy
on
my
family
.
It8217s
a
lot
for
them
to
deal
with,
particularly
because
I8217m
a
pubic
figure.8221
Inevitably
,
KT
tries
to
skim
over
the
subject
but,
once
in
her
stride,
it8217s
as
if
she
wished
she
could
tell
me
more.
It
turns
out
her
biological
mother
lives
in
Scotland.
She8217s
half
Chinese
but
looks
even
more
so
.
Her
blood
father
is
Irish
but
she
has
never
met
him.
As
for
her
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