Personal Life
Lucas is a patron of the Karen Morris Memorial Trust, a UK charity for leukaemia patients and their families. In April 2004, he appeared on Celebrity Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and won £62,500 for the charity.
He lives with Australian actress Rebel Wilson He is an avid supporter of Arsenal F.C. Lucas admitted, when a guest on The Rob Brydon Show, that he does not drive because of his tendency to daydream.
Lucas is openly gay and has said he first had an inkling he was gay at the age of seven. In December 2006, Lucas entered into a civil partnership with Kevin McGee, in a lavish ceremony in Central London. In attendance were various celebrities, including Barbara Windsor, Neil Tennant, Elton John and Courtney Love. After six years together, their civil partnership was dissolved through the High Court in 2008, becoming the first high-profile civil partnership dissolution in Britain.
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