ALAN Cumming says he still feels like he’s thirty three despite turning sixty this Monday as he revealed plans to celebrate with a weekend of clubbing.
And the Scots actor who is currently hosting The Traitors US which won two Emmy’s in America also claimed he’d never received his awards because they were deemed too dangerous to take to Scotland.
Aberfeldy born Alan said of his big birthday: “It’s sort of weird because everybody mentions it, but I'm actually feeling pretty great about it because I like my life. I feel like nothing has collapsed or everything's still working. I feel like pretty much I'm still the same as I was a long time ago.
But also, being 60, you've been around the block a few times, and I think you see that cyclical nature of life that you sort of have wisdom, I suppose.”
He added: “ “I feel that my life hasn't really changed since I was 33. When I moved to New York, I was 33 years old, and basically, my life hasn't changed that much. I still travel a lot.
I still go out a lot. I feel that's when my life settled into a groove. So 33, sadly, the year of our Lord's death, but I managed to push through to 60.”
Of his plans on Sunday Alan, who visited Scotland this week added: “It involves dancing a lot. I'm going to be in London and I'm coming back and I'm going straight from the airport to a club, to this sort of tea dance. It's this thing called Mother Disco. And it's a really fun thing.
And it starts at like four in the afternoon.
“You're home with your cocoa by like 11 o'clock.
That's very unusual for me. It's just convenient with my plans this weekend because I'm normally like a late person.”
Alan also revealed his husband Grant had a not so secret surprise for him.
He explained: “And then the next night, Grant's organized a secret dinner for me, but I found out about it. I saw it on my office emails, because on my iPad, I get some of the office emails. I can press a button and I see the emails that go to my office. And I saw this thing from the restaurant. I have told him now. I told him when I was drunk the other night. I said to him, you need to be more sneaky. He's taken it pretty well.”
And then after that, the secret dinner, then we're going to Club Cumming and having a dancey night. And I will take in my birthday, you know, I'll become 60 at midnight that night.”
Of his love of partying he added: “It can be very late. I mean, on a normal night. There's nothing I enjoy more. Like, when you think, still got it, that thing when you're going home and other people are going to work.”
Alan also revealed that he never got to take his recent Emmy’s for the Traitors home to Scotland with him because they were banned on his flight.
He explained: “I have not got my Emmys. I've just realised that.
I won in September. And they said they were going to send them. Because I had to leave early, because I had to go back on the plane to Scotland. I was making this film with Brian Cox.
And they said to me, I wouldn't be able to take them on the plane because they're pointy, they’re sharp. They'd be like a weapon.
And then they said they were going to get the little things engraved.
So I don't have my Emmys. I didn't get my Emmys.”
