'Let's Make a Deal' host Wayne Brady comes out as pansexual

WASHINGTON (TND) — Wayne Brady, who is known for hosting the televised game show “Let’s Make a Deal," has announced he is pansexual.

Brady shared the news on his social media accounts on Monday.

As someone who gets to bring joy to others daily on tv, it's been ironic that I don't experience it as much as I'd like," Brady wrote on Instagram and TikTok. "I advocate mental health for all and a part of that is self transparency. In doing my work, I've come to see a few truths, one of them being that I want to be free to love whomever I want. This truth makes me Pan and part of the Igbtq+ family."

A 28-second video accompanied the posts, with Brady lip-synching the Celine Dion song, "It's All Coming Back to Me Now." He dons a pink suit, as well as a wig of long hair.

It also features people dancing, with one waving the rainbow flag.

It's scary as hell to say out loud but here it is," Brady wrote. "The people I admire the most are the ones brave enough to be themselves unapologetically. This shouldn't shake anyone's world, but if it bothers you at all, that's your business: I was so afraid of having my manhood questioned, but screw that. A 'real man' in my eyes, isn't afraid to be honest and happy. From now on, I'll be over here living my best life!"

Brady, who is 51 years old, rose to fame as part of the cast of the improvisational comedy television series "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" He starred alongside Colin Mochrie, who commented on Brady's video.

"Welcome and Congratulations! Love you, my friend," Mochrie wrote.

A person who is pansexual is attracted to people regardless of their sex or gender.

"Bisexual -- with an open mind!” Brady told "People."

He also told "People" his ex-wife Mandie Taketa, 47, was the first person he came out to. The two share a daughter, Maile, 20.