BBC Radio 2 host Michelle Visage gives advice to 16-year-old Korben, calling him a 'beautiful soul'.
RuPaul's Drag Race star Michelle Visage has told a boy whose prom dress was seen by millions on Twitter to "forget about any negativity".He and his mum Nina Green spoke to Visage on her"I don't want you to let your soul be destroyed by anything you see out there," the presenter told him.Explaining she had a "very important message", she said "you're 16 years old, you're smart but you're also impressionable".
"The reception he got from his school friends was amazing because it showed that level of acceptance - he was his true self and that meant so much," she told Visage on Friday.Visage called her a wonderful mum and said she was "inundated" with tweets about Korben, who she called the "real-life Everybody's Talking About Jamie".
Mrs Green had previously said they had received an "extremely positive" reaction on social media and were ignoring any negative comments."All the comments have been really, really lovely - and I've loved having the opportunity to show people you can express yourself." Earlier this week, the pair appeared on ITV's This Morning, where presenter Dermot O'Leary described Mrs Green as an "extraordinary" parent.
Asked what she would say to others in her situation, she said: "I was nervous, we have had some negative comments on social media but we ignore them.Find BBC News: East of England on
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