Bombshell theory about Shawn Mendes' sexuality emerges after hitmaker breaks his silence on 'gay' rumours

The Kyle and Jackie O Show's radio stars have presented their own theories about Shawn Mendes' sexuality after the Canadian hitmaker addressed gay rumours on stage this week.

The Señorita hitmaker, 26, spoke to the crowd at Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Monday to address the 'truth' about his love life.

Telling his fans he was trying to be 'really brave', the singer - who famously dated US pop star Camilla Cabello - admitted that sexuality was a complex issue.

And speaking about Shawn's candid admission on Wednesday's Kyle and Jackie O Show, Jackie, 49, Jackie dropped her bombshell theory that he was, in fact bisexual.

'I love that Shawn Mendes has gone on stage he's sent the gays into meltdown because he's finally addressed for the first time about his sexuality which so many people have speculated on,' Jackie said.

'I think he's genuinely trying to work out his sexuality because obviously he is into girls, but he might obviously be into boys as well,' Jackie surmised. 

However her co-star, newsreader Brooklyn Ross, countered that he believed Shawn was in fact gay and his on stage comments were a way of giving his sexuality announcement 'a soft landing'. 

'Stop holding on to the straight thing,' Brooklyn, who recently tied the knot with partner Damien Dirienzo in Las Vegas, told Jackie. 'He's moving on to our world now. Let him go.'

Not willing to concede, Jackie shot back with: 'We're not saying he's entirely on your side,' to which Brooklyn replied with: 'Give it two months.'

'He's cracking that egg open, the omelette will be made very soon,' Brooklyn replied.

'I think you're probably right,' Jackie conceded. 

Addressing the rumours on stage this week, Shawn said that he was 'figuring out' his sexuality 'like everyone.'

'There's this thing about my sexuality, and people have been talking about it so long,' Shawn said, saying it was 'kind of silly, because I think sexuality is such a beautifully complex thing, and it’s so hard to just put into boxes.'

'The real truth about my life and my sexuality is that, man, I’m just figuring it out like everyone.' 

He continued: 'It always felt like such an intrusion on something very personal to me. Something that I was figuring out in myself, something that I had yet to discover and still have yet to discover it.'

'And it feels really scary because we live in a society that has a lot to say about that. And I’m trying to be really brave and just allow myself to be a human and feel things. And that’s all I really want to say about that for now.'

Shawn's remarks came before he launched into his new song The Mountain, which deals with his sexuality. 

The lyrics to the song include the line: 'You can say I'm too young/You can say I'm too old/You can say I like girls or boys, whatever fits your mold.'  

He previously discussed speculation about his sexuality in a 2018 Rolling Stone interview.

'I thought, "You f*****g guys are so lucky I'm not actually gay and terrified of coming out,' he said at the time.

'That's something that kills people. That's how sensitive it is. Do you like the songs? Do you like me? Who cares if I'm gay?'

He also spoke about feeling the pressure to be seen out with women in order to prove he was 'not gay.'

'In the back of my heart, I feel like I need to go be seen with someone — like a girl — in public, to prove to people that I’m not gay. Even though in my heart I know that it’s not a bad thing. There’s still a piece of me that thinks that. And I hate that side of me.'

Mendes previously dated Fifth Harmony pop star Cabello from 2019 until 2021.