"It probably comes from my mother. I can be direct but, to be fair, I can also be very aware of my surroundings. I can read a room. I know my audience. I have a keen ear for the wrong moments to say something,” he continues.
“I feel like I’m sensitive to other people. But at the same time, when I want to make a point, I will make that point and I will debate it. So I feel that might rub people, because I feel like people are mostly agreeable, and I can be agreeable unless I’m faced with someone who doesn’t see my point of view and I’m happy to go toe-to-toe.
“Usually I have a well-researched, balanced opinion. I am able to [state] my opinion clearly and that bothers people, I find, but at the same time I don’t care. I have zero cares about what people think of me. I am sensitive but at the same time I’m self-assured.”
Asked what he considers to be a deal- breaker in relationships, Gunner says respect is high on his radar.
“I tell you what, I might have given you a different answer two months ago but someone who doesn’t respect me, someone who gives me criticisms unnecessarily, someone with a bad attitude who doesn’t have that naturally occurring positivity in their character.
“I like someone who’s not ambitious to distraction – if you’re all about working 60-hour weeks and putting everything else behind that, then that’s not for me. I don’t go for someone who is totally focused on money and wealth, [the] trappings of wealth and accumulating wealth. Someone that doesn’t care about animals or the environment, someone that litters ... smokes cigarettes.”
“I don’t like someone who doesn’t look after themselves [or] have self-respect.”