It was a little secret, just the Robinsons' affair

Kirk McCambley, the young man at the centre of a sex scandal that's rocked Northern Ireland's political establishment, is being headhunted by Britain's top gay magazine, which wants him to be its cover boy.

McCambley was 19 at the time of his affair with Iris Robinson, the 60-year-old wife of Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson. Iris Robinson, also a top politician, last week admitted as well that she'd received £50,000 (€55,654) from two businessmen to help McCambley open a café.

According to the Official UK Charts Company, last week's download sales of the song "Mrs. Robinson" by Simon & Garfunkel were up 1,200 per cent in Northern Ireland. The song was written for the 1967 film The Graduate, which is about a young man (played by Dustin Hoffman) being seduced by the much older Mrs Robinson. It contains the line: "It's a little secret, just the Robinsons' affair."

Iris Robinson created controversy in 2008 when she told BBC radio she considered homosexuality an "abomination". Matthew Todd, editor of Attitude, Britain's best-selling gay magazine, told The Times on Monday that he is trying to contact Kirk McCambley. "We would love to see him on the cover of Attitude. We think our readers would go wild for him," Todd said.

Meanwhile, more than 5,500 people have joined a McCambley fan club on Facebook.