Amber Heard, the former wife of Johnny Depp, said she always had bisexual tendencies

Virginia Woolf famously fell in love with a woman while happily married to a man. Now bisexuality has moved beyond the circles of writers and artists and into the mainstream of British life.

The number of people who describe themselves as bisexual has jumped by 45 per cent in just three years, according to official statistics, with more young people saying they are “bi” than gay.

The Office for National Statistics said the number of people in the UK openly identifying as bisexual jumped from 230,000 in 2012 to 334,000 when the most recent population survey was carried out last year. Among 16 to 24 year olds, 1.8 per cent said they were bisexual, compared with 1.5 per cent who said they were gay or