Adam Thomas has recalled the awkward moment his local corner shop robbed him of £100, after the owner said he ‘didn’t need’ the money.
The Emmerdale star, 37, recently completed a stint on I’m A Celebrity: South Africa, and has since found himself at risk of being blacklisted by ITV after claiming he felt ‘exploited’ by the channel during his turbulent time on the show.
Now, Adam has shared the moment that the owner of his village shop tried to swindle him by changing the figure to pay on the card machine, before he realised the vastly different amount.
The actor told his brothers Ryan and Scott he confronted the owner, who noted he’d just earned a big pay day on I’m A Celeb.
After clashing with the owner, Adam went on to share that he returned to the shop weeks later, and the owner apologised before returning the money.
He said: ‘I got robbed the other day!’ before a surprised Ryan replied: ‘What are you on about?’
Adam Thomas has recalled the awkward moment his local corner shop robbed him of £100, after the owner said he ‘didn’t need’ the money
Speaking on their At Home With The Thomas Bros podcast, Adam explained: ‘I got robbed!
‘Listen right, so I went to my local off-licence, I was buying some sweets for the kids, and I went to pay for it, and I paid for it, and then I looked at the card machine, and it said £100, and I was like ”bro what are you doing?”
‘He went: ”Come on you don’t need it!” and I was like ”what do you mean I don’t need it?”
Adam continued that the owner of the shop told him: ”You’ve just come off the jungle man, you don’t need it.”
The soap star continued: ‘I looked him dead in the eyes, and don’t get me wrong I had a banter with this guy, we have a little bit of a laugh back and forth and everything. I was just a bit caught off guard.’
Ryan noted Adam and his family had been visiting the shop for ‘a while,’ and the star said the owner had even given his two children free sweets in the past.
He added: ‘That’s what I think, he’s getting his money back. But I was like ”bro you can’t do that.”
‘He said ”oh come on man, you don’t need, I need some money, I need some.” I said ”listen, I like you and everything, but don’t take the p**s out of me.”
‘Weeks passed and everything, and I sort of forgot about it, and I was walking through my village again, and I went in there, and he was like ”bro where have you been? You’ve not been back, I’ve been wanting to give you the money, come in, come in, come in,” and he was so apologetic.
The star recently completed a stint on I’m A Celebrity : South Africa, and has since found himself at risk of being blacklisted by ITV after claiming he felt ‘exploited’ by the channel
Now, Adam has shared the moment that the owner of his village shop tried to swindle him by changing the figure to pay on the card machine, before he realised the vastly different amount
‘Like counting the money out, and he was giving it to me, and he was like, I’m so sorry, like I was just doing it as a joke. I didn’t really mean to offend you or anything like that.”
‘And I felt really bad, and at one point I was gonna go ”you know what, keep the money, it’s not about the money.”
‘And anyway, he gave me my money back, and then I ended up giving him the bacon roll, and the croissant.’
Laughing, Adam’s brother Scott joked: ‘Adam is the only guy on this planet who rewards someone with a bacon roll and a coffee of someone who tries to rob him.’
Adam’s appearance on I’m A Celeb: South Africa came to a dramatic end, after he risked being blacklisted by ITV after claiming the broadcaster ‘exploited’ him during the I’m A Celebrity… South Africa final.
The TV personality won the latest series of the I’m A Celebrity spin-off, but his triumph was overshadowed by a heated argument with campmates David Haye and Jimmy Bullard as the final went out live.
Comments made by brothers Adam, Scott and Ryan during a recent instalment of their weekly podcast have prompted questions about their long-term future with ITV.
Adam was quick to explain how distressing he had found his time in the jungle, saying: ‘I just felt like I’d just been exploited and I think you can see it at the end of the live show.’
Despite winning with an impressive 51 per cent of public votes, he added: ‘I feel like I sold my soul and you couldn’t pay me £10million to do that experience again. Nothing is worth what I went through in there.’
At one point during the candid podcast chat, the TV personality broke down in tears, saying: ‘I used to sit down with my kids and watch this show, and now I won’t be able to do that. It will remind me of the experience I went through.’
His protective twin Scott was intent on blaming the broadcaster, insisting: ‘All those campmates were pissed off at ITV. It wasn’t your issue. It is ITV’s issue.
‘In those shows, you get eaten alive, because it is so toxic. This is what is cut-throat about these shows: they are so high-risk. It wasn’t your fault, it was the way ITV played it.’
The brothers’ brutal remarks have certainly provided good exposure for their YouTube channel, which saw a jump from 39,000 to 41,500 followers since the video was published yesterday.
‘It was a clear message,’ an insider told Daily Mail. ‘Adam is furious and he doesn’t want to tell his story anywhere near ITV.’
While Adam’s camp mates Sinitta and Scarlett Moffat appeared on several ITV programmes, including Good Morning Britain and Loose Women to discuss the show this week, Adam has kept his distance from the cameras.
He was notably absent from the I’m A Celebrity spin off, Unpacked, where stars appear to discuss their time in the jungle.
The I’m A Celeb fallout has prompted a series of issues for ITV, not least the 1,200 Ofcom complaints the broadcast received. Earlier this week the Daily Mail revealed that ITV currently has no plans for a third series.
A spokesperson told the Daily Mail: ‘The edit gives a fair and accurate representation of life in camp.
‘The duty of care for our contestants is of the utmost importance to us. We have measures in place to ensure celebrities are supported at every stage of the process.
‘The production team monitors everyone in camp and if at any time we felt someone overstepped the line of acceptable behaviour, then we would intervene.’
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