Adam Thomas reveals he was ROBBED in local supermarket after his controversial I’m A Celeb stint
ADAM Thomas has revealed that he was ROBBED in a local corner shop by the owner.
The actor, who appeared on the latest I’m A Celebrity All Stars, explained that he was charged £100 for a couple of bags of sweets.
Adam was left stunned when he confronted the shopkeeper, who told him he didn’t think the soap star “needed the money” after his latest stint on the ITV jungle show, where he received a sizeable fee for his appearance.
The Emmerdale star said he spotted the error on the card reader after he had already paid for it.
Speaking on At Home with the Thomas Bros podcast, Adam said: “I got robbed the other day!’
“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 went on to say that the owner told him: ”You’ve just come off the jungle man, you don’t need it’.”
He 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.
“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 ‘I listen, I like you and everything, but don’t take the p**s out of me’.”
The Waterloo Road star revealed that the owner finally paid him back and apologised for it.
“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.
“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.”
The actor found himself at the centre of a catastrophic row during his time I’m A Celeb as he clashed with co-stars Jimmy Bullard and David Haye.
Last month, Adam said he had finally moved on from his I’m A Celeb feud drama, saying “a weight has been lifted” from his shoulders.
On a recent episode of their podcast, Adam’s brother Scott noted: “Ever since all this jungle stuff, you’ve become a proper man, mate, you’ve got a different presence. You’ve god a new strength, mate, about you.
“Even the way you talk, everything.”
Admitting he agreed, Adam responded: “I don’t know, I feel like, for months, I just feel like there was a big dark cloud over me.
“It was for a while until after the final. And then, literally, about a week and a half after the final, I was like, ‘Oh my god, it’s gone’.”
As Scott, Adam and brother Ryan continued to discuss the tough time, the jungle winner admitted he was finally feeling back to his best.
“I just feel like a big weight has been lifted.
“Even when I did the podcast when I first came out, it was straight after as well so I was resenting it a lot, I was angry a lot, I was sad.
“But now I can see the light between the trees a little bit. I just feel like, you know what? It was what it was, it was meant to be, that was my journey and I feel like a better man for it.”
Following the chaotic I’m A Celeb live final, which saw boxer David and former footballer Jimmy stand against Adam, the actor broke down on tears on his podcast with Ryan and Scott.
At the time, he said: “I’m just tired, I want it all to go away and just be forgotten about.
“The sad truth is that everyone will go on with their lives but for me, this will be in for me the rest of my life”.