Jack Fincham has revealed how he blew £1million on gambling as he battled drink and drug addictions for 14 years in a new interview on This Morning on Wednesday.

The TV personality, 32, laid everything bare as he candidly admitted he didn’t have ‘any regard for himself’ and would often put himself in danger by driving recklessly.

Jack soared to fame after winning Love Island in 2018 with then-girlfriend Dani Dyer. But while her career has gone from strength-to-strength, Jack’s life hasn’t quite followed on the same successful path.

He was recently bailed from jail over his dog attacking a runner and has since opened up on how his life has spiralled due to his addictions, which at one point saw him spend a whopping £40,000 in one day on online Blackjack.

Opening up in his first TV appearance since making the shocking admissions, Jack told hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard how he blew the cash and lifted the lid on how his addictions took him down a dark path.

The reality star, who has been sober since Christmas Day, said: ‘It was awful. It always started out like you just have a drink then you end up taking other drugs, and then because you’ve taken so many of those I’d take others to go to sleep.

Jack Fincham has revealed how he blew £1million on gambling as he battled drink and drug addictions for 14 years in a new interview on This Morning

The TV personality, 32, laid everything bare as he candidly admitted he didn’t have ‘any regard for himself’ and would often put himself in danger by driving recklessly

‘It’s a cycle, you’re alright for a few days. That’s why I always thought it wasn’t a problem because I’d have a few days off in between. But I then discovered another drug, an anti-anxiety drug and I became physically addicted to it and went to rehab.

‘My family and my relationship with Chloe [Brockett], they are all so supportive but how many more times can they say it’s okay now we’ll get through this? It got to the point where there was nothing to salvage.’

He continued: ‘I would be drinking and I wouldn’t be in my right mind so I convinced myself, I’ll go and win £100,000 today on Blackjack today – it was never going to happen. 

‘This was only ever when I was intoxicated. I was doing £40,000 days, £5,000 hands on Blackjack. Who did I think I was?’

The reality star revealed: ‘I’ve wasted very close to £1million. It’s not even just that. The behaviour that I was doing, I was driving recklessly, having no regard for myself.

‘I didn’t really care about myself. I’d end up crashing cars and then paying to ge tthem fixed. It was all my fault, I hold my hands up to all of this. I am dealing with the consequences and now I want to set it straight.’

Jack added: ‘Before, things would go wrong or something bad would happen and I couldn’t handle it. I was always off drinking and taking drugs, it was masking – not dealing with the issues and problems that I had head on. 

‘I thought I didn’t have a problem. From the age of 18 this has been an ongoing issue but unfortunately now since being on TV those mistakes are now public. They’re not stuff that you can deal with behind closed doors.

‘It’s stuff that I’ve done that now everyone knows about. It’s not something I could keep back.’

Jack soared to fame after winning Love Island in 2018 with then-girlfriend Dani Dyer

Opening up in his first TV appearance since making the shocking admissions, Jack told hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard how he blew the cash and lifted the lid on how his drug, alcohol and gambling addictions took him down a dark path

The reality star, who has been sober since Christmas Day, said: ‘It was awful. It always started out like you just have a drink then you end up taking other drugs’

He explained that whether he became famous or not, he would still have struggled with these issues.

He told the presenters: ‘No matter how I ended up with money, this would have happened regardless, no matter what the scenario was.

‘Having money in abundance quite quickly accelerated it but this would have happened anyway. The amount of opportunities that I’ve messed up due to this but then would not confront it and not actually say I’ve got a problem here. 

‘I would go onto the next thing, let someone down and burn some bridges. But I didn’t want to burn those bridges. All of a sudden, there’s no one left to fall back on. There was nothing more to salvage.’

Jack explained that he’s lost countless opportunities due to ‘not turning up’ for booked appearances and being ‘unreliable’. 

He confessed: ‘I even used to come up here all the time and do the competitions with Andi Peters and I loved it. It was amazing but unfortunately due to me not turning up for things and being unreliable, those opportunities went.

‘I wasn’t able to confront these issues head on but now I feel like I am in a place to do this.’

When Cat quizzed on why Jack is coming forward to talk about these issues now, the reality star said he wants to ‘hold himself accountable’.

The reality star revealed: ‘I’ve wasted very close to £1million. It’s not even just that. The behaviour that I was doing, I was driving recklessly, having no regard for myself’

He explained that whether he became famous or not, he would still have struggled with these issues

He recalled: ‘There’s been a few different tiimes that I would say I’m changing now, I’m really sorry for doing this, but I had no real intention of changing because I hadn’t been dealing with the issues.’

Jack continued: ‘I hold my hands up, I did mistakes I did have these problems, I was taking drugs, I was letting people down. 

‘But let’s change the narrative now and use that platform so people can see if he can do it, if he can have all these opportunities, if he can have all this money, lose it all down to what he was doing and turn it around, why can’t I?

‘There’s a lot of eyes on it and I want it to be something positive now. I’m bored of myself keep saying I’m sorry and making the same mistake over and over again, that’s what addiction is. It’s like insanity.’

Presenter Ben asked Jack why he thinks this time his sobriety will stick, to which he responded: ‘The reason it’s gonna stick now is because there’s nothing more to salvage. 

‘I’m on my last chances, there’s no going back now. I’m at the lowest I’ve ever been in every way.

‘I’ve got more to lose in terms of my relationships with my friends and my family – they are better. Me and Chloe are in a really good place. I’ve never really had that where I thought that’s not worth losing.

‘Everything I had I thought it’s okay if I lose it, I’ll get it back. This time around I’ve got so much to lose in terms of stuff that you can’t buy.’

Gushing about his girlfriend Chloe Brockett, Jack quipped: ‘I love her. I see a future. I wanna get married and buy a farm and I see that with her’ 

It comes after Jack adetailed how he hit rock bottom as he attempted to take his own life last year by throwing himself off a hotel balcony 

Lifting the lid on how he plans to make sure the future is different, Jack revealed he’s focussing on ‘what he’s good at’ and setting goals for himself.

He explained: ‘I signed up for a boxing fight I’m doing on March 1. I want a skill that I can learn and have forever and no one can take away from me.’

Jack added that he is also taking on a Master’s degree in financial trading and has ‘gone back to office supplies and stationary as a pen seller’.

Gushing about his girlfriend Chloe Brockett, Jack quipped: ‘I love her. I see a future. I wanna get married and buy a farm and I see that with her. 

‘The person I was before couldn’t hold down a relationship or a job. I’m willing to put the work in now and change this narrative and build a future for me and Chloe.’

It comes after Jack adetailed how he hit rock bottom as he attempted to take his own life last year by throwing himself off a hotel balcony.

Speaking to The Sun about the dark period in his life, Jack explained: ‘I feel like a failure, utterly mortified by the things I have done. I had the world at my feet and I screwed it up.

‘Embarrassed just doesn’t touch it. It is hideous. I cry when I think about how I’ve let people down. I have blown more than a million pounds thanks to drugs, booze and gambling.’

He added that finding fame on Love Island didn’t ruin his life, but instead he did so himself, before confessing that he was ‘an addict’.

He said: ‘Embarrassed just doesn’t touch it. It is hideous. I cry when I think about how I’ve let people down. I have blown more than a million pounds thanks to drugs, booze and gambling’

Jack noted that drugs played a part in the breakdown of his relationship with Dani, remarking that his ‘priorities were wrong’ and he was a ‘bad boyfriend’ [pictured together in 2019]

He added that finding fame on Love Island didn’t ruin his life, but instead he did so himself, before confessing that he was ‘an addict’ 

Jack noted that drugs played a part in the breakdown of his relationship with Dani, remarking that his ‘priorities were wrong’ and he was a ‘bad boyfriend’.

Despite the great opportunities being on the show offered, Jack wished he had ‘never been in the public eye’ and remained who he was beforehand, but was quick to note that destruction was ‘always in me’.

Indeed, things got so bad that at his lowest ebb, Jack attempted suicide after throwing himself off a balcony during a break to a West Midlands country hotel with TOWIE star girlfriend Chloe.

The father-of-one recalled how he checked himself on IMDB [a TV and film database] while in the hotel room and seeing himself in 30 TV shows, realised he’d ‘messed up’ his life because he had ‘nothing to show’ for his fame.

Admitting that his addictions ‘destroyed everything’ after having the world at his feet, Jack began to order excessive amounts of booze from room service, knocking back the drinks one by one.

He also began gambling on his phone, and after wrongly believing he’d spent the last of his money, he began have thoughts that his life wasn’t worth living as he’d ‘had enough’.

As worried girlfriend Chloe headed downstairs to warn staff not to serve him anymore and to call an ambulance for fears he would kill himself, Jack jumped off the balcony.

Looking back at the harrowing moment, Jack told the publication: ‘I remember weighing up the options, thinking, ‘I’ve nothing left to give here. Not a penny to my name. Nothing is salvageable.’ We were in a hillside lodge and I jumped. If I’d have dived at a different angle, I may not be here today. That is scary.’

Jack survived the suicide attempt and was later taken away by the police to sober up, miraculously escaping with just a busted ankle that left him unable to walk for weeks.

It comes after Jack opened up about his ‘testing time’ after he was freed on bail as he appeals his jail sentence for a dog attack 

The Love Island winner was jailed for six weeks after pleading guilty after his Cane Corso mauled a runner in north Kent in 2022

It also comes after Jack opened up about his ‘testing time’ after he was freed on bail as he appeals his jail sentence for a dog attack.

The Love Island winner was jailed for six weeks after pleading guilty after his Cane Corso mauled a runner in north Kent in 2022.

And Jack took to Instagram on Friday to share a video saying he ‘really appreciates the support’ from fans as he prepares to take on a boxing fight next month.

The reality star said he has a ‘lot of weight to lose’ before the face-off but the boxing match has come at the perfect time as he ‘needed something to focus on’ as he hinted at the difficulties.

Jack said: ‘I’ve been training really hard for my fight on March 1 at Harrow Leisure Centre in London, it’s been a bit of a testing time recently.

‘I’d really appreciate the support. A lot of weight to lose in a short amount of time but I’m really glad I took the fight because I really needed something to focus on.

‘Going forward this year there will be a lot going on with the boxing. I will be signing with Warren boxing management and start boxing professionally in England.

‘I’m not too sure I will be fighting in Dubai again.’

Fincham appeared at Southend-on-Sea Magistrates’ Court facing two counts of being in charge of a dangerously out-of-control dog on Wednesday 

Jack immediately lodged an appeal following his sentencing at Southend Magistrates’ Court.

He appeared at Southend-on-Sea Magistrates’ Court last month facing two counts of being in charge of a dangerously out-of-control dog.

He pleaded guilty to the charges, which included a separate incident involving a woman occurring in Grays, Essex, in June 2024, although no injury was reported on that occasion.

The former TOWIE regular was sentenced to six weeks behind bars after the judge determined handing Fincham a further suspended sentence was not appropriate.

When the verdict was read out, his on-and-off girlfriend Chloe Brockett burst into tears and was ushered out of the court room by his relatives, who were also in attendance.

For confidential support, call Samaritans on 116 123, visit samaritans.org or visit https://www.thecalmzone.net/get-support 

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