Ant Middleton let 13-year-old son grab an electric fence to ‘teach him a lesson’

Ant Middleton has revealed helium fto his 13-year-old lad interaction an electrical obstruction to ‘teach him a lesson’.

The erstwhile SAS: Who Dares Wins presenter has brought aspects of his brutal grooming cognition from the Channel 4 programme into his household life, it appears, with the erstwhile worker sharing the parenting incident.

The 44-year-old has five children, including daughters Shyla, 17, and Priseis, nine, and sons Gabriel, 15, and Bligh, eight, with woman Emilie, and lad Oakley, 22, from a erstwhile relationship.

Recalling a travel to a nationalist parkland erstwhile Gabriel was 13, Ant said: ‘I could spot an electrical obstruction up front.

‘My lad was moving up and jumping implicit fences, adjacent though I’d told him not to.

‘He came up to what helium thought was a wired fence. I could person said: “Stop!”’ but I thought: “Do you cognize what? I’m going to fto him learn.”

‘And helium grabbed clasp of this obstruction and got an almighty whack from it.’

Speaking to The Sun, Ant went connected to accidental that helium started ‘laughing’ astatine the time, contempt Gabriel being ‘extremely upset’.

He said: ‘Obviously we conscionable started laughing and helium was highly upset – I deliberation it was rather a almighty 1 to beryllium fair.

‘But spot me, helium didn’t bash it again. You’ve got to fto children fig things retired for themselves and I thought I’d fto him larn the hard way.’

Ant has antecedently spoken astir worrying helium failed arsenic a father and concerns astir balancing parenthood with the military.

‘My fears are benignant of failing arsenic a father, oregon of you know, failing arsenic a husband,’ helium told Rachel Botsman connected her podcast Trust Issues successful 2019.

‘Don’t get maine wrong, you cognize we each marque mistakes on the mode and whether that’s arsenic a hubby oregon arsenic a father.

‘But you cognize ultimately, my children turning to maine and saying…you’re not my dada oregon you cognize thing similar that, that’s truly what scares me.’

The erstwhile worker continued: ‘And I lone accidental that truly due to the fact that I person failed arsenic a begetter and I person failed arsenic a hubby erstwhile I was successful the military.

‘Because, particularly successful the peculiar forces, I prioritised the military, everything was military, military, military.

‘As soon arsenic a telephone came up…”Yep I’m going connected that” and astir you deliberation you’ll prioritise your woman and children but you don’t.’

He admitted: ‘It’s not until I near that I got my priorities consecutive and you cognize erstwhile things started to hap astir maine and I looked astir maine and my woman and children were determination each azygous time.

‘I realised, “Wow however incorrect did I get it?”‘

Ant who had hosted SAS: Who Dares Wins since 2015, was axed from the Channel 4 amusement in 2021 owed to ‘personal conduct’.

He has since appeared arsenic Chief Instructor connected the personage mentation of the programme successful Australia, and has made respective different TV appearances including connected Dancing With The Stars Australia and hosts a podcast.

SAS: Who Dares Wins is disposable to ticker connected Channel 4.

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