Gino D’Acampo reveals drunk joke on Celebrity Juice cost him £20k in six year struggle

GINO D'ACAMPO has told however a drunken gag connected Celebrity Juice led to a precise costly mistake to the tune of £20,000.

The TV celebrity cook was jostled into changing his sanction to Sheffield, erstwhile helium was the squad skipper connected Leigh Francis' sheet show, which upset his Italian mother.

The 48-year-old agreed to spell on with the thought due to the fact that "I was drunk" - but it aboriginal outgo him a luck successful ineligible fees due to the fact that of question difficulties.

He said: "I was not successful a caput authorities which was normal, and I Iost the bet. I conscionable said it similar that, 'Yeah, yeah, whatever', not reasoning that those idiots would bring maine the portion of insubstantial for maine to motion and nonstop it off.

"So I had a nightmare for two, 3 years of passports, American visas."

He said his precocious parent was besides shocked erstwhile she recovered retired helium had enactment an English metropolis successful the mediate of his name.

Gino continued: "When she recovered retired that my sanction was not a beauteous Italian sanction immoderate more, but was Gino Sheffield D'Acampo, ohio my God."

Asked connected the White Wine Question Time podcast if it was similar having a tattoo, helium replied: "Worse than that, a tattoo, you tin screen it.

"I've got thing against Sheffield oregon the radical of Sheffield, but for a existent Italian to person Sheffield successful the mediate of his name. We had to person it removed for an American visa.

"I had this passport with Sheffield and each of that, and past I applied to spell for waivers erstwhile you spell to America and they didn't similar the fact. 'Why?' they were asking me.

"How americium I going to explicate to the American radical I was drunk. They couldn't get their heads astir wherefore would I enactment that successful 2 Italian names. So for them it was a spot dodgy.

"So I went to the lawyers and the lawyer said 'do everybody a favour, tin we delight spell backmost to your existent name'. This is however it happened, but six, 7 years later."

Asked if it proved costly to rectify, the 48-year-old Gino's Italian Escape star, said: "I would accidental knowing however overmuch does it outgo legal, with visas and worldly similar that, astir 20 grand, easy.

"But you cognize what, I wouldn't change. I person nary regrets successful my life. So I would bash it again."