Rev Richard Coles learning about spy brother through public inquiry into scandal
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. I’m A Celebrity star Reverend Richard Coles has opened up about his ‘spy brother’ just days after an inquiry into his sexual history with a teenager.
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The 62-year-old media personality, who has just returned from the Australian jungle where he landed third place, revealed the eyebrow-raising family link during his appearance on The Last Leg. When host Adam Hills started questioning Richard and The One Show star about whether they had ever met any spies, fellow guest Alex Jones joked that ‘Richard could be one’.
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‘Actually, my brother was a spy, he’s retired now,’ Richard replied, referring to his brother Andy Coles. When probed further by a shocked Alex, 47, he said: ‘Well actually he was a spy cop in the 1980s [which is] subject to an inquiry at the moment.’.
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The admission was met with shocked laughter as he continued: ‘I’ll tell you how you know your brother’s a spy. He’d turn up for Christmas in the sort of appearance of his undercover role which was not a bowtie in the casinos of Europe. ‘He had like shaggy hair and piercings. So that was a surprise.’ Richard later joked that he thought Andy was having an ‘early midlife crisis.’.
‘And who was he infiltrating then?’ Adam, 54, asked on the Channel 4 show, to which Richard replied: ‘I don’t think I’m quite at liberty to say.’. And when asked by Alex if he ‘had any gadgets like a watch that could kill’ Richard clarified that it wasn’t that sort of thing, before adding he was ‘put into various groups identified as potentially dangerous’.
