Richard Bacon has spoken of his horror after Amazon ‘s Alexa began telling his kids about his past riddled with cocaine use.
The 44-year-old former Blue Peter star was famously booted off the kids show in 1998 after admitting to taking coke, which is classed as a Class A drug.
Since then, the Good Morning Britain star has gone on to marry marketing manager Rebecca McFarlane in 2008 and the pair moved to Los Angeles to start a family.
They have have two children together – eight-year-old son, Arthur, and six-year-old daughter, Ivy.
Richard recalled how the kids were curious to know more about their father so asked Alexa who he was.
Richard Bacon said Alexa started telling his kids about his cocaine past (Image: Richard Bacon/Instagram)
But Richard said the machine then started to read out from Google about his drug past and he had to rapidly shut it down.
Recounting the incident and his horror, Richard told The Sun: “I am sitting in a room in my house in Los Angeles and there is one of those Amazon Alexas next to me and my kids said, ‘Oh Alexa, who is Richard Bacon?’
“And it comes up straight away, ‘Richard Bacon is an English television presenter. He was fired from Blue Peter in 1998 for taking…'”
He was sacked from Blue Peter in 1998 (Image: GETTY)
Richard continued: “I jumped in and said, ‘Alexa stop. Stop’. They said, ‘What are you saying stop for? Why did you get fired?’. And then they asked again.”
The star then went on to share his disbelief that it is still what he is remembered for on Google 22 years later.
At the time, Richard publicly confessed to taking cocaine in a London night club.
Richard now lives in America with his kids and wife Rebecca (Image: Richard Bacon/Instagram)
He returned to the show in 2018 for the 60th anniversary of Blue Peter.
Taking to Twitter at the time, Richard said: “I’ve hosted a lot of shows in a lot of places.
“And yet the one I have the most affection for is the one I got fired from. Happy Birthday Blue Peter. I love you.”
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
