SOAP star Adam Rickitt has been banned from the roads for drink driving after he was caught making a 650-yard trip home by car to grab a takeaway dinner with his TV presenter wife.
The former Hollyoaks and Coronation Street actor, 42, had been working late and drinking in a wine bar he runs - but was summoned back in a phone call from GMB's Kate Fawcett who had ordered the meal.
Police stopped his Skoda Yeti car as he collected the food less than 450 yards away from his Dexter and Jones bar, in Knutsford, Cheshire.
Traffic officers breathalysed him and tests found he was more than twice the alcohol limit having earlier drunk two gins and a rum shot whilst at work.
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