GOGGLEBOX legends Pete and Lynne McGarry stepped in to settle a prisoner’s drug debt to "save his life". The Sun can reveal the pair got involved after receiving a call from their son George Gilbey who was behind bars for drink-driving.
He told them the life of the inmate, who Pete and Lynne had previously fostered, was in danger following a brutal attack in HMP Chelmsford.
George, 35, said: “His jaw was hanging off his face over a £20 drugs-debt which he’d managed to get saddled with. “I had to get involved.
I called mum and said ‘can you put twenty quid’ in his account’. "It sorted things out - but the next day he went and bought loads more.
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