LOVE Island star Scott Thomas has admitted he wasted £20,000 during his gambling addiction and used to pinch £20 notes from his nan's handbag.
The entrepreneur, 32, used to wait outside the bookies at 8am to try to win his money back after splurging his student loan at casinos the night before.
Speaking on his podcast Mancs on the Mic, with brothers Adam and Ryan, Scott said: When I was a student, I had a really bad gambling problem. "It really got hold of me, and no one knew how bad it was.
I was going out after student nights and ending up in a casino, losing thousands of pounds of my student loan and everything else. "The next day I would wake up at eight in the morning and wait outside the bookies on my own to try to win it back.
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