TV presenter Adrian Chiles has revealed ADHD once gave him the urge to throw wine in pundit Andy Townsend’s face
The SunSport columnist says he texted Townsend to talk over his “random as hell” feeling.
Adrian Chiles has explained how he discovered he had ADHD from a bookGetty
Chiles was able to talk over his unexpected wine-throwing urge with Andy Townsend, who he covered football with in ITV Sport for five yearsPA:Empics Sport
Chiles also explained how reading ‘Delivered From Distraction’ by Edward M Hallowell opened his eyes to having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
He told Gabby Logan‘s Mid Point podcast that the book transformed his awareness.
And after he showed three “cynical” people just two pages of it they immediately recognised he had the condition.
The West Brom fan strongly identified with a sentence from Hallowell’s guide that read: “Sometimes I’m talking to someone, I’m having a really nice conversation over a glass of wine, and I get this urge to throw the wine in their face.”
Chiles said: “I actually had exactly that and I think it was Andy Townsend. I just had to text him.
“I said, ‘Look, bear with me here. This is random as hell. I’ve just got to share it with you’. Andy, being lovely, we just talked about it.”
The ex-BBC One Show presenter, 56, added: “I mentioned this diagnosis to my PA, my younger daughter who was 16 at the time and a friend of mine, all three of them very cynical people and they all went ‘nah, b******s’.
“Then I showed them two pages from this book where it outlines the classic symptoms of ADHD and they all reacted the same, just closed the book and said ‘yeah, that’s you’.”
Chiles worked with Townsend on ITV Sport’s football coverage from 2010 to 2015.