GARDENERS’ World presenter Adam Frost has revealed that he left home at 16 because his parents became swingers.
The 55-year-old BBC host said his parents moved into a village where “they were all swapping couples”.
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The garden designer told the Loose Ends podcast: “I’d been moved from London to Devon, and — someone’s not gonna like me saying this — but my mum and dad decided to do a swap with another couple.
“So they were all swapping couples, so I’ve gone, ‘Nah, it’s not really for me’.”
Frost, who has won seven gold medals at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, landed his first gardening job soon after.
He added: “I left home.
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“Got a bedsit, and was lucky enough to get a job on a parks department.
“And it was a real old parks department, so we did everything, we grew 200,000 bedding plants, you know.
“Sites of special interest, Victorian parks, you even had to dig a grave.”
In October Adam revealed he had been diagnosed with fibromyalgia.
He explained he’d experienced ‘throbbing’ pain for two decades before docs were able to diagnose him.
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