Strictly star Ore Oduba says he is ‘misplaced 1000’s’ as he opens up on 30-year porn dependancy

The pull of pornography has been testing Strictly Come Dancing champion Ore Oduba ever since he was a child.

Initially a TV presenter, recognized for his work on Newsround, BBC Breakfast and The One Present, Oduba’s star burned brightest in 2016 by clinching the Glitterball trophy within the ballroom alongside skilled dance companion Joanne Clifton.

However in a podcast interview presided over by Paul Carrick Brunson final 12 months, the 40-year-old revealed how his secret, ‘life-destroying’ dependancy to porn has come at a price.

Chatting on Brunson’s We Have to Discuss platform, it was revealed that Oduba’s spiral started three a long time in the past after he was uncovered to grownup imagery.

A number of months on from that dialogue, he is now told The Sunday Instances that he is ‘spent 1000’s’ of kilos on this sexually specific endeavour.

Requested by the publication if he helps any charities, Oduba namechecked intercourse dependancy entity The Bare Reality.

“They do unimaginable issues for individuals and their households,” he famous. “The explanation I spoke out is as a result of it is such a prevalent situation affecting so many individuals.

“I’ve spent 1000’s on pornography. It makes me burn that that is what our kids are inheriting and what we’re doing as adults is relinquishing our duty to control it.

“That is why I wished to spotlight the hazards of specific imagery on-line. It is so blindingly clearly as a problem, however only a few persons are prepared to speak about it.”

As for final 12 months’s revelations on the We Have to Discuss podcast, Oduba claimed that he was lastly in a position to ‘escape’ his dependancy firstly of 2024.

He advised Brunson, who seems in Celebs Go Relationship as an relationship coach: “9, that’s when my dependancy began, after I was launched to pornography, and I feel solely after every thing that has occurred, understanding how a lot of a thread that had been all through my life, was I lastly in a position to escape it.”

The TV star recounted being proven it by a good friend’s older brother, conceding that it had gone on to ‘destroying [his] life from the within out.’

“While I would not say dependancy set in instantly, the intrigue set in instantly and it did not take lengthy for that intrigue to start out operating my thoughts over.”

Oduba spoke about how he grew to become a ‘grasp masker’, hiding the dependancy from his household and primarily dwelling ‘two lives.’

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