A contestant on Take Me Out has been exposed as a £50-an-hour escort.
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Aaron Withers – who won a date on Saturday night’s (07.01.12) show – advertised his services on Platinum Select, a website with more than 5,000 escorts.
On the site Aaron – who kept his past hidden from bosses of the ITV1 dating show as well as its host Paddy McGuiness (pictured) – charges £50 an hour, £500 for an overnight visit or £1,500 for an entire weekend, pledging to either see customers at home or in their hotels.
He told the Daily Mirror: “It seemed like easy money to fund surf trips when I first came to London, just a bit of fun. I was really skint and needed to earn cash.”
“I didn’t have time to go on dates through the site and I certainly didn’t offer any more than that.”
As well as being an escort, it has also been revealed Aaron has a conviction for assaulting a woman and her boyfriend who mocked him about his height in a pub in June last year.
The tarmac worker pleaded guilty and was fined £200 and told to pay £50 compensation to both victims.
Last night an ITV spokesman blamed the show’s producer, TalkbackThames, for failing to weed him out.
TalkbackThames said: “We will review procedures.”
