Jack Fincham has admitted he feels like a failure after blowing £1million pounds on drugs, booze and gambling.
The TV personality, 32, soared to fame after winning Love Island in 2018 with then-girlfriend Dani Dyer. But while her career has gone from strength-to-strength, Jack’s life hasn’t quite followed on the same successful path.
In a new interview, Jack – who was recently bailed from jail over his dog attacking a runner – opened up on how his life has spiralled thanks to his additions, which at one point saw him spent a whopping £40,000 in one day on online Blackjack.
Jack also detailed how he hit rock bottom as he attempted to take his own life last year by throwing himself off a hotel balcony.
Speaking to The Sun about the dark period in his life, Jack explained: ‘I feel like a failure, utterly mortified by the things I have done. I had the world at my feet and I screwed it up.
‘Embarrassed just doesn’t touch it. It is hideous. I cry when I think about how I’ve let people down. I have blown more than a million pounds thanks to drugs, booze and gambling.’
Jack Fincham has admitted he feels like a failure after blowing £1million pounds on drugs, booze and gambling
In a new interview, Jack – who was recently bailed from jail over his dog attacking a runner – opened up on how his life has spiralled thanks to his additions, which at one point saw him spent a whopping £40,000 in one day on online Blackjack
The TV personality, 32, soared to fame after winning Love Island in 2018 with then-girlfriend Dani Dyer . But while her career has gone from strength-to-strength, Jack’s life hasn’t quite followed on the same successful path
He added that finding fame on Love Island didn’t ruin his life, but instead he did so himself, before confessing that he was ‘an addict’.
Jack noted that drugs played a part in the breakdown of his relationship with Dani, remarking that his ‘priorities were wrong’ and he was a ‘bad boyfriend’.
Despite the great opportunities being on the show offered, Jack wished he ‘never been in the public eye’ and remained who he was beforehand, but was quick to not that destruction was ‘always in me’.
Indeed, things got so bad that at his lowest ebb, Jack attempted suicide after throwing himself off a balcony during a break to a West Midlands country hotel with TOWIE star girlfriend Chloe Brockett, 24.
The father-of-one recalled how he checked himself on IMDB [a TV and film database] while in the hotel room and seeing himself in 30 TV shows, realised he’d ‘messed up’ his life because he had ‘nothing to show’ for his fame.
Admitting that his addictions ‘destroyed everything’ after having the world at his feet, Jack began to order excessive amounts of booze from room service, knocking back the drinks one by one.
He also began gambling on his phone, and after wrongly believing he’d spent the last of his money, he began have thoughts that his life wasn’t worth living as he’d ‘had enough’.
As worried girlfriend Chloe headed downstairs to warn staff not to serve him anymore and to call an ambulance for fears he would kill himself, Jack jumped off the balcony.
Jack also detailed how he hit rock bottom as he attempted to take his own life last year by throwing himself off a hotel balcony
Speaking to The Sun about the dark period in his life, Jack explained: ‘I feel like a failure, utterly mortified by the things I have done. I had the world at my feet and I screwed it up’
![Jack noted that drugs played a part in the breakdown of his relationship with Dani, remarking that his 'priorities were wrong' and he was a 'bad boyfriend' [pictured together in 2019]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/02/08/23/95011843-14376417-image-a-70_1739056090899.jpg)
Jack noted that drugs played a part in the breakdown of his relationship with Dani, remarking that his ‘priorities were wrong’ and he was a ‘bad boyfriend’ [pictured together in 2019]
Looking back at the harrowing moment, Jack told the publication: ‘I remember weighing up the options, thinking, “I’ve nothing left to give here. Not a penny to my name. Nothing is salvageable.” We were in a hillside lodge and I jumped. If I’d have dived at a different angle, I may not be here today. That is scary.’
Jack survived the suicide attempt and was later taken away by the police to sober up, miraculously escaping with just a busted ankle that left him unable to walk for weeks.
Jack also noted the scary similarities to that of Liam Payne’s shock death a short time later, with the TV star noting: ‘It could have been me.’
Jack has since turned his life around, having consumed no drink or drugs at New Year’s for the first time in his adult life.
With the love and support of his family and girlfriend, he’s doing a degree in financial trading but has also been forced to return to selling stationary – the job he did before finding fame – as he’s now ‘worse off financially’ than before Love Island.
It comes after Jack opened up about his ‘testing time’ after he was freed on bail as he appeals his jail sentence for a dog attack.
The Love Island winner was jailed for six weeks after pleading guilty earlier this week after his Cane Corso mauled a runner in north Kent in 2022.
And Jack took to Instagram on Friday to share a video saying he ‘really appreciates the support’ from fans as he prepares to take on a boxing fight next month.
The reality star said he has a ‘lot of weight to lose’ before the face-off but the boxing match has come at the perfect time as he ‘needed something to focus on’ as he hinted at the difficulties.
Jack said: ‘I’ve been training really hard for my fight on March 1 at Harrow Leisure Centre in London, it’s been a bit of a testing time recently.
‘I’d really appreciate the support. A lot of weight to lose in a short amount of time but I’m really glad I took the fight because I really needed something to focus on.
‘Going forward this year there will be a lot going on with the boxing. I will be signing with Warren boxing management and start boxing professionally in England.
‘I’m not too sure I will be fighting in Dubai again.’
Earlier this week, Jack immediately lodged an appeal following his sentencing at Southend Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.
It comes after Jack opened up about his ‘testing time’ after he was freed on bail as he appeals his jail sentence for a dog attack
The Love Island winner was jailed for six weeks after pleading guilty earlier this week after his Cane Corso mauled a runner in north Kent in 2022
Fincham appeared at Southend-on-Sea Magistrates’ Court facing two counts of being in charge of a dangerously out-of-control dog on Wednesday
He appeared at Southend-on-Sea Magistrates’ Court facing two counts of being in charge of a dangerously out-of-control dog on Wednesday.
He pleaded guilty to the charges, which included a separate incident involving a woman occurring in Grays, Essex, in June 2024, although no injury was reported on that occasion.
The former TOWIE regular was sentenced to six weeks behind bars after the judge determined handing Fincham a further suspended sentence was not appropriate.
When the verdict was read out on Wednesday, his on-and-off girlfriend Chloe Brockett burst into tears and was ushered out of the court room by his relatives, who were also in attendance.
