{"id":791774,"date":"2026-10-04T15:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791774\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T15:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:08:11","slug":"andy-carroll-names-former-bbc-fame-academy-coach-as-celebrity-who-sexually-assaulted-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791774\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Carroll names former BBC Fame Academy coach as celebrity who sexually assaulted him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former England footballer Andy Carroll has publicly identified the man who sexually assaulted him, after his name appeared in court documents.<\/p>\n

Carroll, 37, says Kevin Adams, a dance coach on the BBC talent show Fame Academy in 2002, attacked him while he was asleep at home. <\/p>\n

Adams, now 59, was convicted at Chelmsford Crown Court in 2023 and jailed for 20 months.<\/p>\n

The former Liverpool and Newcastle striker had not named Adams when he first revealed the assault in his autobiography, Owning It: In My Own Words.<\/p>\n

He said only a few people close to him knew what had happened before the book was published.<\/p>\n

After Adams was named in court filings, Carroll confirmed his identity to The Sun on Sunday.<\/p>\n

He said: “Now that Kevin Adams has been named in court documents as my abuser, I can confirm it.<\/p>\n

“Hopefully now I can finally start to put this chapter behind me.”<\/p>\n

Carroll also asked people not to circulate photographs of the pair together, saying he did not want to be confronted with reminders of the assault whenever the story was discussed.<\/p>\n

\"Kevin<\/p>\n

Kevin Adams was once a coach on BBC’s Fame Academy<\/p>\n

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“I don\u2019t want to keep seeing his face or being reminded of him every time this story is spoken about. I\u2019m ready to move forward. This had a devastating impact on my life and loved ones,” he said.<\/p>\n

Adams has since made his social media accounts private.<\/p>\n

Carroll gave evidence at Adams\u2019s trial, a process he described as “humiliating and horrendous”.<\/p>\n

The court heard Adams claimed he had been attacked without cause after Carroll woke during the assault and knocked him unconscious.<\/p>\n

Judge Mary Loram rejected Adams\u2019s account, accusing him of portraying himself as the victim.<\/p>\n

\"Andy<\/p>\n

Andy Carroll enjoyed a great career in football and represented England on nine occasions<\/p>\n

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She said: “You spun a literally incredible tale in which you painted yourself as the victim.<\/p>\n

“In your narrative, you were the put-upon reluctant friend doing no more than helping out.<\/p>\n

“The end of your unbelievable tale was that you were the victim of the most serious sexual assaults yourself.<\/p>\n

“However incredible your account, it seems to me that you\u2019ve actually started to believe your own lies.”<\/p>\n

She added she could see “no realistic prospect of rehabilitation” in Adams\u2019s case. <\/p>\n

He was also placed on the sex offenders register and banned from Carroll\u2019s village.<\/p>\n

In his memoir, Carroll described the assault as something he would “quite like to forget but can\u2019t”.<\/p>\n

He said he had decided only at the last minute to include it, after spending a long time discussing the decision with his partner, Lou Teasdale.<\/p>\n

“I was sexually assaulted; there I said it. Scary to even think about, and only a few people knew about it before now,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

Carroll recounted that Adams had often invited him and his former partner out and had bought him clothes.<\/p>\n

\"Andy<\/p>\n

Andy Carroll is currently player-manager of Dagenham and Redbridge<\/p>\n

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On the night of the assault, Adams texted to ask if he could come over to watch boxing.<\/p>\n

Carroll later began feeling light-headed after Adams had been mixing drinks in the kitchen.<\/p>\n

Carroll said he offered to call Adams a taxi, but Adams insisted on staying in the spare room.<\/p>\n

He wrote: “I sleep naked, and when I wake up, this guy is under the duvet.”<\/p>\n

Carroll said he ordered Adams out and hit him, knocking him to the floor.<\/p>\n

Police arrived after Adams regained consciousness, and Carroll said both men were taken to the station.<\/p>\n

The footballer said the assault had affected every part of his life and that he now thought about it every day, making it difficult to focus, even on football.<\/p>\n

“The trauma of what happened to me hasn\u2019t gone away,” he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England footballer Andy Carroll has publicly identified the man who sexually assaulted him, after his name appeared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[243,830,218,59,217,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-791774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bbc","tag-celebrity","tag-football","tag-gb","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}