Gogglebox star Giles Wood says he regrets shooting birds when he was a boy. 'As soon as I had done it, I regretted it. It is just a stage of beastliness that boys go through'
programme since 2015, are regarded as being one of the poshest families to take part in the reality show.
In his new book, Country Life: A Story of Peaks and Troughs, Giles reportedly writes about the shocking bird-shooting activity that he took part in during his younger years, saying that it was a ‘rite of passage’. ‘I did get an air rifle when I was about 12 and, having loved garden birds, I started shooting them,’ he penned.Giles noted that it was apparently regarded as a ‘rite of passage’ to ‘graduate from a catapult to an air rifle’.Recollecting the violent activity, he stated: ‘I am not proud of my short-lived cruel streak. But at the time I wanted to show my skill in downing small birds – starlings, wood pigeons – and I even shot a blackbird in my garden.
‘Almost as soon as I had done it, I regretted it. It is just a stage of beastliness that boys go through.’ Earlier this year, Gogglebox viewers were left stunned by an interaction between Giles and Mary on the programme, when they
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