BRITAIN’S Got Talent bosses were left red-faced yesterday after wannabe Neil Horan was exposed as a religious zealot with a history of storming sporting events to get his fanatical message across.
Horan, 62, was defrocked as a priest more than a decade ago for preaching bizarre predictions of the end of the world.
And the oddball Irishman has had numerous brushes with the law, we can reveal.
He was given an Asbo in 2007 banning him from entering any of the areas of the London Marathon course.
Sporting events he has tried to wreck include the 2003 British Grand Prix and the 2004 Athens Olympics marathon, when he pushed the leading runner, Vanderlei de Lima, off the road.
Last year the crackpot sent a letter to fanatical Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, urging him to drop nuclear bombs on Israel.
In 2004 he was charged with indecency with a seven-year-old girl but was found not guilty.
Despite his shaky past he still appeared on Saturday’s talent show after bosses admitted they only check contestants at the semi-final stage.
A spokesperson for the ITV1 series said: “At no point during the filming did Neil show any other motivation to be at the auditions for anything other than dancing.”
From The Sun