After being deserted by his parents and living on the streets, TV show star ended up in jail. Now... MOSES FIGHTS BACK
ED GLEAVE SAS: Who Dares Wins finalist Moses Adeyemi has told how he was abandoned by his parents, lived on the streets for years and endured hell in prison.
Fans have seen the reformed criminal tackling nightmare challenges on the Channel 4 show. But his life before TV was even tougher.
Nigeria-born Moses said: “From birth both my parents left me. A few years later they parted ways, had more kids. I guess I’m only human, so I wonder ‘How come they never kept me’?”
Moses was brought up by his aunt before moving to the UK aged eight where he was taken in by a British family. He moved out at 16 and studied at college before getting a job.
But at 18 he ended up jobless and homeless and turned to crime.
He said: “After a few years I got caught and was found guilty of conspiracy to rob.”
Moses was sentenced to four years in prison in 2011 when he was 21.
He said: “I made a mistake but they locked me up with bad people for two years. And they expected me to come out good.”
Moses was released in 2013 on probation and was tempted to turn back to crime.
He added: “I came out of prison with a better understanding of a criminal’s mentality. It was easy for me to embrace all this world’s negativity. But I thought ‘Wait, I want to do more for my community’. So I changed my life and I started spreading positivity. I started personal training.”
Moses has since set up rehabilitation programme The Silver Line which aims to help ex-criminals and the unemployed through fitness.
Fans will see him face a hellish interrogation in tomorrow’s final of SAS: Who Dares Wins at 9pm on Channel 4.