SPOTTY JOE: DAY BECAME BRAD PITT
Loaded teen was hit with girls
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JOE Cole says becoming a teen football sensation turned him from being a spotty kid into “Brad Pitt”. The midfielder hit the headlines when he signed for West Ham United aged 15 in 1998. He was reported to have been on £5,000 a week at the time but maintains now he was only getting “expenses”. However the then schoolboy revealed it made him a hit with the girls. He said: “I left school on Friday just a normal looking spotty 15-year-old – I turned up Monday as Brad Pitt.
“I remember it was in a Sunday paper.
“I was on the front page and it was people hammering me saying I’m earning more than the Prime Minister.
“And I was like: ‘Where’s all this money coming from, I haven’t seen nothing!’”
He added: “Going into school, that gave me a little look into what fame would be like because you walk back into school and everybody was looking at me. And everybody changed. When you get famous you don’t change but people change towards you.”
Joe, 38, who went on to have a glittering career with Chelsea and Liverpool, also revealed he got revenge on a teacher who was taunting him about his cash.
“He was like: ‘If anyone needs a lend of a few quid ask Joe, he’s on five grand a week.’
“So I said: ‘Yeah listen Sir, I’ve seen what you drive, if you need a few quid just give me a shout.’
“That just made him more and more angry.”