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WE WEREN’T SHAGGING... WE WERE COOKING CHILLI!

Red-faced vicar caught naked with parishione­r

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A VICAR was caught half-naked with a married parishione­r by stunned worshipper­s... only for the pair to claim they had stripped after spilling CHILLI!

Volunteers at the Venue Church in Chattanoog­a, Tennessee, paid a surprise visit to Pastor Tavner Smith at his house but discovered the vicar, wearing only his boxers, with a married church worker in a towel.

The unnamed woman was married to another worker at the church. The vicar divorced his wife last year.

Video circulatin­g online is said to show the blonde woman, seen only from the rear, looking cosy with Smith at a local restaurant.

Dumb

Speaking of the chilli incident, an unnamed worshipper said: “I don’t think none of us was that dumb.

“If she dropped chilli on her clothes, why are you in your boxers? Was y’all like throwing chilli at each other?’

Rumours of the pastor’s alleged affair had been swirling for months.

Smith, who started Venue Church in a former Sam’s Club warehouse in 2012, was well-respected and had made a good name for himself and his family.

Multiple people had

By SUZIE SHELDON news@sundayspor­t.co.uk credited the church with turning their lives around.

But Smith is said to have begun spending more time with the co-worker in 2020 and surprised worshipper­s by getting a tattoo and a piercing.

One church member said she spoke to the pastor and the church employee and they both denied having an affair.

Then she received a video from another church member that showed Smith and the female employee sitting together before appearing to go in for a kiss.

The pastor has since announced on Instagram that he would be taking a ‘sabbatical’ in order to “fill up, spend time with God and get some counsellin­g”.

 ?? ?? COSY: Pastor Smith and church worker
DIVORCED: Smith and ex-wife
COSY: Pastor Smith and church worker DIVORCED: Smith and ex-wife

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