Mike’s Cash Up In Smoke

The Streets star Mike Skinner has admitted blowing his fortune on gambling. The rapper has splurged tens of thousands during boozy betting sessions – and has even been forced to remortgage his house to make ends meet.

The Streets’ Mike Skinner has confessed to wasting so much money on gambling he even had to remortgage his house.

The Brummie rapper says a heady cocktail of boozing and too much cash in his pocket saw him waste thousands of pounds.

Skinner, whose band recently scored a massive hit with Dry Your Eyes, told Time Out: “I was getting too drunk and betting too much money.”

“I was even getting into spread betting. It’s scary, I’ve lost a lot,” added the baby-faced rap star, who admitted to remortgaging his house at one stage.

Not that he’s too bothered though. Skinner is known to shun glitzy showbiz events in favour of a game of pool and a few jars down his local.

He added: “Hey, I’m a reasonably successful musician. I was bound to go through that at some stage.”

Both The Streets albums, Original Pirate Material and A Grand Don’t Come For Free, have been nominated for the coveted Mercury Music Prize in the past.

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