Jack Fincham hits back at Danny Dyer as feud explodes 6 years after split with Love Islander Dani
JACK Fincham and Danny Dyer’s feud has exploded once again six years after Jack’s split from Love Island girlfriend Dani Dyer.
Tensions flared after the actor made comments on a recent podcast claiming Jack wasn’t who he was on TV – reigniting long-standing friction between the pair.
Now, Jack has hit back at the Marching Powder actor, and tells The Sun: “I am just trying to move on with my life, I’m not sure why Danny a few times now has gave me a backhanded dig or insult, especially as I looked up to him and he has had his own struggles a lot worse than mine.”
Jack continued: “I would also add he is right I was different on telly as that was the real me, no drugs , no distractions just me living life, I let drugs and distractions and bad decisions change me back to who I didn’t want to be.
“But thank god I’m no longer the bad version of myself.”
A friend of Jack’s adds: “After Jack bravely opened up last month about his addiction and mental health issues it’s disappointing to hear Danny Dyer speaking about Jack, while promoting his film Marching Powder – in which he plays an addict called Jack who is facing time in jail.
“It’s all very close to home … Danny does a lot for men’s mental health charities so it seems like a low blow to hit Jack while he’s down.
“Danny has not been whiter than white in his past so why he feels he can be so judgmental is wild.”
TOUGH TIME
Brave Jack told The Sun in an emotional interview last month: “I feel like a failure, utterly mortified by the things I have done.
“I had the world at my feet and I screwed it up.
“Embarrassed just doesn’t touch it. It is hideous. I cry when I think about how I’ve let people down.
“I have blown more than a million pounds thanks to drugs, booze and gambling.
“Drugs helped my relationship with Dani fail. I was absent, my priorities were wrong, I wasn’t a great boyfriend. I am determined to change my future.
“There’s times I wish I’d never been in the public eye and just stayed exactly as I was. Destruction was always in me, but fame and money made it happen quicker.”
Jack finally started to turn his life around at the end of December.
He said: “My last drink was Christmas Day — just two Desperados. At New Year there was no drugs or booze for the first time in my adult life. That feels amazing.”
Jack and Dani won Love Island in 2018 but split less than a year after leaving the Majorca villa, with their break-up playing out in the public eye.
While both Dani and Jack have moved on with other partners, it seems her dad continues to stir up trouble.
The EastEnders star took a brutal swipe at Jack while admitting he hated Dani going on Love Island.
Speaking about Jack on the latest episode of podcast Table Manners with Jessie & Lennie Ware, Danny said: “I didn’t really meet him.
“To be honest with you, it turned out he wasn’t what he was on the telly.”
He went on: “If you think about you in a villa, it’s a structured show. There’s no phones, there’s no distractions.
“How real can you be? It’s only when you get out. And so look, they made a go of it. It didn’t work out.”
While in the villa in 2018, it was revealed Jack had a poster of actor Danny on his bedroom wall growing up.
But things turned sour when Danny previously hit out at Jack, who has struggled with addiction and was arrested on suspicion of drug-driving.
Speaking to The Sun at the time, actor Danny branded the pen salesman a “f*****g t**t” and gushed over “amazing man” Jarrod.
He said: “My Dani has bought home some f*****g t**t. Sitting at my table on a Sunday, eating my leg of lamb.
“You can’t tell your children who to fall in love with. You have to go with the the f*****g flow.
“And then she bought home Jarrod Bowen. I earned him. He is a real amazing man.
“So yeah… if all my dreams could come true… all I f*****g want is for a man – or woman, whatever – to worship the f*****g ground my daughter walks on.”
It comes at an already difficult time for Jack after being bailed from jail for his dog Elvis’ attack on a runner.
He was freed on bail while he appeals the sentence.
Jack was subject to a suspended sentence order when the attack happened – after he was caught speeding down the hard shoulder in a BMW while on cocaine.
The reality star turned boxer has spoken about his regrets and focusing on a brighter future.
He told his fans in a video last month: “I’ve been training really hard for my fight on March 1 at Harrow Leisure Centre in London.
“It’s been a bit of a testing time recently.”