The One Show's Angela Scanlon spent night in Mexican prison after mishap

18.05.2022 - 12:01 / ok.co.uk

Angela Scanlon has revealed that she and her friend had to spend a night in a Mexican prison when they were younger.The One Show presenter, 38, and her friend had travelled to Mexico for a relaxing holiday, but things took a left turn after a passport mishap. Angela had used her sister's passport to get into the country, but had issues when she was trying to leave. Speaking to Alan Carr on his Life's A Beach podcast, she said: "I was in a Mexican prison.That's a whole other story.

"Yeah I was, I spent the night in the Mexican prison." The mum-of-two added: "I didn't just flash my t**s guys! I tried to enter into the UK... with my sister's expired passport which is actually illegal. "I just thought..

I didn't want to lose my own ID and I was under drinking age. "So I was like, 'I'll just bring Christine's passport'. Yeah turns out they check when you're on the way back in." Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter Angela also revealed that she convinced her friend to use an expired passport as well, causing her pal to spend the night in prison with her.

She said: "And I had persuaded my friend Deirdre to bring her expired passport as well. "So the two of us were banged up abroad. "The rest of the girls had to go on a Greyhound bus across the country, eight hours each way, to San Diego to get some cash, to come back and our passports, obviously." The presenter welcomed her second child – a daughter called Marnie Fae – in February this year.

Announcing the news on her Instagram, she wrote: "Marnie Fae Horgan. 11.2.22. "Chapped lips & chapped nips can only mean one thing… our little woman has arrived!! We are besotted x." Angela is also the proud mother of