Gogglebox star Mary Killen recently revealed she has picked up an “addiction” to vaping at 67.
The Channel 4 couch potato critic has appeared on screens alongside her husband Giles for 10 years. Despite being often regarded as ‘Gogglebox originals’, the idiosyncratic telly pair didn’t arrive into the show until the fifth series.
Since then, Giles and Mary have marked themselves out to be two of the show’s most memorable characters. But regular viewers may be surprised to learn Mary appears to have picked up a bad puffing habit. And that’s despite the face she’s “never been interested” in cigarettes.
Gogglebox Mary ‘takes up vaping’
What’s more, according to Mary herself, she’s admitted her “addiction is a problem”.
Writing for MailOnline, Mary explained she started vaping two years ago. She had her first experience of one after her friend’s son offered her a tug on his Juul.
“I loved inhaling the odourless air and blowing it out again. It just looked so chic and felt cooling in the palm of the hand,” she said.
James, the son of her friend, let Mary keep the vape she’d been sucking on. And Mary consequently found herself purchasing replacement pods when her supply ran down.
I reasoned that it would be good if I were to appear to have at least one addiction.
Mary, who also refrains from alcohol, told her readers: “”
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