FRANKIE Cocozza has claimed that he was offered a £1,100 cash bribe to kiss former Geordie Shore star Holly Hagan on a wild night out.
The 29-year-old, who was infamously kicked off The X Factor for discussing cocaine more than a decade ago, has dished the dirt on Holly – and he hasn’t held back.
Appearing on The James Smith Podcast last week, the Celebrity Big Brother runner-up claimed their relationship was set up for publicity – and he even made a pretty penny from it.
He revealed: “Anyway, this lovely girl, and she is lovely, she’s a sweetheart and she goes, ‘Oh Frank, I’ve just been talking to my manager and, basically, he’s willing to give you £1500 in cash if we can have a photo outside getting off with each other’.
“Are you winding me up? This is after week one on the X Factor. I haven’t earned a penny, right? £1500 was like, f***ing hell, mindblowing.”
Frankie then recalled how he was given just over a grand in cash by Holly’s agent before the pair were snapped kissing up against a wall.
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He added: “Go outside, this little ratty geezer turns up in this s****y little motor, he goes, ‘Here you go, I’ve only got £1100. I’ll give you £400 in a cheque’.
“The cheque bounced, may I add. It didn’t work. Another story. He’s like, ‘Go and stand over there’ and he’s literally standing behind his car door taking photos of us and I’m just necking off with her, against a wall, in the middle of London.”
The Celeb Report has contacted Holly’s representatives for comment.
After their coming together, Frankie appeared on The Xtra Factor as he described his one night stand with the MTV star.
Asked by hosts Olly Murs and the late Caroline Flack what had happened, Frankie crudely replied: “I met her and I banged her.”
Realising he may have pushed the boundaries on the ITV show with the comment, Frankie put his hand to his mouth and said: “Sorry, I shouldn’t have said that.”
These days, Frankie – who claimed to have slept with hundreds of women – is all but unrecognisable.
He’s chopped back his famously shaggy hair, become a dad and settled down in Australia.
Frankie, who had the names of no fewer than seven former conquests tattooed on his bum, is even now a doting husband.
He and stunning Bianca, who married in 2018, often post pictures of their life in Sydney or on the beaches of Australia’s Sunshine Coast.
In 2019, the couple welcomed a son, also called Frankie Cocozza, who has the same long haircut that became his dad’s signature look.
