Adrian Chiles wanted to throw wine in Andy Townsend’s face due to ADHD

Adrian Chiles once had an "urge" to throw wine in Andy Townsend’s face.

The TV presenter has told how he once felt he wanted to douse his ex ITV Sport colleague, 58, in a glass of the alcohol, and blames it on Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - a condition that affects people's behaviour - but the former footballer was really good-natured about Adrian's urge.

The 56-year-old broadcaster told Gabby Logan on her ‘Mid Point’ podcast: "Sometimes I’m talking to someone, I’m having a really nice conversation over a glass of wine, and I get this urge to throw the wine in their face.

"I actually had exactly that and I think it was Andy Townsend. I just had to text him.

"I said, ‘Look, bear with me here. This is random as hell. I’ve just got to share it with you’. Andy, being lovely, we just talked about it."

Adrian first thought he could have ADHD after he read ‘Delivered From Distraction’ by Edward M Hallowell, and it only took showing three “cynical” confidants excerpts from the tome to be convinced he had it.

He said: "I mentioned this diagnosis to my PA, my younger daughter - who was 16 at the time - and a friend of mine, all three of them very cynical people and they all went, 'Nah, b*******.'

"Then I showed them two pages from this book where it outlines the classic symptoms of ADHD and they all reacted the same, just closed the book and said, 'Yeah, that's you.' "

The former ‘The One Show’ presenter has also explored his excessive drinking - which can be another way ADHD manifests - in many different avenues, such as BBC documentary ‘Drinkers Like Me’ and his book, ‘The Good Drinker’.

Adrian told the Yorkshire Post newspaper: “At the time, one of the show’s I did was late Thursday night, so obviously I wouldn’t drink on those nights, but every other day of that week I’d have a drink.

"And I couldn’t remember the last day that I didn’t have a drink, apart from those Thursday nights. I thought there’s something wrong here.”