Mum Thought I'd Been Beaten Up Over Drugs ; Xfm Dj Richard Bacon has Got His Life Back On Track Since Being Fired From Blue Peter for Taking Cocaine. So Why Was He Attacked by Two Strangers in a London Pub Toilet?

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WHEN Richard Bacon enters the Century Club on Shaftesbury Avenue I almost don't recognise him. His face, usually so boyish, is puffed and swollen, particularly beneath the eyes, where two semicircles of purplishblack have rapidly developed over the past few days. The skin on his cheeks has a yellowish hue, and his nose, clearly broken, is twice its normal size. His split lip is healing well, but his mouth still looks exceptionally tender. He points to the bruises all over his body: down the arms, the thighs; on his back, his chest, even the inside of his ankle.

Bacon, the DJ and former Blue Peter presenter, was beaten up in a pub toilet last week, in what sounds like a premeditated - and clearly vicious - attack by two men. Oddly, really oddly, this wasn't some beery scuffle in the small hours of the morning, but a broad-daylight assault not long after 7pm. To make matters worse, he has only just broken up with his girlfriend of seven-and- ahalfyears, but more of that later.

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Mum Thought I'd Been Beaten Up Over Drugs ; Xfm Dj Richard Bacon has Got His Life Back On Track Since Being Fired From Blue Peter for Taking Cocaine. So Why Was He Attacked by Two Strangers in a London Pub Toilet?

The assault happened in the Garrick pub on Charing Cross Road, where Bacon was celebrating his switch from Capital Radio's drive- time show to its equivalent on Xfm, and the end of his first broadcast for the latter station.

It was a pub he knew well. He and his colleagues at both Capital and Xfm are in the habit of winding down at the Garrick after coming off-air (so it's even possible the two men had watched his movements and knew he'd be...

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