Kirsty Gallacher cleans up her act – and a charity shop – on community service after drink-drive shame
KIRSTY Gallacher appears to be cleaning up her act as she vacuums in a charity shop on community service.
The Sky Sports presenter, 41, who was caught three times over the drink-drive limit, was spotted helping out at a hospice’s store for two hours this week.
The mum of two was ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid community work after she was pulled over on the way to pick up her children.
Onlookers said she appeared to settle in quickly at the charity shop, which we are not naming.
The former Strictly Come Dancing contestant was seen running a vacuum cleaner around the floor as well as sorting donated clothes on a rack.
Other chores included steam- cleaning items in a storeroom and tidying various women’s dresses on display in the shop.
An onlooker near the store in Surrey said: “She looked handy with a Hoover and very much at home with sorting through clothes.”
Casually dressed in black with a green jacket and trainers, Kirsty appeared glum as she emerged from her shift on Tuesday.
The TV presenter was pulled over by cops after she was seen driving her BMW X4 erratically in Eton, Berks, on August 12.
Police smelt alcohol on her breath as she went to pick up her kids, aged seven and ten, in Windsor at 11am.
She failed a breath test after taking part in a heavy drinking session the night before.
Experts estimated she could have downed up to three bottles of wine to still be three times over the limit the next day.
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Kirsty, of Virginia Water, Surrey, admitted drink-driving and blamed the stress of her marriage breakdown with former rugby union star Paul Sampson.
Jennifer Dempster, defending, told magistrates in Slough that the defendant rarely drank.
She added: “This is, in many senses, unintentional drink-driving.”
Kirsty was banned from the road for two years in September.
Part of her community sentence was also to work in the charity shop, which collects for a hospice providing care for patients in central Surrey.
A spokesman for Kirsty did not wish to comment last night.
