FOOTBALL’S Andy Carroll has confirmed he was sexually assaulted by a star of BBC show Fame Academy.

Dance coach Kevin Adams was convicted at Chelmsford crown court in 2023 and jailed.

Carroll spoke out after being made aware that Adams’ name was in publicly available court documents. He said: “Now that Kevin Adams has been named in court documents as my abuser, I can confirm it.”

Carroll’s sex attacker brazenly tried to play the victim before he was jailed by a judge.

Dance instructor Adams assaulted the England ace, 37, as he slept naked.

Carroll woke and threw him out, knocking him unconscious when he tried to return.

Yet Adams then told police he had been hit for no reason. The judge told him later: “You spun a literally incredible tale in which you painted yourself as the victim. You’ve actually started to believe your own lies.”

Ex-Liverpool star Carroll bravely writes of the devastating 2019 attack in autobiography Owning It without naming his abuser.

Today the striker confirms it is Adams, who appeared as a coach on BBC1’s Fame Academy in 2002, and featured on Strictly It Takes Two in 2021.

In November 2023 Adams, now 59, was jailed for 20 months for the assault. Carroll spoke out after being made aware Adams’ name was in publicly-available court documents.

He told The Sun on Sunday:

“Now that Kevin Adams has been named in court documents as my abuser, I can confirm it. Hopefully now I can finally start to put this chapter behind me.

“I just ask that people don’t constantly share pictures of my abuser alongside me.

“I don’t want to keep seeing his face or being reminded of him every time this story is spoken about. I’m ready to move forward. This had a devastating impact on my life and loved ones.”

In his book, Carroll revealed how he had to give evidence in court, which he found “humiliating and horrendous”.

Before the case, his abuser ran the Kevin Adams Academy, a children’s dance school, in Harlow, Essex, which appears to have ceased operating in 2022.

In September 2023 he was found guilty of sexual assault at Chelmsford crown court.

After sentencing that November, Adams was put on the Sex Offender Register for ten years and banned from Carroll’s village.

Judge Mary Loram told Adams: “You spun a literally incredible tale in which you painted yourself as the victim.

“In your narrative, you were the put-upon reluctant friend doing no more than helping out. The end of your unbelievable tale was that you were the victim of the most serious sexual assaults yourself.

“However incredible your account, it seems to me that you’ve actually started to believe your own lies. I cannot find a realistic prospect of rehabilitation in your case.”

Details of Adams conviction were not published at the time and he maintained a social media presence showing his flashy lifestyle.

Before his conviction, Adams’ dance academy got Prince’s Trust funding and he shared a selfie with the future King Charles on its website.

The sex attack took place at Carroll’s home, during his second spell with his hometown club Newcastle. The player writes: “Other things I’d quite like to forget but can’t.

“Something happened to me a few years ago that was so traumatic I only decided to include it in this book at the very last minute.

“I was sexually assaulted, there I said it. Scary to even think about and only a few people knew about it before now. Me and (current partner) Lou Teasdale spent a lot of time discussing whether to mention it in this book or not.

“I avoided my publisher for so long that they probably suspected I got cold feet.

“Scary to talk about but it’s made me the person I am today as much as any of the good stuff.

And if me talking about it helps just one ­person then good, it will have been worth it.”

In the book Carroll describes his attacker without naming him: “He was always asking me and my ex to go out with him and even buys me clothes.

“He is divorced with kids but I can’t shift the feeling he likes me more than a platonic way. Whenever I bump into him at parties, he is always with young boys.”

Carroll, who won nine England caps, continues: “I was playing down South somewhere and on my way home this guy texts to ask what I am up to.

“When he texts again to ask if he can come round to watch the boxing, my partner tells me to stop pieing him off (putting him off).

“He takes over the kitchen, ­mixing drinks. “I start to feel light-headed and think has he slipped me something. ‘Right, time for bed,’ I say to him, ‘I’ll order you a taxi’. ‘Oh no,’ he says, ‘I’ll stay in the spare room’.

Carroll, currently at Dagenham & Redbridge FC, then says he awoke to the friend assaulting him, writing: “I sleep naked and when I wake up this guy is under the duvet.”

Carroll went on to “smack” him as he ordered him out the house.

He writes: “I smack him as hard as I can and he hits the deck.

“I grab hold of his feet and drag him out on the driveway. I go back inside, lock the door and call the police and the nanny. Then it suddenly occurs to me, what if I killed him?

“He regains consciousness just as the police turn up and immediately starts telling the police I hit him for no reason. As it is the police arrest him and I have to go to the station as well.’

He adds: “What happened to me affected every facet of my life. I’d think about it every day, making it difficult to focus on anything else, including football . . .

“The trauma of what happened to me hasn’t gone away.”

BBC talent show Fame Academy ran for two series in 2002 and 2003 and was hosted by Cat Deeley and Patrick Kielty.

The winner got a £1million recording contract, a London apartment, and a sports car. Tough-talking Adams was the dance coach, choreographer, and fitness instructor for the contestants.

And he judged their movement skills alongside vocal coaches ­Carrie and David Grant. —Sun.