Billy Coull: Man behind Willy Wonka-inspired occasion in Glasgow tells how life has been ‘ruined’ | UK Information

The organiser of the notorious Willy Wonka-inspired expertise in Glasgow has advised of how he has misplaced the “love of his life” and his life has been “ruined” due to the occasion.

Billy Coull stated his life has been turned the wrong way up as a result of controversy surrounding the occasion and claimed he was made out to be the “face of all evil”.

Talking within the Channel 5 documentary Wonka: The Scandal That Rocked Britain, Mr Coull stated: “My life has been turned (the wrong way up). My life is ruined.”

He added: “Due to the whole lot that had occurred, it bumped into my private life.

“I’ve misplaced my mates. I’ve misplaced the love of my life. I used to be made out to be the face of all evil. And genuinely, that is actually not the case.”

Willy’s Chocolate Expertise gained viral notoriety after photos and movies of the occasion had been shared on-line.

The £35-a-ticket expertise on the metropolis’s Field Hub venue was bought as a “chocolate fantasy like by no means earlier than” the place “goals develop into actuality”.

As an alternative, households had been met with a near-empty venue embellished with a handful of Wonka-themed props and a small bouncy citadel.

Mother and father additionally advised of how their youngsters solely obtained a few sweets and 1 / 4 of a can of limeade.

Mr Coull claimed key visible gear for the occasion wasn’t delivered.

He stated: “I used to be gutted, however I believed that we may push on.”

The occasion was delivered to a halt on its opening day as mother and father demanded their a reimbursement from Mr Coull’s firm, Home of Illuminati.

Mr Coull stated it was “absolute chaos”, including: “It was absolute carnage.”

He advised the documentary he obtained tons of of nasty messages branding him a “villain or satan” and “saying that I am a horrific dad, I am higher off lifeless, I ought to kill myself”.

He was “devastated” over the response to the occasion and felt “sick to the pit” of his abdomen.

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Glasgow mum Maryanne McCormack, whose video of The Unknown scaring youngsters went viral, advised Sky Information she nonetheless hasn’t obtained her £75 refund.

Ms McCormack stated Mr Coull ought to discover a completely different solution to enhance his earnings.

She added: “He simply is not minimize out for what he is attempting to do. (He ought to cease this) for his personal good and his personal psychological well being.”

Performers on the occasion described it as a spot “the place goals went to die” and stated the scripts had been AI-generated.

Mr Coull claimed he wrote the scripts, however he ran them by means of AI to examine the spelling, grammar, and continuity on account of his dyslexia.

The performers themselves have since develop into web sensations.

Glasgow teenager Felicia, 16, who performed The Unknown, has been booked to scare youngsters at London Dungeon this Easter.

Saying her upcoming visitor look, she stated: “Who would have thought my wild Wonka expertise would have led me to this.”