FORMER World’s Strongest Man Eddie Hall has slammed “stalkers who harassed” him for 18 minutes after a furious row went viral.
The 37-year-old beefcake has responded to a social media storm after footage came out showing him in a heated spat with two “stalkers.”
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He was filmed confronting two motorists who turned up at his house, in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Eddie admitted that the footage, which racked up a million views within a couple of hours, “looks bad” but said he was keen to give the context behind it.
He explained: “It was 9pm on a bank holiday Monday, we had a lovely weekend, and these people come decide to ruin it for everybody.”
In the YouTube video Eddie shows CCTV which appears to look like three blacked-out cars parked up outside his property, with driver who hopped out his car and peered into the house.
CCTV then shows Eddie’s wife, Alexandra Hall, walking towards the cars with a dog.
“Three cars with blacked out windows came to my home, beeping horns, revving engines, very loud exhaust, and sat there for a total of 10 minutes before Alex went out and told them to go – very politely,” Eddie said.
“They then moved from one side of my driveway to the other side of my driveway and stayed there for a further seven minutes.”
After her first attempt, doorbell footage then shows Alex’s second interaction with the drivers.
One woman in the car shouted “it’s a public path, we can do what we want” to which Alex responded “yes, I know but you’re sitting outside our gates like a weirdo, love – move on.”
The woman then insists: “No, we’ll stay.”
Eddie then took it upon himself to ask the drivers to leave and faced the driver who said he “just wanted to get a picture with his kid.”
At the start of the viral clip posted on social media, the person filming the video is heard saying: “He’s just scared me daughter.”
The driver supposedly told the strongman he was upsetting their children, to which Eddie responded: “I couldn’t give a f**k, what about my kids?”
He then said what caused him to “see red” was that the driver allegedly told Eddie: “I’m gonna knock you the f*** out.”
In the clip, the 6ft 3in, 26 stone giant is seen screaming obscenities into the open window of one of the cars, before running at another motor, trying to grab the driver.
A young child can be heard screaming in the background as the driver speeds off.
Eddie can then be seen shouting at another motorist in the car behind, saying: “F**k off, or I’ll f**king do you all, f**k off.”
In the YouTube video he later added: “You want me to respect your children’s emotions, respect my children’s emotions.”
As the motorist tried to drive away, Eddie gives chase, shouting: “Hey, hey, get out, get out you f**ing pr**k.
“I’ll f**king rip your head, I’ll twist your f**ing head off. All of you get out, I’ll rip your f**king head off.”
He said in the YouTube clip that he’d spotted someone recording and ran towards to grab the phone “just to throw it in a bush or something.”
Raging Eddie is then seen sprinting towards the man filming, when his Crocs fell off, before the motorist speeds off in a BMW, his daughter crying in the back seat.
The footage was later posted to one of the drivers Facebook accounts.
They wrote: “Big Eddie Hall coming smashing our cars and punching me in the jaw and scaring the kids for no reason and damaging the cars.
“We were nowhere near the house.
“Went to a local pub to Eddie Hall for my cousins 10th birthday in hopes to catch him there then we took to show him where Eddie lives.
“What a way to ruin a 10-year-old’s birthday.
“Not to mention the stress caused to my missus who is 37 weeks pregnant.”
Eddie denies punching the driver in the jaw and insists he “did not touch the guy” or their cars.
The strongman explained: “If I’d have hit that guy in the jaw I think he would have said ‘ow.'”
Fans of Eddie were quick to express their reaction to his YouTube video titled DON’T VISIT MY HOUSE.
One responded: “People forget that celebrities are humans too.
“You’d be fuming if people were doing this at your home – good on you Eddie.”
Another agreed: ” When random people show up at your home, act disrespectfully, and even have the nerve to shout ‘no, we’re staying’ after your wife kindly asked them to leave – that’s just beyond rude.”
A third commented: “It’s actually sad that Eddie has to clear his name just because this bunch thinks Eddie’s house is some kind of an amusement park.”
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