Micah Richards told TV bosses that he had an early night in Las Vegas, but ended up partying until 8am.
The former Manchester City and Aston Villa star is now a popular pundit and was working for broadcaster CBS in Sin City on Super Bowl weekend, telling talkSPORT that he was only there to see Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift.
But despite starting work at 11am, 'Big Meeks' decided to take a walk down the strip at 1am where he started 'one of the best nights of his life'.
Speaking to Gary Lineker on The Rest Is Football podcast, Richards said: «I am with [former Arsenal striker Thierry] Henry, [host Kate] Abdo, the producers and everyone knows what Big Meeks is like — I like to get in a little bit of trouble every now and again.
»I just thought 'do I keep it professional and stay in or do I go for a little wander'?
«So it's about 1am in the morning, I go for a little wander down the strip. We're staying in the Virgin Hotels. One of my old mates is staying at the Wynn. I go there and have a few drinks.»
Richards, who works for the broadcaster on European football nights, was there to promote the channel's coverage given it was broadcasting the event on America's sporting calender.
«It's then 4 or 5am in the morning in the morning and I am thinking to myself 'we have got media at 11am'. What do I do here?»
It's only light stuff, we're talking about the Champions League, promoting that and then the Super Bowl."
Richards continued: «And then we went to a place, I'm not naming no places but wowsers. Gary, do you want me to spell it out for you? The scenery was like… Oh my god.
»So bare in mind we have got to go to media in the morning. And everybody thinks I have gone to sleep. And you know Big Meeks isn't going to sleep at that time.
«So
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