The View frontman Kyle Falconer has been left penniless after being hit with a £25,000 bill for an air rage incident last year.
Despite scoring a number one album with the band’s debut, Hats of to the Buskers, in 2007, members of the singer’s family have had to help him pay the bill to airline Jet 2.
The singer squared up to a fellow passenger and made homophobic remarks to a male flight attendant on the flight from Reus Airport near Barcelona to Glasgow Airport.
The 30-year-old lost his temper after being made to sit apart from his fiancee Laura Wylde.
He shouted and swore when asked to behave – before calling a male cabin crew member “a p**f.”
The flight had to be diverted to France to have Falconer removed, at a cost of £14,000 in extra fuel costs, compensation for passengers who missed connecting flights by the two-hour diversion and other airport costs.
Falconer has also had to cough up nearly £9,000 in legal fees and has now been hit with a £1,000 fine over his antics.
The details emerged at Paisley Sheriff Court when Falconer, of Lochee, admitted behaving “in a threatening or abusive manner which was likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm” by shouting, swearing, acting aggressively towards other passengers and uttering a homophobic remark on June 17, 2016.
Claims he had threatened other passengers while in possession of two bottles were deleted from the charge as part of a plea deal.
Defence solicitor Ian Houston said The View made little money from their successes and the whole air rage affair had cost Falconer £25,000.
He added: “He is deeply ashamed of this, especially the homophobic remark, given he has friends and relatives who are gay. He just wants to get on with the rest of his life.”
As he fined Falconer £1,000, Sheriff David Pender said: “An offence of this type in the confines of an aircraft cabin must be very, very distressing to those affected by it.”
