Ashley Cain Fired for Drunken Behavior on Set

Ashley Cain was secretly sacked from a job last year for being drunk on set before being replaced by another presenter, a new report claims.

The former star, 35, apparently concerned producers with his conduct while filming Sin City: The Real over in the U.S.

Ashley's ex Safiyya Vorajee previously revealed that she split with him due to his struggles with alcohol following the death of their baby daughter Azaylia.

Ashley is already under fire this week after historic tweets - from around 10 years ago - exposed the degrading comments he had made about women.

Now he is facing new allegations about how he was quietly removed from the BBC documentary last June for being drunk while filming the project. 

According to The Guardian, Ashley flew out to to work on Sin City, but concerns were raised by staff about his behaviour.

Ashley had since begun working on the second series of his show Into The Danger Zone with the BBC, however that has reportedly now been shelved after his misogynistic tweets came to light.

The BBC told the publication they had no plans to work with Ashley again in the future and admitted their 'vetting' process before hiring talent had 'failed'.

The spokesperson said: 'The posts by Ashley Cain, albeit from many years ago, are completely unacceptable.'

'The BBC has clear requirements around vetting and social media checks, which are undertaken by the production company. In this instance, the process clearly failed and we are investigating why. We are continuing to strengthen our processes to ensure everyone working for, and on behalf of, the BBC meets our values and standards.'

'We have no plans to broadcast the new series of 'Into the Danger Zone', and no future projects with Ashley Cain.'

The Daily Mail contacted representatives for Ashley Cain and the BBC for comment.

In June last year, Safiyya claimed the former couple split because he turned to  following the death of their baby daughter Azaylia.

Television personality Ashley and his ex partner Safiyya, 37, after she battled a rare form of . 

Azaylia was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and had tumours on her lungs, stomach and kidneys.

She was given several rounds of chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant at Children's Hospital but sadly died on April 24, 2021.

Safiyya said both she and Ashley struggled with their grief, however he started to 'drink quite a lot' causing them to separate. 

Speaking to Paul C Brunson on his We Need To Talk podcast, she said that she 'waited for him' to navigate his grief but it became too much for her. 

Safiyya said: 'I was like let's ride through this together and he had his own protective armour around him and the feelings and pain he was in, he couldn't navigate it.

'I kind of waited for him but he ended up drinking quite a lot and going down that road. 

'I'm not someone who really drinks and I needed him but he needed to be by himself.  There is no right and wrong with grief.'

Elsewhere in the chat, Safiyya revealed she gave Ashley a 90 day trial to step away from boozing when they first got together romantically. 

At the time, Ashley was doing club appearances and DJing but Safiyya said the only way their relationship would work was if he came home afterwards instead of partying into the early hours. 

She explained: 'I said show me the man I want, I gave him the 90 day test. It was just slowing down the pace of going out and partying, so like go to work, get paid and come home because he used to party after. 

'I was like show me but if you don't want to, that is fine, but he passed the test with flying colours'. 

This week it was revealed the have removed planned repeats of Ashley's Into The Danger Zone after the misogynistic tweets resurfaced. 

The broadcaster said they were taking 'allegations seriously' after a new investigation revealed historic tweets on Ashley's online platform calling women 's**gs', 's**ts' and 'psychos'. 

The Guardian revealed the series of tweets in which he refers to women in abusive terms, making jokes about hitting women and degrading sexual practices.

He also sent female users abusive messages with offensive sexualised language.

Following the investigation, the BBC swiftly pulled repeat episodes from series one of the documentary that had been due to air next week. 

A BBC spokesperson told Daily Mail: 'We are very clear we expect the highest standards of behaviour from everyone who works with or for the BBC. 

'When allegations are brought to our attention we take them seriously. We will consider this information carefully and do not intend to comment further at this stage.'

Ashley presented the BBC Three documentary series into the Danger Zone, which sees the star travel across the world to the most dangerous places and interview young men who live on the fringes of society.

The second series was filmed earlier this year but has not been scheduled for release at this stage. 

The investigation revealed that in 2014, in response to a since-deleted tweet he claimed to be homophobic, he tweeted that one female user should 'go and choke on a c*** you s**t'.

To another female user in 2015 he wrote: 'The only thing that's desperate around here is your pictures with your s**t t*ts. Now suck a d***, and f*** off.'

The publication stated there were a dozen other similar posts. However on Wednesday night his X account was removed from the platform. 

In 2015, Ashley was accused of recording Rachel Roftis, 33, during sex and sharing clips to Snapchat without her consent. He strongly denied this. 

The pair met at a club in Bexleyheath before spending the night together in a hotel.

She told The Guardian she 'screamed' at Cain when she realised the footage had been shared and said the incident has 'massively affected her relationships with men. She doesn’t trust anybody really now.'

Ashley's career began as a winger in the Football League before he turned to reality television and high-profile charity fundraising.

Between 2014-2015 he appeared on MTV's Ex On The Beach, where he said: 'you can’t turn a h*e into a housewife'. 

He also competed on Celebrity MasterChef in 2025, reaching the semi-final and also starred on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. 

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