Outlander star Sam Heughan bankrolled boxing business run by shamed actor
Outlander star Sam Heughan bankrolled boxing business run by shamed actor
OUTLANDER star Sam Heughan bankrolled a boxing business run by a shamed actor, we can reveal.
The screen hunk, 43, gave a £50,000 loan to Paul Donnelly’s firm BXNG Ltd — which is linked to a charity facing action from regulators.
Heughan provided his advance before concerns emerged about Donnelly’s conduct.
The pair appeared together in telly hit Outlander
The screen hunk gave a £50,000 loan to Paul Donnelly’s firm
We told previously how Donnelly, 46, had also come under fire over a debt collection outfit he’d been a director of, amid claims it had scammed business owners out of tens of thousands of pounds.
Now documents obtained by The Scottish Sun on Sunday show how he landed a cash boost from the telly series fave.
Both appear in the hit Starz time-travel drama, where Heughan plays hero Jamie Fraser while Donnelly has a minor role as former jailbird Ronnie Sinclair.
And they teamed up financially in 2021 around the time BXNG opened its gym in Milngavie, near Glasgow.
Heughan provided his advance before serious concerns emerged about Donnelly’s conduct.
A paper lodged at Companies House states: “The granting of a loan of £50,000 to the Company pursuant to a loan agreement entered into between the Company and Sam Heughan.”
Donnelly’s gym is also the base for the charity In Your Corner.
Founded in 2020, it has pledged to provide free boxing and self-defence classes for adults with mental health issues and survivors of domestic and gender-based violence.
But In Your Corner is facing the threat of being struck off for failing to provide financial information to the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR).
Their first set of accounts is now six months overdue.
After we approached Donnelly, he admitted Heughan had supported him and vowed to sort out his finances.
He said: “Firstly, Sam has been an extremely generous supporter of BXNG and the In Your Corner charity. We have been enormously grateful for his support.
“As a benefactor, he plays no active role in either BXNG or the charity.
“Therefore, he has received no payment or benefits and was only involved in helping a small business and local charity find its feet.”
Donnelly said In Your Corner’s overdue accounts would be filed within “a week or so”.
He added: “It has proved to be a complicated process but we want them filed as a matter of urgency to demonstrate we are a fully open and transparent organisation.
“And we are fully confident that, over time, we will be in a position to repay these loans in full.”
A charity’s failure to provide financial details means that OSCR officials are unable to assess whether it passes criteria to remain registered.
The new developments come two months after we revealed that another of Donnelly’s businesses was accused of conning clients.
Furious company owners told how they were “put through hell” after dealing with Vanguard Partners — a subsidiary of Caledonian Group Services Ltd, which listed Donnelly as its sole director from July 2018 until his resignation this February.
Juliette Thomas, 58, of London, signed an agreement for Vanguard to collect a debt of £49,747 before they charged her an extra £3,780 in alleged court fees in January 2021.
No documents were sent to say court proceedings had begun and she still doesn’t know whether the original debt was ever recovered.
We told in April how she later received the £3,780 fee back without any explanation.
The mum of four said: “Maybe Sam Heughan is unaware of all this.”
An OSCR spokesman said: “Communications with the charity are ongoing. We will not be commenting further during our inquiry process.”
Heughan’s representatives have been contacted for comment.
Quien con niños se acuesta, mojado se levanta, refrán español. Sam siempre esta apoyando a la gente cercana y parecia un buen proposito, con esas clases gratuitas a personas con problemas mentales y de violencia de género. Es una lastima ver como este tipo de "amistades" se aprovecha de su nombre y de su buen corazón y como un tabloide usa ese mismo nombre para conseguir clicks, aunque Sam no tenga nada que ver con los dudosos manejos del tipo en cuestión. Solo te recuerdo al impresentable de su chofer en OL, que consiguió un viaje pagado por fans a NY para el Dia del Tartan en 2016. Toda una sarta de aprovechados a su alrededor.🙄
Who goes to bed with children, gets up wet, Spanish proverb. Sam is always supporting people close to him and it seemed like a good idea, with those free classes for people with mental problems and gender violence. It's a shame to see how this type of "friends" takes advantage of his name and his good heart and how a tabloid uses that same name to get clicks, even though Sam has nothing to do with the dubious dealings of the guy in question. I only remind you of his unpresentable driver in OL, who got a trip paid for by fans to NY for Tartan Day in 2016. A whole string of profiteers around him.🙄
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