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TV star Gok Wan braved a night at haunted Bodmin Jail in Cornwall, once the site of 55 executions. Nervous but excited, he later joked about his ghostly stay online.
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TV star Gok Wan gets chills ahead of stay at one of Britain’s most haunted and notorious prisons

NTK Journalist
Last updated: August 21, 2025 5:51 pm
NTK Journalist Published July 30, 2025
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Gok Wan at Bodmin Jail in Cornwall. (Jam Press/Gok Wan)
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TV star Gok Wan got the shakes ahead of a stay at one of Britain’s most haunted and notorious prisons.

The presenter and style guru spent the night at a hotel that used to be a prison.

And it’s said to be haunted by the ghosts of inmates who were hanged.

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Ahead of it, he revealed, ‘I’m not too sure how I feel about it, excited and slightly nervous, the cells are actually the hotel rooms’.

He was staying at Bodmin Jail, Cornwall.

It was built for King George III in 1779 by the prisoners of the Napoleonic Wars, as reported by Need To Know.

(Jam Press/Gok Wan)

And there were 55 prisoners executed by hanging there between 1785 and 1909.

Fans wished Gok luck for his night behind bars.

One person said: “I’ve ghost hunted here before it was a hotel…. have a safe night!”.

Social media comment on the post of TV star Gok Wan braved a night at haunted Bodmin Jail in Cornwall, once the site of 55 executions. Nervous but excited, he later joked about his ghostly stay online.
Social media comment on the post. (Picture: Jam Press)

Another added: “I worked there for the construction company who completed the job. Builders found human vertebrae under the hanging pit, and the temperature dropped as you walked through the prison into the ladies wing.”

And another said: “I’ve stayed there and never slept a wink.”

Despite his fears, Gok survived the night.

After his stay, he posted a jokey clip of himself in Bodmin prison stocks with a Cornish pasty in his mouth.

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(Jam Press/Gok Wan)

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