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STRICTLY star Greg Rutherford may be a gold medal winning Olympian, but his early years were less than clean-cut. OLYMPIAN: Greg's life wasn't always so heroic The 29-year-old has revealed that as a 12-year-old, he would stay out to 5am drinking and smoking to rebel against his Jehovah's Witness parents. In his new book Unexpected: The Autobiography – serialised by The Sun – Greg said he grew up not being allowed to celebrate Christmas, Easter or Halloween, and wasn't even permitted to attend friends' birthday parties. And his religious parents would respond to anything "moderately bad" with smacking. DANCING SHOES: Greg is currently competing on Strictly Greg said: "Our house was a volatile place, with a lot of shouting and smacking. My parents would have blazing rows. "And far more often than I would have liked, I took the brunt of the fallout." The tense atmosphere led to future athlete Greg rebelling from the age of just 12, when he said that he would pull all-nighters with friends, breaking into abandoned offices and trespassing on industrial estates. Rutherford said: "We’d build a massive den, get drunk then wake up around 5am. Drinking, smoking, trespassing." DIFFICULT: Greg went off the rails as a young teen Greg also admitted to drinking Malibu in between classes as a teenager. Things came to a head on Greg's 23rd birthday when he got into a fistfight outside an Oceana nightclub after thugs hit his brother. However, he confessed that looking back at his dodgy decisions, he thinks he was a "complete d***", and added that his parents have completely changed. FAMILY MAN: Greg and his partner Susie have a two-year-old son The long-jump pro is now a father to two-year-old son Milo, who he shares with partner Susie Verrill. Greg is currently competing with professional partner Natalie Lowe on Strictly Come Dancing. http://www.dailystar.co.uk/strictly/556451/Strictly-Greg-Rutherford-drank-aged-12-rebelling-Jehovahs-Witness-parents