Joel Dommett has revealed the bizarre turn of events that happened after he was filmed having sex online and fell victim to a catfishing scam.
In 2016, it came to light that the comedian, 40, had engaged in virtual sex years before after being contacted by someone he thought was a woman on social media.
However, the ‘woman’ was a catfish and later attempted to extort money from him, claiming to have photos and video of him masturbating on Skype.
The incident hit headlines 10 years ago when Joel’s fame soared as he appeared on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here and the photos leaked. He tried to find the person behind the catfish and even alerted the police, but was unable to track them down.
He was, however, able to find the woman whose photo was being used in the scam without her consent or knowledge, and the two actually went on to date each other.
Detailing the incident through laughs on Davina McCall’s podcast Begin Again, Joel said: ‘I was single, I was contacted on Twitter by some person. They were attractive…,’ adding that the virtual sex began 15 minutes later.
‘I remember doing it and being like that was weird,’ he told Davina.
Joel, who has been married to wife Hannah Cooper since 2019, continued: ‘Again, fair play to them, because they sort of, they saw something in me that they were like, I think this guy’s going to be on telly. And so they did it and then they banked it and then they waited years before they released it.’
‘They contacted me and went “give us money, we’ve got these pictures”… Fully naked and with a beanie on. Take the beanie off… And, there was no doubt that it was me because I had a massive poster of me behind my head…’
He added: ‘So this person messages me. We have Skype sex. I figured out it’s a catfish. It’s all fake. They’ve got a video of me. I’m like, oh, God. Oh, God.’
With the police unable to find the person behind it all, Joel takes matters into his own hands and searches for the photo being used to catfish him in Google. He manages to find the real woman who was also a victim of the scam and he alerts her to the fact her face is being used to trick people online.
Sharing her response, Joel revealed: ‘They’re like, oh, yeah, it’s been happening a few times. I tell them to take them down and they come back up and blah, blah. And I mean, just out of interest, this is going to sound weird, I would love to just get a photo with you…
‘So I’ve got something for a show. I was like, “where do you live?” Which is a creepy thing to say to anyone and she went “I live in Greenwich” and I lived in Brockley at the time, which is literally like a mile down the road, right?…’
Sharing the bizarre twist of fate, Joel continued: ‘I was like, “I live in Brockley. We have to meet up…” So we met up and I meet this girl in Greenwich and again I didn’t even realise it at that point, but it’s a date. We get on really well, we go on another date, and actually we get on well and we end up dating for like six months…
‘So I ended up dating the person whose face I thought I was masturbating to in the first place. And then this is the mad part, she’s half Russian, she moves back to Russia, I then have Skype sex with her. How mental is that?’
Fortunately, Joel was able to move past the controversy and went on to marry wife Hannah, 37, in 2019 with a stunning Mykonos wedding after three years of dating. They are parents to son Wilde Cooper-Dommett who they welcomed in 2023.
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