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Marco Pierre White Jr (born 24 May 1995) is a reality show participant and convicted criminal. He is the son of celebrity chef Marco Pierre White and his third wife, Mati Conejero. Following a turbulent upbringing before becoming a model and artist. In 2016, he appeared on the seventeenth series of Big Brother as a housemate, where his behaviour prompted 634 people to complain to Ofcom; he would later become the first male housemate to be evicted first on any British series of Big Brother. He was convicted of a number of criminal offenses between June 2016 and August 2022, culminating in him receiving several fines and being sentenced to 79 weeks in prison.
Biography
editWhite was born on 24 May 1995[1] and grew up in Chelsea, London.[2] He has one older brother, Luciano, a restaurateur,[3] one younger sister, Mirabelle,[4] a Royal Ballet School-trained ballerina.[5] and an older half-sister, Letitia, born from his father’s 1st marriage. His parents are Marco Pierre White and his third wife Matilde 'Mati' Conejero,[6] who married in April 2000.[4] Their relationship was tempestuous, and the pair separated in 2007 and again in 2012, having reconciled in 2011.[7][8][9] When White Jr was thirteen, he was first tattooed on a trip to Thailand to escape the media feeding frenzy his parents' marriage was receiving;[2] he later acquired a large selection of tattoos and became a model and an artist.[10] On 4 February 2016, Conejero was charged with assaulting White Jr and Luciano at the former's Chiswick High Road flat on 20 September 2015.[9][11][12] The district judge dismissed the case in July after White Jr was too hungover to attend court, Luciano could not be located, and neither admitted evidence.[12] In March 2016, White Jr announced that he had become engaged to Jessyca Hydleman;[6] they broke up later that month. By May, he had become engaged to Kim Melville-Smith.[13]
On 7 June 2016, White Jr became a housemate on the seventeenth series of Big Brother, entering the house alongside Andrew Tate, Laura Carter, Lateysha Grace, two twins, and thirteen other people.[14] Having claimed that he had a "hall pass" from Melville-Smith to cheat on her whilst on the programme,[15] and been previously ordered to keep his hands to himself by Big Brother,[16] he proceeded to put his hands down Carter's knickers, pull up her crop top, suck her nipple, and request she choke him with a belt, before having sex with her numerous times.[17][18] For this, MasterChef Australia judge Matt Preston used an appearance on The Kyle and Jackie O Show to suggest that White Jr had gone "off the rails",[18] Melville-Smith tweeted that by "hall pass" that she had not meant an open relationship,[19] Conejero wrote an opinion piece in The Mail on Sunday claiming that White Jr was "lost" and criticised Big Brother for "showing him as a sexual predator",[20] and 634 people complained to Ofcom, who later cleared the pair.[21] On 17 June, he became the first man to be evicted first on any UK series of Big Brother.[22][23] He used a subsequent appearance on This Morning to assert that he had broken up with Melville-Smith after objecting to her selling her story to The Sun,[24] and attributed his actions to boredom.[17] His father later used an interview with Event published in October 2016 to criticise the programme's production company for airing his son's sex scenes,[25] and the following May he joined Hell's Kitchen Australia in retaliation for remarks made by Preston.[26]
Shortly after leaving the Big Brother house, he was fined £525 for driving while under the influence of cocaine in April.[27] On 13 August 2016, White Jr was arrested after allegedly making unauthorised purchases on Carina Evans' credit card;[28] he admitted guilt on 23 November and was later sentenced.[29] In 2017, he brought out a line of sex toys,[30] and that September, he tweeted that he thought that users of the London Underground were "peasants" and later cited the Parsons Green train bombing as "why I don't take the tube #theRichDontDie", deleting the latter shortly afterwards and apologising for it.[31] In December 2018, he was accused of making racist and homophobic comments while drunk, for which he was convicted of common assault and fined £200.[32][33] In 2019, he was convicted in three different cases for stealing, failing to pay, and possession of drugs.[33][34][35] In August 2020, he was given a 32-week suspended sentence for two offences of possessing class A drugs, two of making off without payment, four public order offenses, and six offenses of theft, and was ordered to remain in his outbuilding between 7pm and 5:30am and wear an electronic tag.[36] Admissions of flouting his curfew, removing his tracker, and failing to make himself available to monitoring staff brought further fines.[36][37] In 2022, he pleaded guilty to seventeen offences between January 2021 and April 2022,[38] for this, he was sentenced to 47 weeks in prison, and his earlier 32 week suspended sentence activated.[38] He was sentenced to a further 41 weeks in prison in June 2024 for smashing into The Abbey Deli in Bath and making off with a champagne bottle and stealing £250 a month earlier; police caught him after his trousers fell down when he was escaping from a window, revealing his tattoos and backside to the site's CCTV cameras.[39]
References
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- ^ a b Cullen, Matt (2016-06-15). "Matt Preston sympathises with Marco Pierre White over off the rails son". Dailytelegraph.com.au. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
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