Joel Dommett Dated Woman He Was Catfished With Post-Scandal

Joel Dommett has revisited a disturbing episode from 2016 when he became the target of a catfishing and extortion scheme. The material surfaced as his profile rose after appearing on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here.

What happened in 2016

He was contacted online by someone posing as a woman. The exchange moved to Skype and was recorded without his consent.

Blackmailers later demanded money, claiming to hold explicit images and video. He reported the case to police, but the perpetrators remained at large.

Finding the person in the photos

Dommett traced the profile image back to a real woman via online searches. She lived nearby, and he contacted her to warn about the fraudulent accounts.

The two met in person. They connected and went on dates for about six months.

A startling twist

In an unexpected development, Joel Dommett Dated Woman He Was Catfished With Post-Scandal and later resumed intimate contact with her online. She was half Russian and later returned to Russia.

The sequence of events left him bemused. He has described the story on Davina McCall’s Begin Again podcast.

Life since the scandal

Dommett married Hannah Cooper in 2019. The couple held a ceremony in Mykonos after three years of dating.

They became parents in 2023 to a son named Wilde Cooper-Dommett. Dommett has said he moved on from the episode and focused on family life.

Investigation and response

Police could not locate the catfish who orchestrated the extortion. Dommett took steps himself to identify and contact the woman whose image was misused.

The episode highlights risks of online contact and the difficulty of policing digital impersonation. It also underlines how public profiles can be targeted.