BRITAIN’S Got Talent star Connie Talbot has revealed the horrific moment a stalker turned up at her house armed with weapons.
Connie, who was just six years old when she melted hearts on BGT, has revealed the man hounded her all the way from Germany.
Connie Talbot has spoken for the first time about her stalking hell[/caption]
The singer was six years old when she found fame on Britain’s Got Talent[/caption]
A stalker turned up at Connie’s house armed with ‘knives and pepper spray’[/caption]
The singer, 24, said she was only 13 when the stalker convinced himself he was in a relationship with her.
Things then took an even sinister turn when the fiend flew to the UK, armed with “pepper spray, ropes, knives and walkie talkies”, after working out where she lived.
Speaking in a new podcast, Connie lifted the lid on the terrifying moments her brother answered the door to him.
She told the People Are Deep podcast: “He somehow found out my home address and he came from Germany to my house with pepper spray, ropes, knives, walkie-talkies.
“He knocked on the door and my brother was there. He sent him on his way, we called the police, they couldn’t find him for days.
“They looked in every hotel, they couldn’t find where they were staying, it turned out he was camping in a park close to my house. He left walkie-talkies on the doorstep.”
Connie explained to podcast host Maryana Brown that she was first contacted by the man via Facebook when she was 13.
Given her young age, her parents managed her official page but she said she overheard them sounding “concerned”.
“It was a guy in Germany who thought we were in a relationship,” said Connie, who was a runner-up on BGT in 2007.
“These messages went on and on and on and we reported him to the police.
“They were inappropriate to send to a 13 year old child but there’s nothing the police can really do until they need to do something.”
Connie said the man was arrested after the incident at her house and was issued with a restraining order. She says he was also sentenced to four years behind bars in the UK.
But the nightmare wasn’t over for Connie.
When she turned 18, the man turned up again while she was on holiday with her boyfriend in Gran Canaria.
Terrifyingly, he sat down opposite her in a McDonald’s as she waited for her boyfriend to come out of the toilet.
Connie bravely revealed: “I’d just been on the Lorraine show and Lorraine said, ‘Oh, what are you doing for your 18th birthday?’ Naively I said I was going to Gran Canaria.”
The singer, who was on holiday for the first time without her parents, continued: “I came out [of the toilet] and my boyfriend was hiding from me as a joke. He was going to jump out at me.
“So I sat down at a table for two, as I thought he was still in the toilet and instead, the guy who has been stalking me for years, sat on the table for two in front of me.
“I just froze. I couldn’t actually believe it at first.
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“When he said, ‘My name is… do you remember me? My just heart sank and I just grabbed my boyfriend’s hand and just ran to the taxi rank.”
Connie said she stayed locked up in her hotel room for the next week while she waited for their return flight home.
The singer, who believes more should be done to help stalking victims, said her family have had to move house several times.
Connie’s mother also used to sleep with a baseball bat underneath her bed.
She said: “There’s not enough help to prepare people for this.
“I didn’t know whether to mention it because I didn’t want to give him anything more to feed on.
“This has been struggles the whole family has had to deal with.”
Shockingly, her stalker followed her there[/caption]
Connie, who appeared on Britain’s Got Talent: The Champions, had to move house[/caption]
