Inside Holly Willoughby criminal Gavin Plumb's loner life – from fast food job to BBC show appearance

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A security guard, who has been found guilty of devising "graphic" plans to kidnap, rape and murder TV presenter Holly Willoughby, was once interviewed by the BBC over struggling to work due to his weight.

Gavin Plumb, 37, was found guilty unanimously by a jury on Thursday 4 July of soliciting murder and inciting rape and kidnap, with the jury dismissing his defence that his plans were a "mere fantasy".They agreed with the prosecution that he was a "prolific liar who sought to minimise the extent of his criminality".

The defendant adopted the user name Big Bear online to chat to others about his plot and appeared to begin his plans as early as 2011 - when he googled the phrase "how to meet people who plan to kidnap celebs".The jurors were taken through a "sequence of events" documents which detailed Plumb's "appalling messages" to others about what he would do to the Dancing On Ice presenter.

While Plumb's conviction has been covered widely by the media over the last few months, he has appeared on the BBC website before in a 2018 interview about the struggles of being obese.