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Where is Simran Bhogal from ‘Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare’ now?
Netflix documentary Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare is streaming now, but where is Simran Bhogal now? Read on for all the info.The feature film follows on from the Tortoise podcast series of the same name and tells the story of Kirat Assi, who fell in love with a man named Bobby Jandu, who she met online in 2010.Assi spent much of the following decade immersed in an intense virtual relationship with Bobby, only for her perceptions to be devastated when she came to learn that the real identity of the man she was connected to was in fact Simran Bhogal, Assi’s own cousin.The success of the podcast led to an array of interest in telling Assi’s story on screen, and Kirat eventually agreed to a deal with Netflix.“It’s just sharing the story to a wider audience,” she explained about to Radio Times about her decision to agree to the film. “Lots of people don’t listen to podcasts and if this helps people to speak up [and] speak out, to fight for themselves a bit harder when it comes to not being believed, then that’s what matters.”Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare is streaming on Netflix now.As depicted in the documentary, Assi connected to the man claiming to be Bobby Jandu on social media after he sent her a friend request.