A man's anger about Ant McPartlin being on TV has landed him in jail after he repeatedly called police to complain about the Geordie star hosting Britain's Got Talent.
David Kates-Lowick, from Wales, was sentenced to 19 weeks in prison after he made four calls to Dyfed-Powys police in three days.
Kates-Lowick's spell behind bars came after he took exception to Ant returning to front BGT alongside Dec, despite his drink driving conviction two years
Ant was given a 20 month driving ban and fined £86,000 after an accident in London in March 2018 and then, after being absent from I'm A Celebrity at the end of last year, returned to TV for the Britain's Got Talent auditions in early 2019.
And on Wednesday, a court heard that Kates-Lowick rang police and told operators he was upset that Ant could still drive and keep his job when others may have lost their livelihood.
According to The Sun, the prosecutor stated four calls were made to police over the three day period and the 57-year-old was under the influence of of prescription drugs when he made the calls.
Defence lawyer Owain Jones added that the calls, made to non-emergency number 101, suggested he had "significant mental health issues", amounting to "a plea for help."
Kates-Lowick admitted his calls were not a genuine police matter and breached his suspended sentence.
Court chairman David Subacchi activated ten weeks of Kates-Lowick's suspended sentence, and sentenced him to a further nine weeks in prison, to run consecutively, for the most recent offence.
Ant and Dec are back on screen on Saturday for the fourth semi-final of this year's BGT, with last week's result sparking no end of controversy, with some angry viewers even calling for the judges to be sacked over their decision.
