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Lily Waddell

Paedo weatherman Fred Talbot breaks cover to drink in pub after jail release

Paedophile TV weatherman Fred Talbot has broken his cover at a pub.

Shamed former This Morning presenter, 70, was spied having a pint in Little Bollington, Cheshire.

Eerily the pub was located just a mile from the school where he sexually abused his victims at Altrincham Grammar School for Boys.

The disgraced star was described as a "shadow of his former self" as he tried to chat to others in the pub.

A source told The Daily Star : “He looked a shadow of his former self. He was very thin, but his face is still unmistakable.

Paedo weatherman Fred Talbot breaks cover to drink in pub after jail release (Daily Star Sunday)

“He was drinking pints and trying to chat to a couple of people but they didn’t want to know.

"He was one of Britain’s most ­famous stars, but his career has ended in shame and now he just spends his time sitting in the pub.”

It's 10 months since Talbot was freed from behind bars in December last year (PA)

It's 10 months since Talbot was freed from behind bars in December last year.

The weatherman served less than half of his nine-year sentence before his release.

Shamed former This Morning presenter, 70, was spied having a pint in Little Bollington, Cheshire (Daily Star Sunday)

Talbot got five years behind bars for indecently assaulting two students in the 1970s and 1980s.

A further four years was added to the former biology teacher's sentence when it come to light he abused seven more children during school camping trips.

Eerily the pub was located just a mile from the school where he sexually abused his victims at Altrincham Grammar School for Boys (Daily Star Sunday)

In 2017, a 10th victim came forward and Talbot had eight months added to his prison sentence.

The teacher had made a career as a weatherman on TV before his crimes first come to light in 2015.

Talbot had starred as a weatherman for This Morning in 1988.

As well as This Morning, he branched out to reporting on regional feature series and ITV's breakfast show Daybreak.

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