CBB star George Gilbey arrives at court to face assault charge

George Gilbey, 34, arrives at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court in London this afternoon

A Gogglebox star threw a television and tried to strangle his ex-girlfriend in a drunken rage as she begged him not to kill her, a court heard today.

George Gilbey, 34, allegedly assaulted Gemma Conway at her flat in Twickenham, South West London, as their daughter slept upstairs.

The reality TV star, who has also appeared on Celebrity Big Brother, was also accused of causing around £400 worth of damage by throwing lamps, a TV and a baby gate at Miss Conway.

Gilbey, of Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, denies assault by beating and criminal damage.

Alex Ng, prosecuting, told Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court: ‘It’s an allegation of assault in a domestic setting.

‘Gemma Conway will tell the court how she had an argument with Mr Gilbey and was attacked by him by punching.

‘He damaged various domestic items, a baby gate, the television a lamp and other metal items. She called her mum. Officers arrived and the court can see pictures taken by officers of the injuries.’

Giving evidence, Miss Conway said she had been with the electrician for around two-and-a-half years.

Gogglebox star Gilbey (left) is accused of attacking his partner Gemma Conway (right)

Gogglebox star Gilbey (left) is accused of attacking his partner Gemma Conway (right)

She said: ‘We had previously lived together but the relationship wasn’t working. So I moved in to my own property and he was looking to move back into the area and had rented a room around the corner. He had only just moved in.  

‘He stayed in my flat for a couple of days while he was moving in. On March 16, essentially I never got to go out being a full time working mum.

‘I had invited a colleague back to my house. I picked up my daughter en route from the childminder and then another colleague from work, in my capacity as a teacher, came to join us. I wouldn’t class it as a party.

‘George had been at the pub before I think, drinking and watching the Cheltenham Races.’

Miss Conway (pictured today at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court) said she had been with the electrician for two-and-a-half years

Miss Conway (pictured today at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court) said she had been with the electrician for two-and-a-half years

The school teacher told magistrates that during the evening she left the flat to pick up a bottle of prosecco from a local supermarket. 

Gilbey had mentioned over text he would pop in to greet her friends, the court heard.

‘As I returned I heard George’s voice in the flat talking to my friends. I could see he was very drunk’, she said.

After a brief chat he left, Miss Conway claims, but on his way out said to her ‘you and my mum are finished’.

Miss Conway said: ‘I just said to my friends that he had made a nasty comment to me so I opened the door and went after him. I said “what did you say” and he told me to “f*** off”.’

The court heard that as her last friend left for the night, she bumped into Gilbey on the path leading into the property.

‘I closed the door and sat down in the front room on the sofa. Then when George came in. He wasn’t in for long when he dropped his bag and said ‘you are a f***ing b***h’. 

‘Then from that point on I remember I had my arms up and he started to attack me with various objects in the room. It can see no rhyme or reason why it happened. I do not know.’

The woman said the star was ‘glassy-eyed, stumbling and slurring his words’. She added: ‘He gets louder when he gets drunk and he gets very sweary.’

Gilbey, his mother Linda and her husband Pete became favourites with Gogglebox viewers

Gilbey, his mother Linda and her husband Pete became favourites with Gogglebox viewers

The court saw pictures of ‘strangulation marks’ on Miss Conway’s neck and bruising on her arms.

Images of the chaos allegedly caused by Gilbey in the flat showed a blood stained grey sofa with furniture and other belongings strewn across the room.

Miss Conway said: ‘My arms were very swollen and lumpy. The bruising and marking didn’t come out til a few days later. My arms went black. I was trapped on the corner of the sofa I couldn’t move my legs, they were going up in the foetal position.

‘He was just throwing things at me. At one point he had his hands around my threat. The whole time he was just calling me a f**ing b***h.’

Beginning to sob, she told the court: ‘It panicked me as I could feel the strangulation. When the TV came on me I thought “I’m in real trouble here”. I said to him “please don’t leave my baby without her mum”.’

Gilbey, whose daughter Miss Conway is turning two this month, is believed to have returned to his parent’s home after the incident earlier this year. The trial continues.  

The Gilbeys had forced to leave when he entered the Celebrity Big Brother house on Channel 5

The Gilbeys had forced to leave when he entered the Celebrity Big Brother house on Channel 5

Gilbey and Miss Conway met in 2015 at Royal Ascot in Berkshire and announced she was pregnant with their first child in February the next year.

Gilbey said at the time that becoming a father was ‘going to totally change my life and I can’t wait’.

Gilbey, his mother Linda and her husband Pete became instant favourites with Gogglebox viewers when they joined the show in September 2013.

But a year later they were forced to leave when Gilbey entered the Celebrity Big Brother house on rival Channel 5, which is deemed a rule breaker by producers.

Inside the house he became linked with Made in Chelsea star Stephanie Pratt, but he controversially later paired up with Edele Lynch after Pratt was evicted.

In 2016 the star admitted he blew most of his Celebrity Big Brother fee, losing £12,000 in one night at a casino, and was now working as an electrician again.  

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