
On 9 October 2025, former Big Brother contestant Simone Reed, 36, was jailed for 32 months after her role in a ferocious pub brawl at Peggy Junes in Redcar escalated into a petrol bomb attack that left a man engulfed in flames.
The chaotic night, captured on CCTV, saw Reed headbutt the bar owner before driving her then-boyfriend Carl Wild to buy materials for the improvised firebomb, fuelling fears of life-endangering violence in a busy Teesside venue.