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Former CBB star Rhian Sugden's 'secret ex boyfriend' had been convicted of killing someone.
According to friends of the former Channel 5 reality show star she was dating former model Kevin O'Dea, who was spent seven years for his part in a revenge attack that left a student dead in Liverpool, for months.
Rhian, who became notorious because of 'sexting' married TV star Vernon Kaye, is said to be hiding the identity of her boyfriend. She even banned him from her eviction from the CBB house.
Irish O'Dea was jailed for seven years in 2008 following the time that the court found him guilty of attacking 24-year-old Sion Hardy in 2007.
Former model O'Dea met Rhian in a Manchester club when he got released last year - before her stint in Celebrity Big Brother.
According to The Daily Star, Rhin knew about the conviction of her lover.
The friend said: 'Kevin has been flaunting the fact he is seeing Rhian and he has posted pictures of them together on Facebook.
'He is very open about his conviction for ¬manslaughter and everyone who knows him knows about it. So I’m sure Rhian does too.'
There was a rumor that Rhian’s boyfriend didn’t turn up to her CBB conviction because of Rhian’s incessant flirting with Olympian Ashley McKenzie.
But friends of the couple said it was because Rhian was ashamed that the general public would find out that her former lover is a convicted killer.
Friends of O'Dea claim that the latter is a 'ladies man'.
One university classmate added: 'He’s good-looking and very charming and girls also fell for his Irish accent.
On May 28, the 22 O’Dea was found guilty of manslaughter at Liverpool Crown Court.
His victim, Hardy, from Bangor, Gwynedd was claimed to be 'special, unique and happy person' by his family.
According to the jury, he heard Hardy had been out at Nation nightclub in Liverpool with friends and was later attacked. Hardy died after he receives a blow to the neck.
It turned out that Hardy wasn’t the target that night. Hardy's friend Stephen Lunne was the target of the attack after an earlier incident in the club.
When Hardy and Lunne went outside and walked through a nearby underpass, O'Dea and his gang pounced on them.
The Liverpool University student died after suffering a brain hemorrhage.
Witnesses claimed that O’Dea and his pals were 'celebrating' after the attacked.
O’Dea always claimed it was just a self-defense, but a jury dismissed his account.
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