Charlotte Crosby found guilty of drink-driving for second time

Charlotte Crosby Credit: PA

Reality TV star Charlotte Crosby has been found guilty of drink-driving for a second time - scuppering her dreams of breaking America.

The 25-year-old former Celebrity Big Brother winner and Geordie Shore star was caught driving her Range Rover in the early hours after drinking on the train home from London to Newcastle.

Her lawyer Nick Freeman said she had decided to make the short journey from the railway station to her hotel despite having initially planned to get a taxi.

Two police officers saw her weaving down the road and pulled her over. A breath test showed she was over double the legal limit.

Mr Freeman said "she accepts that she is the author of her misfortune" and added that she was "bitterly ashamed, contrite and embarrassed".

The reality star said she is 'bitterly ashamed, contrite and embarrassed' Credit: PA

She was previously banned from driving for 18 months in 2012.

Newcastle Magistrates' Court was told that this latest indiscretion means she is now unable to get a visa to travel to the USA.

Crosby, who has more than 2.7 million Twitter followers and has also made fitness DVDs, pleaded guilty to the charge after the incident on January 28.

Mr Freeman said Crosby had been close to landing a TV career in America but "that will not now happen as she will not get a visa".

Banning Crosby from driving for three years, chairman of the bench Keith McIntosh said it "beggared belief" that she had been caught for a second time.

"We take drink-driving offences very seriously in this court, even more so when it's not the first offence," he said.

Crosby, who had 80 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath compared with the legal limit of 35, was also told to pay £1,185.