Sweet Bobby's Bobby Jandu and where he is now as Netflix film spotlights catfishing case

A caller Netflix documentary from the producers of The Tinder Swindler delves into the harrowing communicative of a vigor big who was catfished for astir a decade

*Warning: Contains spoilers for Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare*

Netflix's caller documentary Sweet Bobby tells the communicative of a pistillate who became embroiled successful what is thought to beryllium the UK's longest-running catfishing case, which spanned conscionable shy of a decade.

It follows the communicative of London-based vigor big Kirat Assi, who struck up a relationship with a cardiologist named Bobby Jandu connected Facebook. They some appeared to tally successful the aforesaid circles wrong London's Sikh assemblage and adjacent had a vouched-for communal transportation successful communal successful the signifier of Kirat's cousin, Simran Bhogal, meaning alarm bells failed to ringing for Kirat.

Eventually, she and Bobby would get engaged without ever gathering face-to-face. However, aft Bobby's repeated promises to conscionable his fiancée successful the soma fell through, Kirat took matters into her ain hands and hired a backstage researcher to observe her beau's existent address.

When she showed up, the antheral that answered looked precisely similar the Bobby she had chatted to online, but had nary thought who she was. When Bobby, fearing for his family, threatened to impact the police, the information yet came to light.

It emerged that the idiosyncratic down the Bobby illustration was really Kirat's ain relative Simran. According to the Netflix documentary, she created a web of 60 Facebook accounts to lend authenticity to her catfishing scam, which were a premix of existent identities and fake ones. 

Bobby Jandu was 1 of those existent people, with his relationship duplicated by Simran arsenic she facilitated an online narration with her relative spanning 9 years betwixt 2009 and 2018. So who is the existent Bobby, and wherever is helium now?

Where is Bobby Jandu now?

As referenced successful the documentary, Kirat really met the existent Bobby conscionable months into her online narration with the fake one. She bumped into him portion connected a friend's hen do, approaching him to chat. When helium didn't recognise her, she attributed his disorder to intoxicant coupled with a large nightclub.

The existent Bobby so resides successful Brighton, which explains however the brace bumped into each different years ago. He presently works arsenic a dental surgeon - not arsenic a cardiologist - and regularly posts updates connected his Instagram of palmy procedures carried retired connected his clients.

He is joined with 2 children. His woman Sanj Jandu besides had her individuality utilized successful the catfishing scam. The existent Sanj is an writer and wrote the children's publication An Adventure A Day which shows "how a disabled kid tin unrecorded a mean life," according to the blurb. Sanj says the communicative is "loosely" based connected her ain children.

Simran does not look successful the film, but a connection issued to Netflix connected her behalf stresses that "she considers it a backstage substance and powerfully objects to what she describes arsenic galore unfounded and damaging accusations."

Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare is present streaming connected Netflix