- Kirat Assi shares her story of being catfished for eight years in Netflix’s “Candy Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare.”
- Assi thought she was relationship a wealthy man named Bobby Jandu.
- The catfisher, Simran Bhogal, appears to don’t have any on-line presence now.
Warning: Spoilers forward for Netflix’s “Candy Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare” and Tortoise’s podcast “Candy Bobby.”
Netflix’s “Candy Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare” is the streaming service’s newest scammer true crime documentary, a style that has been more and more widespread lately, with titles like “The Tinder Swindler,” “Bitconned,” and “Unhealthy Vegan” capturing the eye of the platform’s lots of of tens of millions of subscribers worldwide.
The documentary, in addition to the hit Tortoise Media podcast of the identical identify, follows Kirat Assi, a radio presenter in London who describes how she started a web-based friendship with Bobby Jandu, a rich man she met in 2010 by way of Fb.
Over the subsequent eight years, their friendship become a romantic relationship: she met his household by way of social media, and the couple bought engaged with out ever assembly in actual life. However in 2018, Assi found she had been deceived when she tracked down the actual Bobby Jandu, who was residing in Brighton together with his spouse and little one and had no thought who Assi was.
Finally, after the confrontation, Simran Bhogal, a relative of Assi’s, got here to her home to admit that she had created pretend Fb accounts for Jandu and his household and had been messaging her on all of them.
The documentary options interviews with Assi, the actual Jandu, and his spouse, Sanj Jandu, however Bhogal by no means seems. As an alternative, an actor portrays Bhogal in photos.
A title card on the finish of the documentary says Bhogal declined to be interviewed. “This matter includes occasions that started when she was a schoolgirl,” it reads. “She considers it a personal matter and strongly objects to what she describes as ‘quite a few unfounded’ and damaging accusations.”
The documentary doesn’t present every other data indicating the place Bhogal is now. This is what else we may discover out about her.
Simran Bhogal appears to have scrubbed her on-line presence
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Enterprise Insider couldn’t discover Bhogal’s present Fb or LinkedIn accounts, in the event that they certainly nonetheless exist. Assi has additionally hidden her pals checklist on Fb and has hidden or deleted all of her posts from 2009 to 2018.
Within the documentary, Assi mentioned that Bhogal deleted all of the pretend accounts.
Tortoise’s 2021 podcast collection “Candy Bobby,” additionally about Assi’s catfishing case, gives essentially the most details about Bhogal’s life.
The podcast reported that Bhogal was about 18 when she started catfishing Assi as Bobby Jandu.
In episode 4, host Alexi Mostrous mentioned Bhogal lived 20 minutes from Assi’s house in West London after they recorded the podcast in 2021. In episode 5, Mostrous mentioned Bhogal labored at a well known British financial institution and was promoted to vp in 2018.
That financial institution is rumored to be Barclays, however this has not been verified. In 2018, a recruitment firm referred to as Expertise Ticker posted on X that an individual named Simran Bhogal was promoted to Vice President, COO & finance enterprise companion at Barclays.
A consultant for Barclays didn’t instantly reply to Enterprise Insider’s request for remark.
In episode six, Mostrous mentioned that Bhogal had left the job in 2021, although he didn’t know the rationale why.
London’s Metropolitan police remains to be investigating the case, and Assi sued Bhogal in 2020. They settled in 2021, which included a payout to Assi and an apology letter, which Assi may solely present to a restricted variety of individuals.
