Jake Quickenden has revealed cruel trolls told him to “drown” his son.
The reality star and his fiancée Sophie Church welcomed their first child together in February, a baby boy named Leo Oliver.
During his appearance on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday, Jake revealed his six-month-old son has been targeted by vile online trolls.
The former X Factor star said: “Yes he [Leo] got trolled, I think it’s just the world we’re in at the minute, and if you put yourself out there on TV you’re going to get trolled.”
“I think the worst thing they said was, ‘drown him, you should drown him’. You can’t get your head around that.”
Jake admitted he feels “really sorry” for trolls because “they must be going through really hard times” to think it’s okay to send such horrible messages.
“I think at the beginning it really got to me but the more I sat back and thought, ‘there must be something going on here there’s deeper issues here.’ You kind of just have to brush it off and move forward and that’s what I always try to do,” he added.
Just one month after Leo was born, Jake revealed he had received messages calling his newborn “ugly”.
In a lengthy Instagram post, the former I’m A Celeb star wrote: “REAL POST… So in the past week this little man has been told he needs Botox, that he’s ugly as f**k and that he’s weird looking…”
“Me myself have also been told stay off social media if you don’t want to be trolled, it’s so baffling to me that I should have to stay off social media if I don’t want my 4 week old trolled.”
“I don’t mind people giving me s**t, as sad as it is I’ve had to get used to being called ‘irrelevant’, ugly’, ‘attention seeking’ and the list goes on but to troll a innocent child is so wrong and the people doing it seriously need to seek help.”
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“Also why should I stay off social media if I don’t want him trolled the thought process of some people is shocking, maybe people just shouldn’t troll.”
“I enjoy social media it’s full of lovely people who are supportive and I like sharing my ups and downs, I try and be real as possible, but unfortunately there is a dark side of social media and something needs doing about it,” he added.
It comes after Jake announced his engagement to Sophie, after proposing to her in Greece earlier this month.
