The Bachelorette Australia star Charlie Newling dead at 36

Charlie Newling, who starred on The Bachelorette in 2018, has been found dead aged 36, weeks after welcoming a daughter.

The Australian reality contestant was reportedly found by police in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs on Saturday night. Paramedics attempted to revive him around 11pm but he was unable to be saved, Daily Mail reports.

A NSW police spokesperson confirmed to news.com.au police attended the scene. His death is not being treated as suspicious.

A report is being prepared for the coroner.

It’s understood Newling, who was living in Bronte and working as a builder, welcomed a baby girl two months ago with his partner, Kristal Taylor, whom he’s been in a relationship with since at least January 2021.

Newling also has a 13-year-old son from a previous relationship.

He found fame on Ali Oetjen’s season of The Bachelorette and quickly became a frontrunner. However, he was let go after refusing to introduce Oetjen to his family during hometown visits until they were “exclusive”.

He then briefly dated fellow The Bachelor contestant Dasha Gaivoronski, who was on Nick ‘Honey Badger’ Cummins’ season, before striking up a fleeting romance with influencer Esme DeWitt in 2019.

Shortly after leaving the Channel 10 reality show, Newling made headlines for being forcibly removed by security guards from the Golden Sheaf pub in Sydney. He later admitted to being intoxicated during the incident.

In 2021, he was convicted of low-range drink driving.

In September last year, Newling was slapped with a 13-month prison sentence after being charged with using a carriage service to make threats.

He was accused of sending up to 37 text messages to his mother in April of that year, in which he repeatedly threatened to kill her husband.

During the trial at Waverley Local Court, Newling’s lawyer defended his client by saying he’d struggled with alcohol abuse.

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Magistrate Ross Hudson acknowledged Newling had suffered childhood trauma, including having to care for his biological father who became paraplegic when Newling was a teenager. His father died in 2018 from an overdose of pain medication.

But Magistrate Hudson conceded the messages would have caused “fear, torment and horror” for his mother and stepdad.

Newling had spent one month in custody in the lead up to the sentencing, with his sentence ordered to be serviced in the community by way of an intensive correction order.

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