A FORMER winner of television series Big Brother has been sentenced in court for speeding.

Anthony Hutton, 25, pleaded guilty to speeding at Darlington Magistrates Court yesterday (June 28) via letter.

He had been exceeding the 30mph speed limit on Salters Lane North, in Darlington, on March 28.

Hutton, of Stanley Street, Consett, was fined 200 and given five penalty points.

Hutton is a disco dancer who rose to fame after he won the sixth series of reality television show Big Brother.

Since winning the television show he has appeared in several pantomimes, turned the Christmas lights on in his home town and starred on Sky Ones celebrity football challenge The Match.