A PERVERT wrestler who appeared on ITV dating show Take Me Out has been given an eight month jail sentence and banned from using the internet.  

Jim Brown, 24, was the first ever guest on the programme, presented by Paddy McGuinness, and viewers saw him whip off his kilt to reveal a skintight wrestling outfit.  

The gym instructor, who hoped to compete for Team GB at the London Olympics, was arrested after committing a sex act near a children's swimming pool.  

He was also caught with indecent images of children after a police raid on his family home in Holytown, Lanarkshire.  

Brown was found guilty by a majority verdict following a four-day trial at Hamilton Sheriff Court in July.  

He has was jailed for eight months for the indecent act inside a cubicle at Wishaw Sports Centre.  

However, he has already served five months on remand and is to be released from prison immediately.  

The grappler, whose stage name is James Wallace, was placed on probation for three years for the child porn offence and put on the sex offenders register for five years.  

Sheriff Thomas Miller also banned him from having any unsupervised access to the internet, social networking sites or to children under the age of 17 and ordered him to attend gyms for adult users only.  

Police who searched Brown's home found a laptop computer belonging to him containing sick images of children as well as a hard drive with evidence of searches for child porn websites.  

During his trial, Brown claimed that he had not been responsible for the 13 images and two movies found on the laptop, which previously belonged to his younger sister Kimberley, 17.  

The court had heard that the internal memory on the Apple laptop had been reset so no dates could be found of when the images were downloaded on to the computer.  

Describing himself as an 'Olympic athlete', Brown told how he regularly attended celebrity sex parties and had to fight off female advances.  

He said: "I can certainly tell the jury I was not involved in browsing, searching or downloading those images.   "To suggest who it was would be pure speculation."  

The court also heard from police officers who were called to Wishaw Sports Centre on April 2 this year after reports of a suspicious man in the changing area.  

They told the court that when they arrived in the changing village they witnessed a cubicle "vibrating" and arrested Brown.  

Millions of viewers watched as Brown was paired with screenwriter Caroline Mellor, 34, on Take Me Out last January.  

After their date, Brown boasted that they had had a 'night to remember' and were constantly in touch with each other.  

However, following his conviction Caroline, a teaching assistant, told of her disgust at being set up with Brown.  

She said: "After our date, I started to realise something wasn't quite right.  

"We were keeping in touch and he just seemed like a control freak.  

"It upsets me because I have an eight-year-old daughter. He even said she looked cute when I showed him her picture.  

"I am horrified that I met him on the show. I cannot believe that they put me in touch with such a despicable man."  

Brown was found guilty of being in possession of the indecent images at his home between December, 2006, and October last year.  

He was also convicted of public indecency at Wishaw Sports Centre on April 2 this year.