Jack Tweed has been banned from driving for 12 months after admitting he was behind the wheel with cannabis above the legal limit. Chelmsford Magistrates' Court also ordered him to pay a £692 fine, a £277 surcharge and £85 in costs.
Chelmsford Magistrates' Court
Tweed pleaded guilty on Monday to one charge of driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit. The court heard that he was stopped on Three Mile Hill near Chelmsford in Essex on 6 December 2025, failed a roadside drug swipe and was arrested.
He was then taken to a police station for a blood sample. That sample recorded 5.6 micrograms of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in his system, above the legal limit of two micrograms.
Jack Tweed and Jade Goody
Tweed apologised to the court and said he used cannabis to help him sleep after experiencing depression and anxiety. He told the court, "I'm not making excuses, I've been through some trauma in my life, other stuff that led to me having depression and anxiety."
He added, "I can't sleep at night, I'd found having a little bit of that helps me sleep through the night and that's what I was doing." He also said, "I had some the night before to help me sleep again… stupid decision, I drove in the morning when I shouldn't have."
The court also heard that Tweed was working as an electrician and said his income was maybe £3,000 a month. Magistrate Andrew McGregor said he would receive a statutory disqualification from driving of 12 months.
Andrew McGregor
The sentencing lands against a record that already included seven previous convictions for 14 offences, including a 2007 conviction for driving with excess alcohol. Tweed, who appeared on Celebrity Big Brother UK in 2007, has now added another driving conviction to that record.
He told the court, "I've been working on myself, I've found other things to help myself get through situations and sleeping that doesn't involve drugs." He also said, "I do work to keep my life in the forward motion – if I get banned it's just going to go backwards."
For Tweed, the immediate result is clear: a year off the road, a financial penalty and a fresh conviction that sits alongside the older ones the court heard about. The unanswered issue is the same one the case raised in court — what support, if any, is backing up the sleep and mental-health problems he described.
