A reality TV star from Netflix was discovered smuggling drugs worth £150,000 on a flight from Thailand. She has an OnlyFans account where she proudly states she is seeking a man who is ‘good in bed,’ despite her strict Catholic background, as reported by MailOnline.
Olga Bednarska, 27, was stopped by customs officers at Manchester Airport with two large suitcases containing 40kg of cannabis.
The reality show contestant received a lenient sentence after the court learned about her substantial debts resulting from extravagant living. She accepted £18,000 from an unidentified person to fund the trip, a decision that sparked criticism from activists who condemned the light punishment.
During the hearing at Manchester Crown Court, scant information about Ms. Bednarska’s personal life surfaced. She confessed to smuggling 88lbs of illegal substances into the UK from Thailand.
But MailOnline can now reveal the privileged background of the self proclaimed ‘Polish party girl’ who grew up in a deeply religious Roman Catholic community.
Before her world came crashing down, Ms Bednarska attempted to break out from her conservative surroundings by creating a carefully crafted image as a social media influencer while enjoying a jet set lifestyle.
It’s a far cry from her early days growing up in the small town of Rypin, 90 miles north-west of the Polish capital Warsaw.
Locals said Ms Benarska’s wealthy family paid for her to attend private school in Poland before financing her move to leafy Surrey in the UK.
The family live as pillars of the community in their hometown after establishing a studio making stained glass windows in 1972 – which has become renowned around the world.
Ms Bednarska worked as a personal assistant before heading to the exotic Turks and Caicos islands in January 2022 to star in the third season of Netflix’s hit reality show Too Hot to Handle.
She had less than 2,000 Instagram followers when she was parachuted into the show as ‘a bombshell contestant’ vowing to be ‘the baddest of them all’ and saying she was looking for a man who was ‘good in bed’.
In the clip captioned ‘if flirting were an Olympic sport’ Olga describes herself as ‘a Polish party girl’ with an ‘Eastern European flavour.’
Wearing a bikini, she says she is ‘looking for a guy I can party with, have fun with, who will make me laugh and who I could potentially fall in love with… Of course, you have to be good in bed too.’
She added: ‘I’m going there to stir things up and I guarantee that’s what I’ll do.’
Ms Bednarska went on to accumulate more than 110,000 fans while posting glamorous photos modelling swimsuits and evening gowns from dazzling locations around the world including New York, the Greek island of Mykonos, Paris, Berlin and Ibiza.
Meanwhile she set up her own account on the controversial OnlyFans platform which is popular with sex workers and sees creators sell exclusive photos to subscribers.
She also hired herself out for £160 on Cameo where celebrities respond to requests for personalised messages.
Ms Bednarska provided a brief insight into the life she left behind in a sequence of photos posted on social media after she returned to her hometown to join her family as she celebrated her 26th birthday last September.
Images show her cuddling up to her parents, sharing tender moments and in one caption she says of her mother: ‘I love her so much it hurts my soul.’
Another showed a beautifully prepared birthday lunch with the words: ‘Straight up facts… mum is the queen of lunches.’
The images show Ms Bednarska the family’s sprawling beautifully manicured suburban garden, complete with a private swimming pool.Another shows her filming the inside of her family’s art studio where she says: ‘How cute is my parents gallery.’
The family’s success came after Ms Bednarska’s grandmother Elzbieta established herself as an award-winning master glass maker after her artist and sculptor husband Andrzej became ill.
Her spectacular stained glass work features in churches throughout Poland and abroad including one in London.
One flagship project in the local Catholic Church has three giant windows of more than 2,200 sq feet which took over 20 years to complete.
The family have been perfecting their craft for more than 50 years with Olga’s father Bartosz Bednarscy, who is also an acclaimed artist, playing a major part in the prestigious business.
Explaining how she learned her trade Elzbieta said in a recent interview: ‘At first, I thought it was not a profession for a woman – but stained glass found me.
‘At university I attended optional classes at the stained glass studio with Andrzej, my husband.
‘When we were finishing our studies, Professor Kwiatkowski, who ran the studio, died. We were asked to finish a stained glass window that he was making for one of the churches.
‘My husband, who was finishing his studies in sculpture, was planning to take up ceramics at that time and built a kiln for that purpose. It turned out that this kiln is very good for stained glass. And that’s how it all started.‘My husband later became seriously ill. He was ill for many years. In the meantime, a love for stained glass appeared.’
As well as churches and cathedrals the family also undertake private orders and create stained glass windows for homes, hotels and restaurants and run a gallery alongside their modern workshop.
One resident of the town said: ‘What has happened is truly shocking. They are a very well respected family who support numerous projects and have for many years been actively involved in the social life in the area.
‘This is a small town where people live quietly and the church plays an important role in the lives of many people here.’
Ms Bednarska, who had no previous convictions, was stopped with the drug haul by customs officers at Manchester Airport in October.
The court was told she had agreed to take designer goods from Phuket, southern Thailand, back to Britain in exchange for £18,000.
She is said to have met an “’associate’ at the airport before checking into a hotel ‘free of charge’ and being given ‘spending money’ and the two suitcases.
The associate then asked her to provide personal items to ‘cover up’ the luxury goods she had agreed to take with her.
When she was questioned by Border Force officials she initially told them that she had packed the suitcases herself and that she had not been asked to take anything with her on behalf of someone else.
Samuel Eskdale, prosecuting, said: ‘She was then asked who paid for her flights and she said her friend named ‘Tex’. She said they wanted her to bring back designer clothes and watches.
‘The officers asked her to unlock the suitcases, but she could not provide the code to do so. She then confirmed she had been given the suitcases at the airport.’
The drugs were found in vacuum-sealed packages concealed by clothes inside the suitcases.
Passing sentence Judge Potter told her: ‘I am not going to send you to prison. That will mean you will be released from custody.
‘Over the course of the last few years, you have found yourself in financial difficulties. You have incurred debts to do with work, rent and other household costs. You have simply lived beyond your means.
‘Via a friend of a friend, you agreed to import designer goods from Thailand. You agreed to go and do this and return 10 days later. Your expenses were to be paid by others, and you were to be paid £18,000.’
‘You decided to place your trust in someone you hardly knew. You were acting under the direction of others, potentially for further profit.
‘I am sure you can imagine the harm that wholesale value drugs have on our communities when they are sold for profit. You have directly contributed to this by agreeing to do what you did.’
She was given a 20-month prison sentence suspended for two years and ordered to complete 15 days of rehabilitation.
Slamming the ruling former police officer and campaigner for victims of crime Norman Brennan said: ‘Anyone that has bought two suitcases worth of cannabis into this country should be sent to prison.
‘Many people would have suffered as a result of those two suitcases of cannabis being brought into Britain.
‘The only deterrent for such people is prison and to go to prison for a suitable amount of time.
‘Others will think ‘I’ll give it a go, nothing will happen to me’. I’m afraid we have a criminal justice system in Britain that is broken.’
‘The message judges should be sending out is we will accept in no uncertain terms that anybody who brings drugs into Britain which blights society and those that use drugs which feed the drugs trade by committing crime will be punished. There has to be a deterrent.’
