‘My family couldn’t visit me’: ‘Hot Felon’ opens up about how viral fame turned his jail life upside down |
Meeks’ mugshot shot him to viral celebrity (Stockton Police Department via Getty Images) Jeremy Meeks became one of the internet’s most unlikely celebrities in 2014 when a police mugshot, showing his piercing blue eyes and chiseled cheekbones, spread rapidly across social media, earning him nicknames such as “Hot Felon” and “Prison Bae”. That attention would…