Pregnant Ellie Goulding's boyfriend Beau Minniear's full-frontal role in raunchy drama emerges - as his troubled past and arrest is revealed

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Ellie Goulding's new boyfriend's racy role in an old drama has been revealed - after it emerged she is set to welcome a child with him.

Actor Beau Minniear, 28, and Ellie confirmed they were dating earlier this year and on Monday night the singer, 38, revealed she was pregnant as she showed off her baby bump at the Fashion Awards in London.

On Sunday, The Daily Mail then exclusively revealed that in 2018, aged 20, Beau was arrested in Palm Beach, Florida, where he was living at the time. 

The incident led to him being charged with three offences: robbery without a firearm, felony battery resulting in a serious bodily injury, and marijuana possession.

In the wake of this it has emerged that back in 2022 Beau took on a small but very raunchy role in Paramount+ programme Minx.

One scene in it sees him fully naked as character JJ and playing tennis with another nude man, reports The Sun.

Ellie Goulding's new boyfriend Beau Minniear's racy role in an old drama has been revealed - after it emerged she is set to welcome a child with him

It has emerged that back in 2022 Beau took on a small but very raunchy role in Paramount+ programme Minx

The series is set in 1970s Los Angeles, and follows a young feminist who joins forces with a low-rent publisher to create the first erotic magazine for women. 

The naked scene in which Beau stars is for a photoshoot for a racy magazine where he and actor Chris Riggi show off their assets.

According to the publication, the series' head of makeup has confirmed that prosthetics were actually used for these types of scenes.

It comes after his criminal record was revealed by The Daily Mail.

According to documents filed by the West Palm Beach Police Department, Beau and two other young men were taken into custody after an altercation on a street at around 2.30am.

A 36-year-old man claimed to have been kicked and punched multiple times by a group of attackers, while lying on the ground, leaving him with a fractured elbow and bleeding nose.

According to the police records, he claimed that they also ripped off his trousers and stole his wallet, which was found in the possession of one of the men Beau was with when they were arrested.

According to address details filed with the police, the victim – who also has a criminal record – was homeless at the time.

One scene in it sees him fully naked as character JJ and playing tennis with another nude man, reports The Sun

Beau, 28, and Ellie confirmed they were dating earlier this year and on Monday night the singer, 38, revealed she was pregnant as she showed off her baby bump at the Fashion Awards

He also appears in several raunchy scenes in Ellie's latest music video, Destiny

In one, the pair passionately kiss while wearing veils over their heads; in another Ellie takes pictures of Beau's semi-naked body before straddling him

In a mugshot taken after his arrest, Beau, dressed in a blue-and-purple plaid shirt, looks downcast and remorseful, his hair hanging greasily over his forehead. He was the only one in the group charged with a drugs offence, having been found with seven grams of marijuana in his pockets.

Having served two days behind bars at the County Jail, Beau admitted misdemeanour battery, a lesser offence than felony battery, as part of an apparent plea deal.

Appearing in front of a jury in November 2018, he was granted probation and ordered to pay $675 (£500) in costs.

He also had to complete a 12-hour online anger management course, and was ordered to do 75 hours of community service at a minimum of ten hours per month over the following year.

This wasn't, however, Beau's last brush with the law.

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In 2020, during the Black Lives Matter riots in Los Angeles – two days of unrest sparked by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota – he was arrested again.

Along with 4,000 others, the then 23-year-old was taken into custody for breaching the 8pm curfew that had been imposed on the city to quell the violence. No further action appears to have been taken, and he was apparently released without charge.

Given that Ellie is expecting his first child, one must presume that Beau has told her about his chequered past.

The singer split from her husband Caspar Jopling, with whom she shares a four-year-old son, Arthur, in February last year. Since her relationship with Beau went public in September, the pair have holidayed together in Italy, where Beau shared online an intimate photograph of Ellie lying in an unmade hotel room bed.

He also appears in several raunchy scenes in Ellie's latest music video, Destiny.

In one, the pair passionately kiss while wearing veils over their heads; in another Ellie takes pictures of Beau's semi-naked body before straddling him. She playfully captioned a behind-the-scenes clip on her TikTok profile: 'Bring your bf [boyfriend] to work day,' adding: 'He upstaged me tbh [to be honest].'

It marks quite the change for the British songstress, who just six years ago married Eton-educated art dealer Caspar in a fairytale ceremony at York Minster.

In attendance were Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, long-term friends of Ellie – who is also close to Prince William and Prince Harry, with whom she was once romantically linked.

Ellie broke her silence on her pregnancy and gushed that she felt 'empowered and my absolute best' on Wednesday after her surprise bump reveal. 

She showed off her growing bump in an outfit from designer Willy Chavarria and announced her happy news. 

She playfully captioned a behind-the-scenes clip on her TikTok profile: 'Bring your bf [boyfriend] to work day,' adding: 'He upstaged me tbh [to be honest]' 

On Sunday, The Daily Mail then exclusively revealed that in 2018, aged 20, Beau was arrested in Palm Beach, Florida , where he was living at the time 

It marks quite the change for the British songstress, who just six years ago married Eton-educated art dealer Caspar in a fairytale ceremony at York Minster (seen in 2023) 

In her first Instagram post since the reveal, she shared a series of photos from the night. 

The hitmaker wrote: 'So grateful to have attended the Fashion Awards with the visionary Willy Chavarria, wearing a look that was a little bit custom, a little bit archive. 

'Only on a night like this, could Willy be the one to empower me and make me feel my absolute bestttt.'

Ellie added: 'Thank you for a night filled with meaning, beauty, and so much heart x.'