Reality TV star Charlotte Crosby has been banned from driving for three years after a second drink-driving conviction.
The 25-year-old Geordie Shore star was caught driving her Range Rover early in the morning after drinking on a train home from Newcastle to London.
Two police officers saw her weaving down the road and, after pulling her over, a breath test showed she was more than double the legal limit.
Chairman of the bench Keith McIntosh at Newcastle Magistrates' Court said it "beggared belief" that she had been caught for a second time.
It puts into jeopardy the Celebrity Big Brother 2013 winner's plans to launch a career in America because she will now be unable to get a visa to travel there.
She was banned from driving for 18 months in 2012.
Crosby, who has more than 2.7 million Twitter followers and has also made fitness DVDs, pleaded guilty to the latest charge on 28 January.
Nick Freeman, defending, said she had decided to make the short journey from the railway station to her hotel despite having initially planned to get a taxi.
He said "she accepts that she is the author of her misfortune" and added that she was "bitterly ashamed, contrite and embarrassed".
Mr Freeman said Crosby had been close to landing a TV career in America but "that will not now happen as she will not get a visa".
"She would like to apologise to the court and her family," he said.
"She would like to apologise to her legions of fans and supporters who she has let down in a huge way."
Crosby was also told to pay £1,185.
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