Dubbed the Worst Dad in Britain, Keith MacDonald has been involved in several outrageous scandals over the years.
The 37-year-old, who first became a father aged 15, had six children before he turned 20 and now has a remarkable 16 kids by 15 different women.
Dubbed the 'Sunderland sh****r' due to siring a massive brood by various different girlfriends, Keith is said to have cost the taxpayer more than £2m in benefits payments.
However, as reported exclusively by The Mirror, he has finally settled down and is in a steady relationship with Kimberley Welford, the mother of one of his sons.
With the nation's most feckless father supposedly now ending his controversial ways, here is a look back at some of his most shocking moments.
Meeting women on buses
Busy dad Keith once said that the best way to find potential partners is on public transport.
In 2015, he appeared in a Channel 5 documentary entitled 40 Kids by 20 Women, which followed a number of so-called 'mega-dads' to see how they cope, or fail to cope, with having so many children.
He told the programme-makers that he was desperate to meet new women and was even shown trying to chat up love interests at a bus stop.
Before then, Keith appeared on the Jeremy Kyle Show and during his stint, also claimed he meets the mothers of his children on public transport.
He previously bragged: "It's easy – they never seem to say no. Just chat them up on the bus.
"That's what I do and they never seem to say no. If they like you, they like you. Get their number and text them and arrange to meet when you come off the bus."
Kids conceived on double-decker bus
Careless Keith reportedly refuses to use contraception - which could explain how he came to father six children by the time he reached 20. Two of them, he claims, were actually conceived on double-decker buses.
In 2008, he said: "It's not my fault – I thought they were all on the pill. I have fun, come through to Newcastle, or go into Sunderland.
"Lasses keep on coming up to me."
But then in 2010 he told reporters that it was 'not his fault' he had fathered so many children.
"I use condoms, but they always seem to split," he said.
Cost to taxpayer
He has been branded a 'slob' and a 'sponger', and Keith - who left school after becoming a dad at 15 - is said to have now cost the taxpayer more than £2million in benefits payments.
In July 2006, he insisted his children will be well provided for with benefits as he remained unemployed.
At that time, the estimated cost of supporting his seven kids until they were 16 was £1million, a bill footed by the taxpayer.
The dad has said he has rarely worked because 'he finds it boring' and previously claimed incapacity allowance for a 'bad back'.
Spending days on slot machines
The jobless binman's son, who lives on £44-a-week income support, caused outrage in 2005 when he bragged he has never paid a penny to the mums of his other six children.
It was then revealed that MacDonald spent much of his time playing slot machines while the mums devoted their time to bringing up his kids.
He admitted: "All I do is have fun."
Wanted DNA test
Despite being a dad of 16, MacDonald previously claimed only one of the kids is his and asked Jeremy Kyle to do DNA tests when he was on the since-axed show.
At the time of his exes Sarah Armstrong's and Danielle Little's pregnancies, the supposed father dismissed both women as 'liars', Daily Mail reports.
And when his other ex-girlfriend Clare Bryant was expecting her second baby with MacDonald in May 2011, he responded: "Clare told me it was mine and then sent me a text saying: 'It's yours'.
"The other day I put on my Facebook that I was in a relationship with another girl, I'm not really with her, she was having problems, so I said I'd put that we were together to help her out.
"I think Clare's jealous because she thinks I'm with someone else. She's said it's definitely mine. I don't know what to think."
MacDonald has even denied that he has 15 kids.
"All these exes are saying different things about me, and a lot of it is lies," he said.
"They're playing games. One of my exes has been saying I've got 15 kids to 14 women, but that's not true."
Faked his own death
In 2012, Keith astonishingly attempted to fake his own death in a bid to shirk responsibility for his ninth child, an ex claimed.
He allegedly posed as his best friend to text Clare Bryant with the devastating news he had taken his own life. Fake posts were also left on Facebook, blaming her for his fake suicide.
Speaking with The Mirror at the time, she told of how she received a text from MacDonald's "flatmate" that read: "It's Jason. Keith is dead he went on Friday."
She said: "I went through hell over it. What sort of sick person pretends to have died?"
After receiving the text, Clare, who is mum to MacDonald's eighth and ninth child, frantically called hospitals and police to trace him.
She added: "I was worried. I got messages from Keith's Facebook page from someone saying she was his sister, Kim. I was told it was my fault he had died, that he left a note and that police would be round to speak to me."
He later admitted to the sick scam and told her he had done it to "get away from his life".
'Twins in lockdown'
Keith is now in a steady relationship with Kimberley Welford, the mother of one of his sons.
They first met eight years ago and they have a son who is now aged six.
"I got with Keith in 2015," she told The Mirror. "We have been together since then."
Keith posted an image of their son on social media, believed to be his 16th child, with friends saying he is the 'double' of his dad.
But he was said to have sired a set of twins during lockdown - however this has been denied.
Kimberley said that it wasn't possible, adding: "There is not a chance he could have had twins then."
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