Former reality TV star Josh Duggar has been arrested and is being held in a jail in Arkansas. It was not immediately known what charges he faces. Josh Duggar, 33, shot to fame when he featured in reality television series ’19 Kids and Counting’ on TLC. The show was based on the life of Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar’s 19 children; Josh is the oldest. 

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Josh was born in Tontitown in Washington County in Northwestern Arkansas, on March 3, 1988. He calls himself a political activist with Republican affiliations. Duggar was the executive director of FRC Action, a lobbying political action committee (PAC) sponsored by the Family Research Council, from June 2013 to May 2015. 

In 2015, a police report from 2006 revealed that he was accused of molesting multiple underage girls as a teen, including four of his own sisters. The same year, Duggar issued a statement on his family’s website, saying he had cheated on his wife. “I have been the biggest hypocrite ever. While espousing faith and family values, I have secretly over the last several years been viewing pornography on the Internet and this became a secret addiction and I became unfaithful to my wife” … “the last few years, while publicly stating I was fighting against immorality in our country I was hiding my own personal failures,” the statement read.

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19 Kids and Counting was cancelled in 2015 as controversy swirled around Josh Duggar.

 That year Duggar issued a statement on his family’s website, saying he had cheated on his wife. “I have been the biggest hypocrite ever. While espousing faith and family values, I have secretly over the last several years been viewing pornography on the Internet and this became a secret addiction and I became unfaithful to my wife” … “the last few years, while publicly stating I was fighting against immorality in our country I was hiding my own personal failures,” the statement read.

He was sent to a rehabilitation facility that his family described as a “long-term treatment center”. In November 2019, Homeland Security conducted an “ongoing federal investigation,” but no charges were filed against Josh.Duggar’s wife is pregnant with their seventh child.