Six months ago, Ellie Crampsie started a 16-month prison sentence for smuggling £150,000 of cannabis into the UK.
This week she was lounging in a Glasgow sauna in a leopard print bikini.
The 23-year-old influencer from Broomhouse, Glasgow, shared the day out on Thursday (8 October), as reported by Creatorzine.
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She spent it at Hilton Glasgow Health and Fitness, posing in the sauna before posting a picture of her meal with a friend.
The caption read: “Spa days with my girl.”
From a Thailand holiday to a prison cell
Crampsie flew home from Thailand last year with a suitcase stuffed with cannabis worth around £150,000.
She went to prison in April.
She didn’t stay long.
The rule change that opened the door
In October 2025, the Scottish Government amended its Home Detention Curfew scheme.
Short-term prisoners now become eligible after serving 15% of their sentence, rather than a quarter.
On a 16-month term, 15% works out at roughly ten weeks.
Crampsie qualified and walked out with an electronic tag and a nightly curfew.
She had thousands of followers at the time of her arrest.
She has now made a shock return to posting, and the spa trip suggests she has no plans to keep a low profile.
Festival season with the ‘Scottish Barbie’
The spa wasn’t her first outing since release.
On 16 August she went to Colourfest, a dance music festival, alongside Courtney Doyle.
Doyle, the OnlyFans model dubbed the ‘Scottish Barbie’, has her own experience of avoiding prison.
She dodged jail after stamping on a woman’s head in a nightclub toilet.
They clearly have plenty to talk about.
Why It Matters
Crampsie’s comeback tests something platforms and audiences still haven’t settled: what a criminal conviction does to an influencer’s audience.
In plenty of cases, notoriety grows it. Every post from her now carries her conviction with it, whether she mentions it or not, and her engagement numbers will show whether followers care.
The bigger picture
Convicted creators returning online with their old content formats intact has become a familiar pattern, and audiences rarely punish it as hard as headlines suggest they should.
Crampsie stays on her tag and curfew until her sentence runs out.
What she posts between now and then is anyone’s guess.
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