Celebrity-obsessed selfie-seeker Beau Lamarre-Condon charged with murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies

Beau Lamarre-Condon was celebrity-­obsessed and gossip-driven but he made headlines after being charged with the murders of former partner Jesse Baird and his ex’s new boyfriend, Luke Davies.

Beau Lamarre with Taylor Swift. He was obsessed with celebrities.

When Beau Lamarre-Condon quit his job at Big W after finishing high school, he kept one piece of memorabilia to take with him: his electric blue uniform.

Why? Well, as he told his friends, he hoped to use it to “sneak in” to the head office when Khloe Kardashian was representing the brand in 2015.

Such was the chutzpah of the young Lamarre. Celebrity-­obsessed and gossip-driven, with an apparent strong penchant for luxury hotel rooms, black credit cards, fancy cars, the Golden Globes and even private jets.

He loved the champagne lifestyle. He loved snapping selfies with the rich and famous. He loved being spotted around Sydney’s most lucrative suburbs, sometimes in the front seat of a Tesla.

This week, however, he made headlines across Australia after being charged with the murders of former partner Jesse Baird and his ex’s new boyfriend, Luke Davies.

Lamarre, who swapped chasing celebrities for chasing criminals when he became a rookie cop in 2018, appeared before a magistrate in Waverley Local Court on Friday afternoon, refusing to look at anyone but the magistrate.

The bodies of the two men have not yet been found.

Many questions have been raised in the Australian entertainment world about the 28-year-old who would post about his extravagant lifestyle while quietly driving his mother’s 2012 model grey Holden Cruze sedan.

Some speculated he was racking up enormous amounts of debt. After all, he did boast about having four “black cards” in his own name.

He has raised eyebrows for more than a decade, posting seemingly candid flicks with A-listers, accompanied by captions written as if he were spending time with them.

That was far from the truth.

Beau Lamarre with Lady Gaga ....

and Lorde ...

... and Harry Styles.

In the past decade, his obsession with celebrities found him spending hours in his mother’s car outside hotels, before approaching – sometimes begging – for a selfie to publish online. One opportunistic social media post with singer Dua Lipa was captioned “outdoor bars & blurry nights”, giving the impression they were besties.

He never grew out of it. Just last week, the police officer was staking out the mansion where Kourtney Kardashian was staying in Sydney’s ritzy Bellevue Hill.

“When Keeping up with the Kardashian’s take Sydney! Sneaky onset selfies …” he wrote after ambushing the couple at an eastern suburbs wharf.

In recent weeks Lamarre, who grew up in the southern Sutherland Shire, was spotted driving around Rose Bay in a Tesla SUV, telling associates he had launched a swimsuit line and was going to begin training with the Protection Operations Unit – the group responsible for the security of politicians, diplomats and other public dignitaries.

He made a name for himself in Australia’s entertainment scene in 2012 when he attended red carpets, and ran amateur gossip blogs That’s The Tea and TheAustralianReporter.com.

“I think he thought he was going to be the Australian version of Perez Hilton,” said one industry insider.

Lamarre would make a few hundred dollars here and there selling his selfies – in the hope they’d give him more publicity – and teamed up with local paparazzi to nab his picture.

It’s hard to picture this former gossip reporter and superfan likely spending the night within the Special Management and Protection Program at Silver­water’s Metropolitan Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre, having swapped his silk printed shirts for a green all-in-one.