Tobias Strebel, who parlayed his obsession with looking like singer Justin Bieber into reality TV stardom, was found dead Friday in a Motel 6 room in Los Angeles, sources tell EW.com.

The 35-year-old was reported missing three days before his body was found, reports TMZ. No cause of death has been announced, but police say that medications were found in Strebel's room.

Strebel has appeared on such shows as My Strange Addiction and Botched, where he admitting to spending $100,000 to look like Bieber. He was also pursuing his own musical career, including writing and recording his own music.

“The gift of writing music is not something you can learn. You can have to have that inner creativity; you have to have something to say. You have to be lyrically gifted,” he said in 2014. “You have to know what’s catchy. It’s just something I’ve come to master.”

 

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