A London man who rose to fame performing stunts on YouTube before the online video provider pulled the plug on his channel amid media reports of his criminal past is facing child pornography charges.

David Rock, 51, is charged with two counts of possession of child pornography and one count of accessing child pornography, London police said Thursday.

When contacted Thursday, Rock said the charges are related to a nudist video.

“It’s a nudist video. There’s no sexual content whatsoever,” said Rock, who described himself as a nudist. “That’s all I’m going to say.”

Rock landed in the Internet limelight in 2009 after his YouTube channel Davidsfarm, featuring Rock performing driving stunts at his Lucan farm, generated around 100 million hits worldwide.

The channel proved lucrative for Rock, earning him upwards of $15,000 a month through YouTube’s profit-sharing agreement.

But Rock’s sudden fame also led to a Free Press report that uncovered Rock was a convicted sex offender.

Court records show he was jailed for one year after being convicted of several charges in the early 1990s, including sexual exploitation of what court records refer to as “young persons.”

Rock has said they were teenage boys he encouraged to masturbate while he videotaped them.

Other convictions were for sexual assault on two children whose genitals he said he touched and videotaped.

More than a year after media reports of Rock’s criminal past surfaced, Google, the owner of YouTube, pulled the London stuntman’s channel in December 2010.

Though Davidsfarm disappeared from YouTube for a short period, it was back online within days. Today, it features 277 videos and has more than eight million views.

Calls and e-mails to Google weren’t returned Thursday.

Police say the most recent charges stem from a police search of homes in London and Lucan.

Rock was arrested but has since been released from custody.

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David Rock

- 51-year-old stuntman

- Lives in London and owns farm in Lucan

- Was most-viewed Canadian content provider on YouTube in 2010

- Made upwards of $15,000 a month from YouTube profit-sharing

- Self-described nudist

- Convicted sex offender