Cast Member From Australia’s Version Of ‘Jersey Shore’ Charged In Homophobic Attack
Filed under: Totally GAY!, TV Shows
Author: Patrick
Date: Aug 26, 2012
A cast member from Australia’s version of Jersey Shore called The Shire has been charged in a despicable homophobic attack.
The alleged homophobic attack took place on Thursday night in Surry Hills, also involving two other cast members from the show. Daniel “Folkesy” Folkes (24) was arrested just before midnight after allegedly urinating on a man while the other two cast members (27 and 28 years old) dished out homophobic slurs to the man.
The three guys were out celebrating a birthday when they started attacking a guy who was sitting alone on the steps at the corner of Riley Street and Goulbourn Street.
While resisting arrest, the guy was apparently bragging to police that he was the star of a TV show. The drama with this crew seems to be ongoing, with cast members Vernesa Toroman and Sophie Kalantzis were involved in a suspected knife attack outside a cafe. The network that airs the show, Channel Ten, has not commented on the gay attack incident.
Like Jersey Shore, this show has received a lot of criticism saying that it doesn’t portray the community in a good light and that it’s just plain trash. This incident certainly doesn’t help the situation either.
Below is an image that shows the cliques in the show and how each person relates to one another. You’ll find “Folksey” in the fourth row down on the right, next to Jye who was apparently one of the other guys in the incident.
‘The Shire’ Cliques
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andrew
August 26th, 2012 at 9:40 pm
This is all even less interesting than Snooky. Apparently White Trash behaves the same way down under that they do here.
Brendan
August 26th, 2012 at 11:31 pm
Another closeted gay guy taking out his frustration on someone else. But dude, not everyone is into golden showers, so you need to ask first and not be so mean about it – then you could get your rocks off with being such an asshole about it.
Dbrewer75
August 26th, 2012 at 11:49 pm
Sorry that lame nose ring just screams closet case to me. It amazes me that people find shows like this entertainment.
JMC
August 27th, 2012 at 4:56 am
Though tragic I found this interesting just because of the single episode of the show I watched, the premiere, the story he was involved in was of his obsessive fixation with his bestfriend and frustration at him spending increasingly less time with him and more with his girlfriend. He became agitated with his bestfriend when he arrived to hang out with the girlfriend in tow. Promos for future episodes showed him getting in a fight with his friends girlfriend for always being around and occupying too much of his time. The whole time I watched it my closet-dar was going haywire, his jealous preoccupation with the bestfriend was suspect.
Folksey Pee on Me
September 17th, 2012 at 4:57 pm
He’s hot! I wudn’t mind him peeing on me..at least i’d have a face to face interaction with his d*ck..maybe take pics and sell it if ever he becomes a name!