Social media influencer Braden Peters, also known as Clavicular, has pleaded not guilty to charges that he raped a 17-year-old girl at his family's home in Massachusetts. Peters, 20, is accused of giving the girl alcohol until she was drunk and then sexually assaulting her in May 2025. He has denied the allegations through his lawyers, saying the encounter was consensual. He agreed to $US10,000 bail, surrendered his passport and must not contact the woman or post about her. The woman has also filed a lawsuit in Florida, which Peters' lawyers called a publicity grab.
A social media influencer has been banned from flying with Qantas and Jetstar after inflating a life jacket inside a plane cabin. Hugh Lovett, one of four brothers behind the TikTok account The Lovetts, inflated the vest on a Jetstar flight from Sydney to Adelaide on Friday, October 16. Video of the incident shows the vest rapidly filling with a loud noise during a pre-flight safety demonstration. Jetstar said customers must follow crew safety instructions and must not tamper with safety equipment. Australian Federal Police officers met the aircraft in Adelaide.
Melbourne woman Nicole Wade says her cat Honeybelle's social media pages have earned her $70,000 in a year. The page began during the pandemic lockdown, when Wade was out of work, and quickly gained thousands of followers. Brand deals followed, and Wade left her retail job to make cat content full time. Honeybelle now has nearly 1 million followers across several platforms. Wade and her husband Peter are also working on a cookbook.
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American lifestyle influencer Jennifer G Burnham has shared her grief after the death of her four-year-old son, Baxter. She announced on Instagram that Baxter died on October 5. In a written tribute, she described him as kind, loving and fond of cars, karate and chocolate chip cookies. Burnham did not give any details about how Baxter died. In a follow-up video, she thanked followers for their messages of support. She shares a son, Barron, with her husband, Bryce Burnham.
US influencer Ryan Pownall has claimed that a night with Aussie OnlyFans star Annie Knight led to her engagement to Henry Brayshaw. In a video posted to his 1.1 million followers, Pownall said he and Knight kissed on a date in Los Angeles, and that Brayshaw proposed two days later. He also claimed the couple married because of him. Knight, 29, married Brayshaw earlier this month at The Valley Estate in Currumbin Valley, Queensland, before a small group of guests. James Brayshaw, Henry's father, was not present.
Online fitness trainer Sam Wood will take his bail fight to the Supreme Court of Queensland after a magistrate refused him bail. Police allege he assaulted his wife Snezana at a Noosa property on Saturday night. He faces charges of assault occasioning bodily harm and strangulation in a domestic setting. Police prosecutors told the Maroochydore Magistrates Court he posed an unacceptable risk of committing further offences, citing an alleged earlier incident in Victoria, which he denies. Acting Magistrate Janelle Boegheim remanded him in custody until November 23.
Sam Wood’s stepdaughter has re-shared an Instagram video captioned ‘I love my mum’ amid domestic violence charges against her stepfather. Police and paramedics were called to a luxury villa in Noosa on Saturday night. Wood, 46, is charged with assault and strangulation in a domestic setting and was denied bail on Thursday. His lawyer plans to argue self-defence if the case goes to trial.
