Matty ‘J’ Johnson left very little to the imagination on Saturday as he stripped down to a pair of tiny budgie smugglers during a poolside vacation with his wife Laura Byrne.
The former Bachelor star, 37, was all smiles in an Instagram photo as he soaked up some sun in the tiny bathers, which were bright blue with red flowers on them.
Flashing his toned abs, he threw his hands up in celebration of his holiday as his love, 38, embraced him while wearing her own black two-piece bathing suit.
Laura practised sun safety as she hid her eyes behind a pair of dark sunglasses and tucked her brunette locks up beneath a blue cap.
She captioned the photo with: ‘When your 5 year old takes a better photo than most husbands.’
Laura and Matty share two daughters—Marlie-Mae, five, and Lola, four.
Matty ‘J’ Johnson, 37, left very little to the imagination on Saturday as he stripped down to a pair of tiny budgie smugglers during a poolside vacation with his wife Laura Byrne, 38
It comes after Matty slammed a viewer after they attacked him over the emotional finale of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! last month.
The reality TV star sobbed uncontrollably when he was reunited with his wife Laura and their two children after nearly five weeks in the jungle.
The fan claimed Matty was putting on crocodile tears.
‘What an overreaction, all for the cameras,’ the viewer posted.
Taking to his TikTok at the time, Matty shared the fan’s post and said he was gobsmacked by the unkind remark.
‘S*** wow. Imagine being this guy here,’ Matty said during his lengthy clapback video, which he captioned: ‘Shout out to all the men out there who have the confidence to show emotion in front of their family.’
‘When you see someone get emotional when they get reunited with their family, their wife and two kids after almost five weeks,’ he added.
‘And that person has had nothing but a single letter during that whole time. And when you see them get emotional… and you respond with a comment like this.’
Matty was on vacation with his wife Laura, who captioned the racy image: ‘When your 5 year old takes a better photo than most husbands’
Matty then went on to send a positive message to other fathers.
‘And I don’t know whether this needs to be said, maybe it does for this person,’ he said.
‘But if you’re a man out there and you cry when you see your family, it doesn’t mean you are overreacting, it doesn’t mean that you are being preformative.
‘It doesn’t make you any less of a man, it just makes you so incredibly lucky to be in touch with your emotions and to have people out there who you love and you care about. It is that simple, nothing more.’
In the lead-up to the finale, Matty’s wife Laura travelled with the pair’s two young daughters to the South African jungle.
The wholesome footage of Matty breaking down in tears as he embraced his little girls for the first time in weeks struck a chord with viewers, many of whom flocked to the IAC Instagram to say the TV moment made them cry.
But for Laura, the reality of making reality TV with kids was ‘really, really hard’.
‘I wanted them to be there because that’s such a special memory for us as a family. Not for me. I have PTSD,’ she laughed.
Laura and Matty share two daughters—Marlie-Mae, five, and Lola, four
‘Matt came out and he was so happy. He’d just had this big experience and on the receiving end of that, I felt like I’d been flogged for days,’ she added.
Matty explained that because the final episode was pre-recorded, he thought he would have three days to spend with his family.
In scenes that played out during the finale, Matty, Big Brother star Reggie Bird and NRL star Sam Thaiday were each surprised with their family members, who then watched them participate in one final challenge.
As they returned home to Sydney, there were more tears—Matty’s—as the family unit adjusted to another 24 hours of travel.
Matty admitted at one point during filming he told show producers, ‘I f***ing cannot do this,’ because he’d never spent so much time apart from his young family.
