Fans of Aussie actor Jacob Elordi are rallying behind the Saltburn star following his alleged run-in with KIIS FM radio staffer Joshua Fox at a popular Sydney pub over the weekend.
The altercation allegedly unfolded outside the Clovelly Hotel in Sydney’s eastern suburbs at about 3.30pm on Saturday.
NSW Police said an investigation had been launched after a 32-year-old was allegedly assaulted by a 26-year-old.
Fox broke his silence on his shock confrontation with Elordi on The Kyle and Jackie O show on Monday morning, and alleged the Euphoria star grabbed him by the throat and pushed him against a wall.
He also alleged fanatics of Hollywood’s latest leading man have sent him ‘death threats’ over the incident.
Fans of Aussie actor Jacob Elordi (left) have rallied behind the Saltburn star following his alleged run-in with KIIS FM radio staffer Joshua Fox (right) at a popular Sydney pub over the weekend
‘Overnight I’ve had to lock all my socials because I’m getting death threats, hate, from his fans because no one knows the full story,’ Fox said.
A glance at social media shows swaths of Elordi’s fans have flocked to Twitter and Reddit to praise Elordi and slam Fox for approaching the movie star while he was enjoying afternoon drinks with friends.
‘I have a hard time believing Jacob Elordi would attack a reporter in broad daylight during an outing with friends knowing how much he has at stake lol. It’s giving reporter wants a pay day,’ one fan wrote on Twitter.
Another person posted on Reddit: ‘The quickest I’ve sided with a celebrity.’
‘I can picture how bad the questions would be when Josh works for Kyle [Sandilands] and Jackie [Henderson],’ someone else wrote.
Another said: ‘So we calling paparazzi reporters now? Dude didn’t have any injuries and was provoking him lmfao.’
Others defended Fox’s over the ‘troubling’ incident, with one person writing on Twitter: ‘This incident is deeply troubling and raises serious concerns.’
‘Just when I start to like Jacob Elordi, he goes and does this,’ a second added.
A glance at social media shows swaths of Elordi’s fans have flocked to Twitter and Reddit to slam Fox for approaching the movie star after he was enjoying afternoon drinks with friends, and praise Elordi
Others rushed to Fox’s defence over the ‘troubling’ incident, with one person writing on Twitter: ‘This incident is deeply troubling and raises serious concerns’
Fox was sent to the Clovelly Hotel by KIIS FM to create a video of Elordi, who was there with two men and a woman.
He said he waited for The Kissing Booth actor to leave the venue before approaching him.
Fox playfully and politely asked the actor for a sample of his bathwater as a gift for radio host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson.
The request is a reference to an infamous scene in Elordi’s runaway hit film, in which another character drinks Elordi’s character’s used bathwater.
He then alleged Elordi, who stands at 1.96m, ‘got up in his face’ and ‘backed him against a wall’, as his two male friends surrounded him on either side, preventing Fox from stepping away.
Fox broke his silence on his shock confrontation with Elordi on The Kyle and Jackie O show on Monday morning, and alleged the Euphoria star grabbed him by the throat and pushed him against a wall
He also revealed fanatics of Hollywood’s latest leading man have sent him ‘death threats’ over the incident. Pictured with radio star Jackie ‘O’ Henderson
‘[I was] feeling quite intimidated that and I’m thinking something’s gonna happen here because I can’t move. They’re all surrounding me against this wall,’ Fox said.
He then claimed Elordi demanded that he delete footage of the incident.
Fox said he initially obliged and deleted the file, but when Elordi then asked him to delete it from his recently deleted files folder, Fox refused.
‘I’m thinking if I delete this footage, there’s no evidence that this encounter happened,’ Fox said.
He claimed Elordi started ‘acting aggressively’, saying he felt ‘intimidated’ by the situation.
Fox said that Elordi then allegedly ‘flipped’, before allegedly pushing him against a wall and grabbing him by the throat.
Elordi is pictured at the Clovelly Hotel with a male friend on Saturday before the incident
Pictured: The Clovelly Hotel in Sydney
Fox then claimed that one of Elordi’s two male friends jumped in to pull the actor off him.
Moments later, Fox said he quickly walked back towards the pub, prompting one of Elordi’s male friends to follow him.
The male friend allegedly approached Fox and demanded that he not talk to the press.
‘[He told me], “Make sure that video goes nowhere. make sure you tell no one about this”, making me shake his hand. Again, I felt intimidated by it,’ Fox claimed.
Audio from the run-in was also played on Monday morning’s episode of The Kyle and Jackie O Show.
In it, video producer Fox approached Elordi with an empty jar and asked the actor if he could fill it with his bathwater and ‘send it to the studio’ for host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson, who Fox claimed is ‘a huge fan of the movie Saltburn’.
‘You’re kidding,’ an apparently-annoyed Elordi replied.
‘Are you filming?’ he then asked, with Fox confirming he was.
‘Can you not man, please?’ Elordi said.
Co-host Kyle Sandilands claimed Elordi compelled Fox to delete the footage, however he was later able to retrieve it from his recently deleted files.
In the audio, Fox’s request was politely made, and Fox seemed to quickly comply with Elordi’s request to cease filming.
Jackie said: ‘When Josh heard that Jacob was at one of the hotels nearby on Saturday afternoon, he went down there. He didn’t want to invade his privacy so he didn’t go inside the hotel, he waited outside.
‘Apparently [Fox] thought it would be funny to give him this Tupperware container that said “Jacob’s bathwater” written on it and Jacob didn’t love that.’
Daily Mail Australia can reveal police have seized CCTV of the confrontation and alleged assault.
‘The man did not sustain any injuries,’ a NSW Police spokesperson said.
‘Inquiries into the incident is continuing.’
Elordi, who recently starred in the blockbuster film Saltburn, was at the hotel and socialising before the alleged incident unfolded
Celebrity entertainment reporter Peter Ford also weighed in on the incident later on The Kyle And Jackie O Show, arguing that Fox provoked Elordi.
Elordi raised eyebrows earlier this month when he made disparaging remarks about The Kissing Booth movie franchise, which he starred in between 2018 and 2021, in his GQ Men of the Year cover story.
‘I didn’t want to make those movies before I made those movies,’ he told the publication, adding: ‘Those movies are ridiculous. They’re not universal. They’re an escape.’
But fans of The Kissing Booth have slammed Elordi online, calling him ‘ungrateful’ and ‘disrespectful’ to his former colleagues.
‘Jacob Elordi needs to understand that when you crap on a project like he has, he’s also crapping on his co-stars, the creators, and especially the fans,’ one user wrote.
‘Those movies are important to a lot of fans. Don’t dismiss them because you suddenly moved up a peg,’ they added.
Elordi is currently Down Under filming his role as Australian Imperial Force soldier Dorrigo Evans in Amazon Prime Video’s five-part adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s 2013 novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Another agreed: ‘I dislike actors who belittle their humble beginnings, where their careers began.’
The Kissing Booth was Elordi’s second feature film role and – thanks to record breaking binging by fans – he soon became a household name.
Elordi is currently Down Under filming his role as Australian Imperial Force soldier Dorrigo Evans in Amazon Prime Video’s five-part adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s 2013 novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
He will next reprise his role as ‘psychopathic’ East Highland High School quarterback Nate Jacobs in the third season of Euphoria (featuring a five-year time jump), which began filming in December.
Daily Mail Australia contacted Elordi and Clovelly Hotel for comment.
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