{"id":178530,"date":"2025-09-29T22:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T22:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/178530\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T22:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T22:03:06","slug":"bailey-smith-under-fire-for-mad-monday-social-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/178530\/","title":{"rendered":"Bailey Smith under fire for Mad Monday social posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

A controversial social media post from Geelong star Bailey Smith has drawn the ire of Mitch Brown, who has called it anti-gay.<\/p>\n

Brown, the first AFL<\/a> player to publicly reveal he is bisexual, was unimpressed after Smith made a series of Instagram posts from the Cats’ Mad Monday function.<\/p>\n

One of the posts featured Smith and captain Patrick Dangerfield in a pose referencing the movie Brokeback Mountain, which depicted the story of a complex romantic relationship between two American cowboys.<\/p>\n

Bailey Smith has come under fire for his Mad Monday social posts.\u00a0Cameron Spencer\/AFL Photos\/via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Brown first published a picture of deceased Australian actor Heath Ledger, who played one of the lead characters in the movie.<\/p>\n

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“Just for the record, Heath Ledger’s way hotter,” Brown joked.<\/p>\n

But then Brown added in a separate post: “In all seriousness though, guys do better.<\/p>\n

“Last time I checked, losing a grand final doesn’t make you gay, but being homophobic definitely makes you a loser.”<\/p>\n

Geelong players had their Mad Monday function two days after a crushing 47-point grand final loss to Brisbane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A controversial social media post from Geelong star Bailey Smith has drawn the ire of Mitch Brown, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-178530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}