{"id":26866,"date":"2025-07-28T06:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26866\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T06:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:43:09","slug":"peter-everett-former-ready-steady-cook-host-facing-charges-of-sexually-touching-teenage-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26866\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Everett: Former Ready Steady Cook host facing charges of sexually touching teenage boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The former host of the daytime television program Ready Steady Cook has spent a night behind bars after being accused of sexually touching a 16-year-old boy.<\/p>\n

NSW Police confirmed that Peter Everett was arrested on Saturday afternoon at a home on the NSW Central Coast following an investigation into the alleged incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing extensive inquiries, police arrested a 66-year-old man at a home in Toukley,\u201d a spokesperson from NSW Police said.<\/p>\n

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Everett was taken to Wyong Police Station, where he was charged with sexually touching another person without consent.<\/p>\n

He then spent Saturday night behind bars before appearing at Parramatta Court on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The former television star pleaded not guilty to the charge and won\u2019t appear in court again until September 3.<\/p>\n

Everett denied the allegation when he was approached outside court by Nine News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Nightly has reached out to Everett for comment.<\/p>\n

Everett took over Ready Steady Cook hosting duties from chef Nick Stratford in 2006. He hosted the show until 2011.<\/p>\n

If you or someone you know needs help, contact 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former host of the daytime television program Ready Steady Cook has spent a night behind bars after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,2331,134],"class_list":["post-26866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-culture","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26866","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=26866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}