Former The Bachelor star Matt Agnew has addressed Sam Wood\u2019s shocking domestic violence charges with a strongly-worded statement, describing the celebrity fitness guru\u2019s alleged behaviour as \u201cabhorrent\u201d.<\/p>\n
The engineer, astrophysicist and passionate science communicator, who won The Bachelor in 2019, took to social media on Tuesday to distance himself from Wood and condemn domestic violence.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s understood Wood, his wife Snezana and their daughters were staying at The Sebel in Noosa when police were called to the property about 9pm on Saturday following a report of alleged domestic violence.<\/p>\n
Queensland Police said a 46-year-old Victorian man was charged with two domestic violence related offences.<\/p>\n
Agnew said that despite knowing Wood, he wasn\u2019t going to stay quiet or defend him against the allegations he faces.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know Sam Wood,\u201d his Instagram statement began.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat does not soften where I stand.<\/p>\n
\u201cDomestic violence is abhorrent. I condemn it absolutely and unequivocally.<\/p>\n
\u201cKnowing someone is not a reason to look away. It is not a reason to stay quiet.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf anything, it creates a greater responsibility to speak clearly. And on this, there is ambiguity.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel a responsibility to say this clearly.<\/p>\n
\u201cSam and I share a connection through The Bachelor. I have met him. I know him. He has been kind and supportive to me in the past.<\/p>\n
\u201cNone of that changes where I stand.\u201d<\/p>\n
Agnew said Wood\u2019s charges, particularly the allegation of strangulation, \u201care extraordinary serious\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe behaviour alleged is abhorrent,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cI condemn domestic violence without hesitation, without reservation and in the strongest possible terms.<\/p>\n
\u201cKnowing someone does not require you to defend them. Kindness shown to me does not erase alleged harm done to somebody else.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are some lines where friendship, familiarity and personal history simply cease to matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is one of them.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy thought are with those affected. I hope they are safe, protected and surrounded by the support they deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n
Agnew\u2019s followers and friends supported his stance in the comments section, with The Bachelorette star Cam Cranley telling him it was \u201cwell put\u201d.<\/p>\n
TV personality and The Bachelorette star Angie Kent said just because people share an experience, doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re in \u201csome \u2018Bachelor Alumni\u2019 club where we blindly support each other\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you for always being such a strong voice in this space. We need more men to follow suit!\u201d<\/p>\n
Queensland Police charged Wood with assault occasioning bodily harm (domestic violence) and strangulation in a domestic setting following his Noosa arrest.<\/p>\n
He has since been stood down from his job at fitness and nutrition group 28 by Sam Wood, which he co-founded in 2016.<\/p>\n
A shared statement was released via Wood, his company, and his wife\u2019s social media channels on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a difficult time for all of us, we are working through this as a family and are thoroughly co-operating with the authorities,\u201d it read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former The Bachelor star Matt Agnew has addressed Sam Wood\u2019s shocking domestic violence charges with a strongly-worded statement,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,48,134,995,44,427],"class_list":["post-918129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-crime","tag-entertainment","tag-influencers","tag-news","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918129","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=918129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}