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Amid the sea of wealthy shoppers clad in white linen strolling Noosa\u2019s luxury boutiques, former reality television star Sam Wood soaked in the warm weather last week with his daughters.<\/p>\n

The towering fitness guru stood out to locals on the idyllic Hastings Street on Queensland\u2019s Sunshine Coast.<\/p>\n

He and his family had joined the hordes of Victorians lapping up Noosa\u2019s pristine sand in the final days of the school holidays. Wood was easily spotted as the face of one of Australia\u2019s most successful online fitness businesses, with a quarter of a million Instagram followers.<\/p>\n

\"NoosaNoosa Main Beach beside Hastings Street.Paul Smith<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was just walking, and the girls were eating an ice-cream, walking across,\u201d one worker, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, recalled to this masthead.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey seemed to be having a nice time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wood\u2019s stepdaughter was also seen filming content outside La Mer, the $3000-a-night luxury boutique apartment where Wood was reportedly staying.<\/p>\n

\"SamSam Wood with wife Snezana.<\/p>\n

By Saturday night, the supposedly blissful escape ended in the arrest of the former Bachelor star.<\/p>\n

One worker recalled seeing police cars flash past and into Hastings Street in the evening\u2019s final trading hours. The 46-year-old Victorian would spend the next four nights behind bars in Queensland.<\/p>\n

National headlines on Sunday night exposed details of Wood\u2019s arrest on domestic violence charges of assault occasioning bodily harm and strangulation. His fitness empire has since unravelled and corporate partners have abandoned him en masse.<\/p>\n

The multimillionaire and his wife, Snezana, whom he met on the Bachelor, both released a statement as Wood remained behind bars. \u201cThis is a difficult time for all of us, we are working through this as a family and are co-operating with authorities,\u201d it read.<\/p>\n

Family returns to Melbourne<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Wood will be represented by barrister David Cole and lawyer Mathew Cuskelly in Maroochydore Magistrates\u2019 Court, where he will make his bid for freedom.<\/p>\n

But members of his immediate family have already returned to their home in Melbourne\u2019s Brighton, with the couple\u2019s young children heading back to school as the final term of the 2026 year began.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, there was much activity at the Woods\u2019 home, with friends and supporters visiting the house, where the businessman\u2019s Mercedes-Benz G-wagon with personalised number plates sat idle in the driveway, shielded by a high gate to the street.<\/p>\n

Alongside Wood\u2019s dispute with the Australian Tax Office, which was only settled in August after the ATO launched legal proceedings against the former 28 Group owner alleging $7.3 million in unpaid taxes and fees, this masthead can reveal the corporate regulator has also taken action in recent months against the now-alleged domestic violence perpetrator.<\/p>\n

\"FormerFormer Bachelor star Sam Wood is charged with domestic violence offences in Queensland. His lawyer says Wood will defend the charges.<\/p>\n

One of Wood\u2019s corporate vehicles, The Woodshed Group Pty Ltd, of which he was a director and major shareholder, was struck off the register of Australian companies at the end of August after the group failed to pay fees and meet other renewal requirements for several years running.<\/p>\n

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission initiated the deregistration in June, including publication of its proposed deregistration, with the entity struck off on August 30.<\/p>\n

A company\u2019s annual review includes a declaration of solvency. An ASIC spokesperson declined to comment on the action.<\/p>\n

According to the ASIC website, the most common reason the regulator initiates a company\u2019s deregistration \u201cis because it has not paid its annual review fee in full for at least 12 months after the due date\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"AA lawyer for Sam Wood, Mathew Cuskelly, speaks with journalists outside\u00a0Maroochydore Magistrates\u2019 Court on Monday morning. <\/p>\n

According to the 28 by Sam Wood website, The Woodshed is the gym in Brighton owned by Wood, which he founded in 2014.<\/p>\n

Personal trainers, who are subcontractors of The Woodshed, were running business-as-usual classes on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Wood remains the front-facing personality of the business on its website. He was also featured in a video on The Woodshed\u2019s Instagram account in late September.<\/p>\n

Phone calls to the gym\u2019s public membership line go straight to voicemail, which is a recording from Wood himself. Click-through links to sign up for memberships and deals at the gym appeared to be broken.<\/p>\n

\"WoodWood met his wife Snezana on The Bachelor Australia.Channel Ten<\/p>\n

Before Wood\u2019s company came under pressure from the corporate cop, the Australian Tax Office sued him personally, claiming the fitness entrepreneur owed $7.3 million in unpaid taxes.<\/p>\n

The ATO first issued Wood with three notices that he failed to pay income tax in May 2025.<\/p>\n

According to a writ filed in the County Court, Wood owed the tax office $4,037,461 for the year ended June 30, 2022. Wood paid $14,747.12 in income tax that year, the same year he sold his business to Bastas for $71 million.<\/p>\n

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The ATO alleged Wood owed $102,023.20 in unpaid liabilities in the year to June 30, 2023, and claimed he owed a further $3,189,107 in the year to June 30, 2024.<\/p>\n

According to corporate filings, Wood resigned as a director from the company he sold to Bastas \u2013 Australian Life Tech, the parent of 28 by Sam Wood \u2013 in 2024 as well.<\/p>\n

The terms of Wood\u2019s deal with Bastas remain private, including a payment schedule. The Australian Financial Review reported in 2022 the cash and share deal with Australian Life Tech would see Wood become an investor in myDNA \u2013 a company linked with Bastas \u2013 holding a 5 per cent stake.<\/p>\n

But this masthead has confirmed through corporate records that Wood does not have an equity stake in the business.<\/p>\n

Abandoned by corporate partners<\/p>\n

Corporate groups that previously partnered with Wood\u2019s 28 Group all stressed they no longer had links with the former reality contestant.<\/p>\n

A Bupa spokesperson said the private health insurer offered online fitness classes through Wood\u2019s business for a short time during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Woolworths said the supermarket giant no longer had any commercial arrangements with Wood or his companies, adding that it had not stocked any products related to Wood since 2024.<\/p>\n

As well, a spokesperson from vitamin conglomerate Blackmores said their contract with the 28 Group \u2013 which included access to the 28 by Sam Wood program in exchange for Blackmores membership \u2013 concluded in 2022.<\/p>\n

Seek, which partnered with Wood for one \u201ccareer conversations\u201d video, said they had a one-off project with Wood eight years ago.<\/p>\n

Wood\u2019s face and personal brand were swiftly scrubbed from his namesake 28 by Sam Wood website on Wednesday. It came after Bastas\u2019 DBG group revealed it had terminated its contract with him a day earlier.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe couple at a race day in 2016. <\/p>\n

Images of his wife Snezana remain, while smiling images of Wood, including in the eight-week challenge and in the team members section, have disappeared.<\/p>\n

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