{"id":273248,"date":"2025-11-10T01:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T01:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/273248\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T01:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T01:56:11","slug":"trailer-park-boys-actor-michael-smith-charged-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/273248\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailer Park Boys Actor Michael Smith Charged Sexual Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMichael Smith, an actor who stars as Bubbles on the cult TV series\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/trailer-park-boys\/\" id=\"auto-tag_trailer-park-boys_2\" data-tag=\"trailer-park-boys\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trailer Park Boys<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix_2\" data-tag=\"netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a>, has been charged with sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAccording to court documents filed in Nova Scotia provincial court and obtained by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., the country\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/trailer-park-boys-star-sexual-assault-charge-bubbles-9.6972349\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/trailer-park-boys-star-sexual-assault-charge-bubbles-9.6972349\" target=\"_blank\">public broadcaster<\/a>, Smith was charged on Oct. 2 in Halifax over an alleged assault that took place on Dec. 30, 2017, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. With the charge as yet unproven in a courtroom, Smith is scheduled to be arraigned on Nov. 10 in Halifax as part of a legal process led by the Nova Scotia Public Prosecutions Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSmith\u2019s agent declined to comment when The Hollywood Reporter reached out for a statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tTrailer Park Boys is a faux documentary about three petty criminals running scams from their Halifax trailer park and streams on Netflix. Trailer Park Boys Inc., the series producer, in a statement said Smith had stepped away from the series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cWe are aware of the allegation concerning Mike Smith dating back to 2017 and take such matters seriously. We recognize how difficult an allegation of this nature is for all involved. Out of respect for the legal process, we will not comment further on the case,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Halifax Regional Police Service and the Nova Scotia Public Prosecutions Service were not available for comment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Trailer Park Boys was created in 2001 by Barry Dunn, Robb Wells, John Paul Tremblay and Mike Clattenburg and originally launched on Canada\u2019s Showcase channel. The\u00a0series\u00a0ended its Canadian TV run in 2008; Netflix <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/canadian-comedy-trailer-park-boys-686271\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/canadian-comedy-trailer-park-boys-686271\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">picked up the<\/a> Trailer Park Boys property in 2014. Besides Smith as Bubbles, the mockumentary centers fellow lead characters Ricky, played by Wells, and Julian (Tremblay).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe 13th season of the Canadian series has wrapped production and is set for an April 2026 premiere. In April 2016, Smith was <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/lifestyle\/lifestyle-news\/trailer-park-boys-actor-michael-880106\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/lifestyle\/lifestyle-news\/trailer-park-boys-actor-michael-880106\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested in <\/a>Los Angeles on suspicion of misdemeanor domestic battery, but the investigation with potential charges was dropped soon afterwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Smith, an actor who stars as Bubbles on the cult TV series\u00a0Trailer Park Boys on Netflix, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,1316,34630],"class_list":["post-273248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-netflix","tag-trailer-park-boys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}