{"id":367469,"date":"2026-04-07T07:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/367469\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T07:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:24:07","slug":"laura-byrnes-wild-40th-party-ends-in-egging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/367469\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Byrne\u2019s \u2018wild\u2019 40th party ends in egging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reality star\u2019s 40th birthday bash has ended in chaos after furious neighbours decided to take revenge on the noisy partygoers. <\/p>\n<p>Former Bachelor winner, Laura Byrne, hosted a backyard party at her North Bondi home to celebrate the milestone alongside her nearest and dearest.<\/p>\n<p>However, the evening took a \u201cmessy\u201d turn when angry neighbours begun pelting eggs over the fence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had my 40th birthday party on the weekend and there\u2019s nothing that has ever screamed more \u2018millennial mums gone wild\u2019\u201d, the mum-of-three shared on her Life Uncut podcast.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:<a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realestate.com.au\/news\/top-australian-suburbs-for-reality-tv-filming-revealed\/?campaignType=external&amp;campaignChannel=syndication&amp;campaignName=ncacont&amp;campaignContent=&amp;campaignSource=newscomau&amp;campaignPlacement=realestatemodule\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"www.realestate.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Top Aus suburbs for reality TV filming revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The media personality admitted that she was having an absolute blast and completely \u201clost track of time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel so sorry for my neighbours,\u201d she shared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know it was midnight, and all of a sudden I hear: \u2018I\u2019ve been hit!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy 40th birthday party ended with us being egged in the backyard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"poster-img\" src=\"https:\/\/content.api.news\/v3\/images\/bin\/ad6bfc5df93b3743fdb22719f2b59da4\" data-sctrack=\"op-poster-img\" alt=\"\u2018Terrified\u2019: Aussie star enters new life chapter\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Her co-host and fellow reality star Brittany Hockley, who\u2019d left the party earlier in the evening, was stunned to hear how the festivities ended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s really dangerous. From a high trajectory, that could be really painful,\u201d Hockley exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realestate.com.au\/news\/inside-the-golden-bachelor-sydney-mansion\/?campaignType=external&amp;campaignChannel=syndication&amp;campaignName=ncacont&amp;campaignContent=&amp;campaignSource=newscomau&amp;campaignPlacement=realestatemodule\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"www.realestate.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Inside the Golden Bachelor Sydney mansion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, Byrne saw the funny side of the midnight confrontation, noting the situation could have been much worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI woke up the next day and I thought, full respect to my neighbour for not calling the police,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Laura Byrne got arrested on her 40th, nothing would have made me happier,\u201d Hockley joked.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the dramatic turn of events, the evening appeared to be a huge success.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Instagram to share snaps of the event, Byrne was all smiles in a dazzling red dress as she cuddled her family outside their home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always said I wanted to go to Europe for my 40th, but that feels rather audacious now that there are three kids in the mix,\u201d she <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWdgPm_CZBD\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told her followers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we brought a little Capri to Bondi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The intimate gathering featured canapes made by a private chef, while guests were serenaded by local Bondi singer Louis Sam Green.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncredibly grateful to have such wonderful people in my life, surrounded by love, a smoke machine and some terrible dance moves is everything I could have asked for,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Fans were quick to flood the comments section of her post, and poked fun at the \u201cwild\u201d end to the evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrowing eggs in this economy!?\u201d one person joked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould rather have the cops rock up than being egged! Less mess!\u201d a second wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a real 40th unless the cops get called or you get egged by your neighbours,\u201d another teased.<\/p>\n<p>Byrne first shot to fame in 2017 after winning the heart of her now-husband Matty Johnson on The Bachelor.<\/p>\n<p>The loved-up couple tied the knot in 2022 and enjoy a busy and vibrant lifestyle living in Sydney\u2019s eastern suburbs, where they\u2019re raising their three young daughters.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old has built a massive broadcasting empire, co-hosting the popular Life Uncut podcast alongside Hockley.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A reality star\u2019s 40th birthday bash has ended in chaos after furious neighbours decided to take revenge on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[192730,192719,173789,85,2652,192725,90232,51213,35594,430,192713,192731,156,160723,192720,192714,192722,192728,33883,192727,192717,2648,111,139,192726,69,2659,192724,55479,192716,192723,1734,192715,192729,192718,192721,36045],"class_list":{"0":"post-367469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-absolute-blast","9":"tag-angry-neighbours","10":"tag-aussie-star","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","13":"tag-ben-roberts-smith","14":"tag-birthday-bash","15":"tag-birthday-party","16":"tag-bondi","17":"tag-celebrities","18":"tag-comments-section","19":"tag-cops-rock","20":"tag-entertainment","21":"tag-laura-byrne","22":"tag-lost-track","23":"tag-loved-up-couple","24":"tag-massive-broadcasting-empire","25":"tag-matty-johnson","26":"tag-media-personality","27":"tag-midnight-confrontation","28":"tag-naomi-kaplan","29":"tag-new-south-wales","30":"tag-new-zealand","31":"tag-newzealand","32":"tag-north-bondi","33":"tag-nz","34":"tag-oceania","35":"tag-party-ends","36":"tag-reality-star","37":"tag-rowdy-partygoers","38":"tag-smoke-machine","39":"tag-sydney","40":"tag-terrible-dance-moves","41":"tag-throwing-eggs","42":"tag-tributes-flow","43":"tag-vibrant-lifestyle","44":"tag-young-daughters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}