{"id":624461,"date":"2026-10-08T14:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624461\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:58:09","slug":"australian-reality-tv-star-denied-bail-on-domestic-violence-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624461\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian reality TV star denied bail on domestic violence charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former Bachelor reality TV star has been refused bail on domestic violence charges<\/a> after injuries to his alleged victim were debated in court.<\/p>\n

Sam Wood faced a southeast Queensland magistrate on Thursday after several nights in custody following his weekend arrest on the Sunshine Coast.<\/p>\n

The Melbourne-based fitness influencer, 46, wore a green watchhouse-issue jumper and clasped his hands together in his lap when he appeared via videolink.<\/p>\n

Wood’s father Andrew also attended court after flying in from Tasmania and sat next to his son’s barrister David Cole in the front row.<\/p>\n

Police prosecutor Jeanette Grigoris objected to bail, claiming the influencer was an unacceptable flight risk and submitted photos of the alleged victim’s injuries. <\/p>\n

“He has no connections to Queensland,” Grigoris said.<\/p>\n

“He does have the resources to essentially flee the jurisdiction.”<\/p>\n

The alleged victim had given strong evidence of claims they were choked to “cessation of breath”, Grigoris said.<\/p>\n

“[They] thought they were going to die … [they] are in fear of retribution,” she said.<\/p>\n

Paramedic assessed injuries as ‘minmal’<\/p>\n

Prosecutors would rely on a video-recorded statement by the alleged victim, who supported the charges, but had yet to secure a statement from an alleged witness, the court heard.<\/p>\n

Wood’s bail application was in a show-cause position and he needed to prove his ongoing custody was not justified.<\/p>\n

An attending paramedic’s statement about minimal injuries seemed unusual given the nature of and gravity of the alleged assault, defence solicitor Mathew Cuskelly said.<\/p>\n

Police had not submitted medical evidence and a paramedic’s report about the alleged neck injuries, the court heard.<\/p>\n

“Why not?” Cuskelly said.<\/p>\n

Wood, charged with the domestic violence offence of assault occasioning bodily harm and strangulation in a domestic setting, had no criminal record and his version of events indicated he may be entitled to a self-defence argument, his lawyer said.<\/p>\n

“There were hostilities,” Cuskelly said.<\/p>\n

“The complainant has moved towards him and continued to yell at him.<\/p>\n

“He pushed [them] away. There is denial of any strangulation.” <\/p>\n

After an hour of submissions and a 30-minute adjournment, Acting Magistrate Janelle Boegheim handed down her bail decision late on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“I’m not satisfied the applicant has shown cause,” she said.<\/p>\n

She described the prosecution case as relatively strong, saying consideration for bail could be revisited if the case strength changes.<\/p>\n

Family: ‘A difficult time for all of us’<\/p>\n

Wood was charged after police responded to reports of alleged domestic violence at a Noosa property on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

A Wood family statement addressing the charges was shared on Instagram with his 253,000 followers and his wife Snezana’s 330,000 followers.<\/p>\n

“This is a difficult time for all of us,” the statement read.<\/p>\n

“We are working through this as a family and are thoroughly co-operating with the authorities.”<\/p>\n

Wood earned a national profile as a star of The Bachelor’s third season in 2015, launching a successful home fitness business 28 By Sam Wood.<\/p>\n

He reportedly sold it in 2022 for more than AU$70 million (NZ$86.9 million) but remained the face of the online platform.<\/p>\n

The wellness businesses behind the platform cut ties with Wood on Tuesday, a day after placing him on indefinite leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Bachelor reality TV star has been refused bail on domestic violence charges after injuries to his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[85,67,156,111,139,69,417,437],"class_list":["post-624461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-australia","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-television","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624461","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=624461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}