Disgraced former participant agent Ricky Nixon will possible be charged over an alleged assault on A Present Affair reporter Seb Costello.
Sources inside Channel 9 have instructed Day by day Mail Australia Costello made a press release with Victoria Police detectives on Wednesday night time, hours after Nixon was filmed showing to elbow him within the face.
Costello had been accompanied by Channel 7 information reporter Tegan Dolling in questioning Nixon as he walked down Bay Road in Port Melbourne, simply outdoors of Melbourne’s CBD, when Nixon lashed out.
Channel 7 reporter Tegan Dolling seems to be on in horror as Ricky Nixon seems to elbows ACA’s Seb Costello within the face
Nixon later appeared to push previous Dolling (pictured) as he tried to get into his condominium block
Ricky Nixon was caught in mattress with 17-year previous Kim Duthie in 2011 – the scandal ended Nixon’s profession as a participant supervisor
Disturbing footage aired on ACA that night time confirmed Nixon sarcastically apologise to Costello after showing to crack the unsuspecting reporter within the jaw.
The 59-year previous adopted up on social media in a publish that has since obtained slightly over 300 feedback – most of which applaud his actions.
‘God i want the media would get it proper – i assumed i kicked him then stabbed him, slashed him then ran over him in my automotive after which completed him off with #TootToot !!! And obtained a standing ovation in Bay St,’ Nixon posted.
‘Match Assessment Panel mentioned he ducked and ran in to it and that it was unintended. #ChickenGoesBANG.’
Sources have instructed Day by day Mail Australia the alleged assault required Costello to hunt medical consideration.
The reporters had been trying to query Nixon about his newest well being enterprise, which was to see the previous footballer promote IV infusions.
Nixon had appeared on the entrance web page of Melbourne’s Herald Solar newspaper on Wednesday after he was slammed by the Australian Medical Affiliation Victoria president Roderick McRae.
Nixon introduced this week he was accepting bookings after hanging up a partnership to supply IV Infusions for $350 for many who ‘desire a completely revitalised life and really feel’.
Nixon and fiancee Melissa Huynh
Nixon seems to elbow reporter Tegan Dolling out of the way in which as he enters his Port Melbourne condominium block
ACA information hound Seb Costello claims he was interviewing Ricky Nixon when he was attacked
Costello, who’s the son of former Australian treasurer Peter Costello, refused to remark when contacted by Day by day Mail Australia on Thursday.
Footage captured by his digital camera crew confirmed an irate Nixon additionally seem to shove his elbow into Dolling as he tried to barge previous her to enter his condominium block.
‘You’ve already elbowed me, now you’re going to push her out of the way in which,’ Costello instructed Nixon.
When Nixon reappeared later, he confronted Costello whereas he was doing a dwell cross on Melbourne’s 3AW radio.
Video aired on ACA final night time confirmed Nixon pointing at Costello after which going through off with him as he continued the radio interview.
‘Mr Nixon, relax,’ Costello instructed him.
‘We are able to de-escalate it, however you could transfer out of my house please.’
Because the reporters continued to chase him alongside Bay Road, Nixon doubled down on his alleged elbow of Dolling.
‘I really like pushing the media out of the way in which cos you’re a bunch of low life canines,’ he instructed the pair.
‘You’ve obtained youngsters. How would you are feeling if individuals acted like that to your youngsters,’ Dolling requested Nixon.
‘I reckon they’d in all probability punch you within the head to be sincere,’ Nixon replied.
ACA’s Seb Costello throughout his dwell cross to 3AW. He’s seen making an attempt to placate an offended Ricky Nixon
Ritual Biohacking, the medical firm which was partnering with Nixon on the IV fusion enterprise, instructed ACA it was severing ties with Nixon following his Bat Road efficiency.
‘Ritual Biohacking is dedicated companies that meet the calls for of our shoppers,’ it instructed this system.
‘This partnership (with Nixon) will not be continuing.’
On Thursday, Nixon’s girlfriend Melissa Huynh took to social media to defend her man’s well being enterprise utilizing the hashtags ‘#mediaflogs’, ‘#getalife’ and ‘#leaveusalone’.
‘Doesn’t matter what he does and says … they (the media) will eternally attempt to discredit him and wreck him. He’s residing a jail sentence of their eyes. Unhappy however true. Think about if it was their lives? Think about if this occurred to their household and pals??,’ she wrote.
Whereas not endorsing Nixon’s media relations expertise in her now deleted publish, Huynh did approve of feedback claiming Costello obtained what he deserved.
Whereas these following the pair largely agreed with Nixon’s atrocious behaviour, some branded him the coward he’s.
‘He is likely to be a reporter, however that was a coward punch,’ one man wrote.
‘You’re a flog. Time to develop up. Your youngsters should be embarrassed by your behaviour,’ a girl posted.
Nixon instructed the Herald Solar on Wednesday he was joyful to co-operate with police over the assault allegations.
The photograph that introduced Nixon undone in 2011. Kim Duthie had snapped him in his jocks in a lodge room.
Kim Duthie leaves the Supreme Court docket of Victoria in 2015 whereas preventing Nixon’s plans to publish a tell-all e-book
‘If he needs to hold on about it and say it’s assault than go to the police, mate I’ll welcome them to my doorbell,’ he mentioned.
Nixon isn’t any stranger to court docket rooms, or accusations he’s a coward.
In 2013, he was sentenced to a 24-month neighborhood corrections order for assaulting his former fiancee Tegan Gould.
Two years earlier he had suffered a spectacular fall from grace after being caught in mattress with 17-year previous Kim Duthie – recognized then because the ‘St Kilda Schoolgirl’.
Nixon had been on the peak of his powers on the time, together with his company Flying Begin dwelling to a few of the AFL’s largest names, together with Wayne Carey, Gary Ablett Sr, Jason Dunstall and Tony Lockett.
His relationship with Duthie – now referred to as Kim Ametoglou – noticed his agent license suspended for participating in an ‘inappropriate private relationship’ and ended his profession managing footballers.
Since then he has by no means been distant from controversy, courtrooms and reporters.
The previous AFL participant, who performed for St Kilda and Hawthorn, has a historical past of run-ins with the media.
In 2013 Nixon was leaving a Port Melbourne café when he tossed sizzling espresso over 9 Information reporter Dougal Beatty.
One other time he threw espresso on a court docket photographer after a foul-mouth rant.
That adopted the livid participant supervisor’s first court docket meltdown after being instructed an alcohol interlock system was to be fitted to his automotive for a yr.
Nixon is usually seen at court docket contesting trivial fines and at current is listed to seem once more on alleged dashing issues.
It isn’t the primary time Nixon has butted heads with Costello.
Simply final yr Costello faced-off with him over allegations he was promoting dud signatures on footballs to followers.
Whereas police confirmed they had been investigating these allegations, Nixon is but to face any costs.
In 2019 Nixon began cell medical clinic Very important Well being Checks, visiting places of work and worksites in a van to offer busy employees 20-minute bodily and psychological checks.
He had his personal psychological well being points in October that yr when he was taken to hospital after making suicidal threats.
Nixon offers ‘the chicken’ outdoors the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court docket in 2018. He had been up on a visitors offence
