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News.com.au
09-08-2025
- News.com.au
‘We can find out anything and everything': Indy Clinton discusses online trolling and plastic surgery
After being trolled online mercilessly and for years, well-known influencer and mum-of-three Indy Clinton finally took matters into her own hands: she hired a private investigator to find out who, exactly, was behind the anonymous accounts leaving brutal comments on her social media posts. In a new interview with the Stellar podcast Something To Talk About, the 28-year-old revealed how her privilege afforded her the opportunity to employ a PI for $8K, and the subsequent 64-page report that disclosed the identities of her trolls. What the report revealed shocked her. 'The craziest thing about it all was the fact that the majority of these accounts were run by mothers,' Clinton told Something To Talk About. 'That was the most shocking part … Barraging my online platforms and spreading these false narratives and just ripping apart every part of [me]. How do they sleep at night?' Clinton, who lives with her husband and three children on Sydney's Northern Beaches, said she couldn't believe how much information about a person is able to be procured, even with an anonymous profile. 'One of the private investigators found out some information through a person who had uploaded a photo of their cat to Pinterest back in 2013 or something, with its cat collar on,' she said. 'They could zoom in [on the collar] and get the phone number, and that phone number unlocked a life of things. You would never think a photo you uploaded of your cat to Pinterest in 2013 could unveil the troll that you are.' One of her 'main culprits' was a woman from WA, whom Clinton was in contact with directly after finding out who she was. The woman offered to delete her profile. 'I said, 'It's too late, the damage is done, babe. What you've posted over the last years has caused ongoing damage to my mental health, my image, my family, my partner's mental health. I've sat silent for long enough. I know who you are. So keep going,'' she told Something To Talk About. 'Within two hours of that communication, she deleted it. Which is just so funny because I'm like, you're such a moron. You're only deleting it now because you're caught out. If you didn't get caught out, you'd just keep harassing someone.' While Clinton says she could receive some satisfaction from suing for defamation, she ultimately wants real, positive change and is thinking of starting a charity. 'I didn't hire a private investigator because I wanted revenge,' she said. 'I'm not asking the person for $250,000 worth of damages. I'm not asking them for any money. I was doing it for change. Because I've done social media as my job for so many years, and nothing has ever changed. I am super keen on starting a charity for families and loved ones to access the resources they need to track down the trolls.' More negative comments came Clinton's way after she underwent a rhinoplasty earlier this year due to a surfing injury. After calling out the commenters on social media, even news outlets like US People picked up the story. Listen to a new interview with Indy Clinton on the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About: 'Never in my wildest dreams did I think I was going to be the one with a botched nose job. 'It's not even just like beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the whole world online thinks that,' she said. 'This is what I'm living with, and I can't change it right now. 'I kinda had to come to terms with that. You can just keep commenting about it, but thanks to your comments, which increases my engagement, you're gonna pay for my next nose job. So thank you, keep going.' Other high-profile content creators have reached out privately to Clinton to thank her, and to see how she found her trolls since they have also suffered from ongoing cyber abuse. The influencer's warning to anonymous trolls is simple: 'Show your face online, or show your face in court. Because cyber-bullying is illegal in Australia. 'Your digital footprint is not anonymous despite the email accounts you make, despite the extensive profiles that you continue to make and the AI photo as your profile picture. 'We can find out where you live, we can find your deceased cat's name, sorry … not sorry though because you actually trolled me. 'We can find out anything and everything, not me personally, but maybe if I take up private investigation in my next life. So don't do it. Don't be a coward.' See the full shoot and cover story with Indy Clinton in today's Stellar, inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland) and Sunday Mail (SA).
News.com.au
31-05-2025
- Entertainment
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‘Nothing glamorous about shooting sex scenes!' Former Home And Away star Sarah Roberts addresses reality of on-screen sex
Former Home And Away actor Sarah Roberts says shooting sex scenes on a TV set is in 'no way glamorous', as she confirms she has found love again after her high-profile divorce from ex-husband, James Stewart. In a new interview with the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About, Roberts discusses the role intimacy co-ordinators play in racy scenes – and how it's nothing like real sex. As she unveils Make It Look Real (a documentary about the topic), Robert recalls one instance where 'there weren't any crazy sex scenes; they were more kissing scenes with an actor that I hadn't worked with before,' Roberts tells Something To Talk About, in a new episode out today. 'It was about, 'How are we going to film this kiss? Do you want to use tongue? Do you not want to use tongue? Where are you going to put your hands? Where should I put my hands?' Listen to Sarah Roberts on the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About, below: 'There's absolutely nothing glamorous about shooting intimate sex scenes or kissing scenes in front of a massive crew,' she adds. 'My first kissing scene on Home And Away was with my now ex-husband [James Stewart, whom she married in 2019]. 'No-one had walked us through what we were doing. It's hard. Having an intimacy co-ordinator just make it all so much cleaner; it takes the stress away.' Meantime, after a turbulent period of her life – including the loss of her beloved brother in 2019 and her divorce from Stewart last year – Roberts has some happy news: she's found love again. 'I love two people now: I've finally found a love for myself, which I know now in retrospect I didn't have for so long,' Roberts told Something To Talk About. 'I am still finding myself, but I have beaten myself up for a long time because I stayed in something that wasn't healthy. But now I have found this love for myself – and also fallen in love with a man. I'm so in love.' The actor and DJ also revealed she used to be a 'yes girl' with 'absolutely no boundaries.' 'Now that I'm 40, I look back on my life so far and it would have been great to have some boundaries and some respect for myself as well,' she said reflectively. 'I would sometimes bend over backwards so far that I would break my back and I got very sick for a moment in time. 'Now I feel very confident walking onto sets. I feel more confident in my day-to-day life as well in relationships. I know what I'll stand and what I won't stand for.' Listen to Sarah Roberts on the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About, below: In terms of her personal life, Roberts and Stewart met in 2017 on the set of Home and Away and married two years later. Stewart is now dating his co-star, Ada Nicodemou. Speaking to Stellar, Roberts said it was difficult to navigate heartbreak and her marriage breakdown in the public eye. 'I imagine dealing with a divorce is hard enough,' she said. 'Dealing with it all in the spotlight – and then everything that came out in the media after – absolutely ripped my heart in a million little pieces,.' Listen to the full interview with Sarah Roberts on the latest episode of the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About, wherever you get your podcasts. See the shoot with her inside the latest issue of Stellar, out in the Sunday papers today.
News.com.au
17-05-2025
- News.com.au
‘Utterly shocking': New twist in William Tyrrell investigation to be revealed in the podcast, Witness: William Tyrrell
Shock new details are about to come to light in the case of missing boy William Tyrrell – a case that has gripped Australia and left the public demanding answers. In an interview with the Stellar podcast Something To Talk About, journalists Dan Box and Nina Young reveal groundbreaking information they've uncovered during their lengthy investigation into Tyrrell's disappearance. 'We've found new witnesses, we found some potential connections between this person of interest and some other unsolved cases on the New South Wales mid North Coast that are not William Tyrrell,' Young told Something To Talk About. Box and Young uncovered some 'utterly shocking' information that has never been reported before. 'What struck me throughout, is the evidence we've uncovered, a lot of it was known to police or could have been known to the police if they went asking questions. And time and time again, it seems that they haven't,' Box said. Listen to an interview with the hosts of Witness: William Tyrrell on the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About: The investigative reporters have been covering the three-year-old boy's disappearance since he vanished from his foster grandmother's backyard wearing a Spider-Man suit on 12 September 2014. In October, they launched the chart-topping podcast Witness: William Tyrrell, revealing which questions are still needing to be answered. Four new episodes of the podcast will be released on Monday. Along the way, they've uncovered dark and deeply confronting material, adding to the heavy personal toll. 'It's a darkness that I never expected to [find],' Box said. 'I really struggle with the transition from work to family, and I'm not very good at it. 'Most of my work is murder at the moment: writing scripts, writing articles … so when you're working from home then flip from that to dinner time, it's rolling chaos. 'It does affect your sleep. Nina's had dreams about William Tyrrell. I've got to the point where before I go to sleep, I tell myself, don't think about him, 'cause I won't go to sleep otherwise.' Listen to an interview with the hosts of Witness: William Tyrrell on the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About: Tyrrell's disappearance shocked the nation, destroyed lives and ended careers, and Box reveals that after 20 years of crime reporting, the case has also broken him. Box said: 'It takes a toll. I don't know if I'll do crime reporting again after this.' For Box and Young, it's not just about bringing William home, it's about finding answers to the hundreds of unsolved homicides across New South Wales. 'There are hundreds and hundreds of families whose loved ones were murdered or went missing and have no answers,' Box said. 'I would love for there to be a proper investigation, firstly, into what went wrong with the William Tyrrell investigation, but also an investigation into what went wrong with all these other unsolved homicides. Because the closer you look at them, you realise that things were done wrong in a lot of them.'
