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Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Daily Mail
Fresh legal blow for axed Ready Steady Cook host - after he was hit by bombshell child sex charges
Police have applied for a restraining order against fallen former Ready Steady Cook host Peter Everett after he was charged with child sex offences. The 66-year-old was charged with sexually touching a 16-year-old boy without consent and appeared in Sydney 's Parramatta Local Court over the weekend. Now police are seeking an Apprehended Violence Order against Everett on behalf of a third party identified only as 'MD'. The matter will be heard at Wyong Local Court on the NSW Central Coast on Thursday. Mandatory interim conditions, including bans on assaulting, threatening, stalking, harassing or intimidating the alleged victim, remain in place. The Australian TV host was arrested at a Central Coast home in Toukley on Saturday. Officers from the Tuggerah Lakes Police District began investigating the alleged incident the day before Everett's arrest. 'Following extensive inquiries, police arrested a 66-year-old man at a home at Toukley,' a statement from NSW Police read. The Australian TV host was arrested at a home in Toukley on the NSW Central Coast on Saturday 'The man was taken to Wyong Police Station where he was charged with sexually touching another person without consent.' Everett spent Saturday night in a cell before his bail hearing at Parramatta Local Court on Sunday. He was granted bail with strict conditions that include reporting twice a week to Waverley Police Station in Sydney's eastern suburbs. He may only return to his home to collect his belongings with a police escort, and is forbidden from contacting his alleged victim or any witnesses. He pleaded not guilty to the charge and denied any wrongdoing when approached by waiting media outside. Everett was best known for hosting the Channel 10 daytime cooking show Ready Steady Cook for five years from 2006. He was unceremoniously sacked from the show over the phone in 2011. In 2022, Everett revealed he was selling off his possessions just 'to survive' after a tough few years during the Covid-19 pandemic. Everett, who regularly appears at food festivals across the country, told 4BC Afternoons host Rob McKnight he'd 'lost his livelihood' because of the lockdowns. 'There's been a lot of sales on my behalf. I'm selling anything - not down to the garage sale yet - but I've been selling off a lot of things,' Everett said. 'It really hasn't been an easy time. It hasn't. The entertainment industry, a lot of my friends, far less fortunate than I, have had it really, really bad.' After he was dumped from the show in 2011, he said he was 'disappointed' to have been fired over the phone just before heading overseas on holiday. Rory Callaghan, the CEO of Southern Star Productions (now Endemol Australia), which produced the series, later defended the decision to sack Everett. Callaghan told TV Tonight: 'It was me who called him and said, "Don't bother coming back from Bali." It was a hard production with him so it was time to move on.' Speaking to in 2019, Everett added: '[Callaghan] was saying that I think I'm greater than the show. I think it meant I thought I was so indispensable and that they couldn't do the show without me.' In 2023, Everett unleashed on Channel 10 producers for failing to invite him back for the 2024 reboot. Everett told New Idea magazine that he was devastated and could barely sleep after learning that chef Miguel Maestre was hosting the program. 'I was like a three-year-old for a couple of days, who constantly asks, "Why, why, why?", he said. 'They didn't approach me for some reason. Who knows why? It's a shame.'
ABC News
17-07-2025
- ABC News
Man in hospital under guard after armed confrontation with police on Central Coast
A 42-year-old man has been arrested following an alleged armed confrontation with police and a pursuit on the New South Wales Central Coast. Police were called to an address in San Remo at about 5am when they found a man standing in the middle of the road armed with a knife. Officers deployed a taser but the man got into his car and allegedly drove at police, ramming a patrol vehicle. Tuggerah Lakes Police District Superintendent Chad Gillies said one officer fired their gun but the man drove away. "He managed to avoid that," Superintendent Gillies said. "Then at about 7.30 this morning police managed to identify and locate him at Gorokan where he was arrested, again by the use of a taser." The man was taken to John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle for assessment under police guard, Superintendent Gillies said. A woman injured during an alleged domestic assault, which took place before the stand-off, has been taken to hospital. "People, be assured that there is no threat to the community," Superintendent Gillies said.
