Like a festering wound that only gets worse the more you pick at it, the televisual scab that is The Shire continues to seep through its way into IRL headlines with today’s news that a ‘cast member’ of the moribund dramality, Daniel ‘Folkesy’ Folkes, has been arrested and charged for his part in an assault that took place in Surry Hills on Thursday night.

Along with two other cast members, including someone called Jye, Folkes was arrested for urinating on a man, abusing him with homophobic insults and resisting arrest. Inarguably the most unforgivable offence committed by Folkes is that while resisting arrest he proceeded to brag to police that he was ‘a star’ on a reality TV show.

fled but were located a short time later by police on the corner of Oxford Street and Riley Street. [They] were then issued a move-on notice. However two of them allegedly continued to argue with police and didn’t complyThe Shire