UPDATE: This article has been amended after publication to emphasise that Joe Exotic has not tested positive for coronavirus, or shown symptoms, but is in quarantine due to fellow imates doing so.

Netflix's Tiger King star Joe Exotic is in quarantine in a prison medical centre after inmates at his previous jail tested positive for COVID-19.

The documentary star and big cat owner, 57, is currently serving a 22-year sentence for several crimes.

Joe, who owned the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, was convicted of hiring someone to kill his rival, Carole Baskin, and animal abuse.

His fourth husband Dillon Passage, 24, has spoken of his concern that Joe would contract the virus, as it was present in his last prison.

Dillon said Joe had been in isolation at Oklahoma's Grady County Jail over coronavirus concerns.

He has since been transferred to the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, prison records show.

A post on Joe's Facebook page said: "Joe DOES NOT have the COVID-19 virus, he’s in a 14-day quarantine because he was transferred from another facility."

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Dillon, a bartender, did not say that Joe had caught the virus or shown symptoms himself.

Speaking to Andy Cohen on his SiriusXM Radio Andy show on Wednesday, Dillon said: "We speak like three to five times every day, but since he's been moved to this new facility, they are putting him on a COVID-19 isolation because of the previous jail he was at, there were cases.

"I've yet to speak to him since he moved."

Dillon then confirmed that Joe "is in his own COVID-19 quarantine".

When asked if he is in individual quarantine, Dillon said: "From what I know, yes."

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Joe was imprisoned in 2019 after he was found guilty of paying a hitman $3,000 to kill his nemesis, Carole Baskin, who is an animal rights activist.

Joe - real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage - recently rose to fame in the UK when his documentary was released on Netflix.

He has inspired an outpouring of memes due to his quirky dress sense and baffling lifestyle surrounded by tigers, guns and several husbands at a time.

Dillon continues to declare his loyalty to Joe, despite them probably being apart for almost two decades.

He told Adam Cohen: "I do love Joe. He's been with my through my darkest times, and I'm not going to just dip out and abandon him when he needs me most."