In the film
Saltburn
, Barry Keoghan plays Oliver Quick, a student fascinated by Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), one of his college classmates.
When the latter invites him to spend time with his wealthy family, Oliver takes his fascination to the point of drinking Felix's bathwater.
A scene that has been the subject of many memes since the film was released on Amazon in December.
The only downside is that the joke is obviously not to Jacob Elordi's taste.
The
S
unday Telegraph
thus revealed, on Sunday February 4, that the police of New South Wales, in Australia, had opened an investigation into an alleged attack that the actor would have perpetrated against a radio presenter .
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The altercation allegedly occurred the day before, in front of the Clovelly Hotel, in Sydney, around 3:30 p.m.
Joshua Fox, radio host for KIIS FM, spoke on the “Kyle and Jackie O Show” this Monday, February 5, about this alleged assault.
He claims his superiors sent him to film a video of Jacob Elordi.
He would have waited for the hero of
Euphoria
to leave his hotel, before calling on him to ask him, jokingly, for a sample of his bath water.
Jacob Elordi, furious, would have taken him to task.
Two friends of the actor allegedly prevented the journalist from escaping, and the latter found himself with his back against the wall.
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“Make sure this video doesn’t go anywhere”
The actor would have first asked the host to delete his video.
Joshua Fox would have complied.
But when Jacob Elordi demands that he remove the footage from his deleted files, the reporter refuses.
“I told myself that if I deleted this video, there would be no proof that this meeting happened,” said the journalist.
Jacob Elordi would then have started to be “aggressive”, which would have “intimidated” Joshua Fox.
According to him, the actor “twirled” before grabbing him by the throat and pushing him against the wall.
One of Jacob Elordi's two friends intervened.
Joshua Fox then allegedly headed towards a pub, urging one of the actor's friends to follow him.
The latter allegedly asked him not to broadcast the sequence.
“He said to me, ‘Make sure this video doesn’t go anywhere.
Don’t tell anyone about it,” and made sure I shook his hand, he said.
Once again, I felt intimidated.”
An audio recording of this quarrel was also broadcast on the “Kyle and Jackie O Show”.
“You’re joking,” Jacob Elordi annoys in the extract.
Are you filming?
Can you avoid it, please?”
Joshua Fox reportedly complied, before the incident occurred.
If we are to believe the
Daily Mail Australia,
the New South Wales police have since seized the video clip.
“The man had no injuries,” a spokesperson said of Joshua Fox.
The investigation into this incident continues.”
Reporter Peter Ford, for his part, defended Jacob Elordi on the “Kyle and Jackie O Show,” believing that Joshua Fox had provoked the actor.
The main person concerned, for his part, did not react to the incident.