Abbie Chatfield shares details of feud with the owners of Molly and Peggy
Australian TV personality Abbie Chatfield has spoken out about her bizarre feud with the owners of Molly the magpie and Peggy the staffy.
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Australian TV personality Abbie Chatfield has spoken out about her bizarre feud with the Gold Coast owners of Molly the magpie and Peggy the staffy.
On Sunday, Chatfield shared a video to her 478,000 followers on Instagram replying to a fan’s comment which said “Abbie do you remember when that Peggy and Molly animal account trolled you?”.
“I think about it once a week,” she said.
Molly and Peggy made headlines after their friendship blossomed when Gold Coast couple Juliette Wells and Reece Mortensen took in the magpie as a nestling in 2020.
The best-friend duo now have more than 1.2 million followers on Facebook and 949,000 followers on Instagram.
On July 18, it was announced that Molly and Peggy were going to be transformed into an animated series.
Chatfield said the news had caused “a lot” of her followers to privately message her, asking about a bizarre encounter she had with the Molly and Peggy Instagram account.
“It all began when I posted a video saying ‘@ the table of boomers loudly next to me b**ching about me saying they would be ashamed if their daughter wore that top out,” she said.
Chatfield said the verified Peggy and Molly Instagram account commented on the post and said “yep, look up attention whore and you’ll see a picture of Abbie Chatfield”.
“This is when my vengeance began,” Chatfield said.
Ms Wells and Mr Mortensen later said that their account had been hacked and they weren’t the ones who made the comment.
“Why would anyone hack you to comment one thing on Abbie Chatfield’s post and reply to a comment saying I’m an attention whore,” Chatfield said.
“How daft are people.”
Chatfield said on the Instagram reel that she believed the couple intended to post the comment using their “troll account”.
“Which means they’ve most likely been trolling me for a very long time in my opinion,” she said.
“You f**king losers.
“Not (the animals) themselves – they don’t have thumbs to type things – but their weirdo freak owners.
“But now they are getting an animated series.”
The series announcement has been met with a mixed response as only three months ago the Department of Environment, Science and Innovation launched an investigation into Molly.
Molly was returned to the owners with a series of conditions which included no ongoing commercial gain from the bird or its image.
When asked about the carers in relation to the new series, its creator the CEO of Xentrix Chelsea Bonner said: “Juliette and Reece have simply allowed Xentrix to develop an animated series using the pet names of their animals. No payments have exchanged hands for this. The series isn’t funded yet and is likely in development for at least another year.”
Originally published as Abbie Chatfield shares details of feud with the owners of Molly and Peggy
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