Travers ‘The Candyman’ Beynon makes a comeback after going dark on social media

After going dark on social media for months, flamboyant Gold Coast businessman Travers ‘The Candyman’ Beynon has re-emerged.

HE’S back, baby!

After shelving his infamous Christmas parties and going dark on social media for months, colourful Gold Coast businessman Travers ‘The Candyman’ Beynon has made an emphatic comeback.

Hot on the heels of a couriermail.com.au story suggesting the Free Choice tobacco tycoon was MIA, Beynon has given his hundreds of thousands of followers proof of life.

Taking to Instagram for the first time in four months, the Candyman made a total of five posts to his @candyshopmansion and @traversbeynonofficial accounts at the weekend.

They included videos of Beynon and son Valentino working out at the gym and the family including wife Taesha frolicking on the beach at Caloundra.

Travers ‘The Candyman’ Beynon posted this picture with wife Taesha at Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast. Picture: Instagram

Several followers noted his lengthy Insta absence.

“Love to see you both back after a long time,” one follower posted beneath a pic of Beynon and his wife smooching on the sand.

Another wrote: “You making comeback on the gram (Instagram) mate … been absent for a bit.”

Prior to the weekend, his last Instagram posts had been way back in August when photos of a buff and bronzed Beynon posing shirtless in the grounds of his opulent “Candy Shop Mansion” appeared on both his accounts.

His social media absence was curious for a man who had previously spruiked himself as Australia’s answer to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.

Regular Instagram posts showed him lapping up the luxury of his riverfront mansion at Helensvale, surrounded by his wife and a bevy of bikini-clad live-in “girlfriends”.

Travers ‘The Candyman’ Beynon wished his wife Taesha a happy birthday in the posts. Picture: Instagram

His annual Christmas soirees were the stuff of Glitter Strip social scene legend, with hundreds of scantily-clad guests cavorting throughout the lavish seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom, 21-car garage Candy Shop Mansion and its grounds which include a 250,000-litre infinity pool complete with swim-up bar, grotto and 27-tonne statue.

The wild parties attracted police attention and in 2018, Mr Beynon was slapped

with a $13,000 fine from Gold Coast City Council after complaints about a 3m statue

of a topless Virgin Mary.

Mr Beynon later accused the council of waging “an ongoing campaign of harassment” and said officers had tried to infiltrate the party “like CIA operatives”

In 2019, he launched District Court action against four neighbours he accused of trying to stop him from throwing his decadent parties. The claim was settled out of court.

But he hasn’t held a party since, not even this year in the first restriction-free Christmas after the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Courier-Mail reached out to Beynon through his Free Choice Australia headquarters last week to see if everything was sweet with the Candyman, but there was no response.

Originally published as Travers ‘The Candyman’ Beynon makes a comeback after going dark on social media