Celebrity The Amazing Race: Aussie reality TV star Marx Marsters caught driving without valid licence

An Australian reality TV star blamed being “a bit disorganised” after returning from shooting a hit show overseas for getting caught driving without a valid licence. See what happened in court.

The cast of the 2025 Celebrity The Amazing Race Australia, includes renowned parkour athlete Marx Marsters, contestants 2025, Picture: CH10

An Australian reality TV star blamed being “a bit disorganised” after returning from shooting the hit show overseas for getting caught driving without a valid licence.

Marx Marsters, renowned exponent and coach of parkour — the sport of running, vaulting, jumping, climbing and rolling over man-made and natural obstacles — was a competitor on the upcoming edition of Channel 10’s Celebrity Amazing Race Australia.

Marsters, who is also a DJ under the stage name “Masta Marx”, and works as a garbage collector at North Sydney Council, competed in the reality show hosted by former NRL play Beau Ryan between March and April this year.

The latest series of the program, which puts teams of two through a series of elimination challenges across several different countries, included filming in Uzbekistan.

Marsters, 34, from Marrickville, was in a team pairing alongside good friend, and professional international parkour athlete, Dom “Tomato” Di Tommaso.

Marx Marsters, 34, of Marrickville, is a renowned parkour athlete. Picture: Instagram

Other celebrities in the program, which is yet to go to air include triple Olympic swimming gold medallist, Bronte Campbell; MasterChef TV presenter Melissa Leong and; actor Stephen Curry.

Manly Local Court was told on Thursday that Marsters pleaded guilty to one count of drive motor vehicle while licence suspended.

Marx Marsters, 34, of Marrickville, outside Manly Local Court on Thursday. Picture: Manly Daily

He was pulled over for a random breath test in Neutral Bay on April 9, just after getting back from the overseas shoot.

Police discovered that his P2 “green” provisional licence had been suspended for three months, from February 14 to May 13, after Marsters had accrued too many demerit points.

Officers asked him to pull up his digital licence on his mobile phone, which showed it had been suspended.

He told the police that he had received a letter advising that his licence was going to be suspended, according to a facts sheet tendered to court.

Marx Marsters, 34, of Marrickville, is a contestant on the next series of Celebrity The Amazing Race on Channel 10. Picture: Instagram

“I would assume that I didn’t read it properly,” Marsters said to the officers.

In court, he told Magistrate Daniel Reiss that he had been “overseas on a TV show for a few months”.

“I was a bit disorganised,” Marsters said.

“I’ve definitely done the wrong thing. Complacency is not an excuse.”

Mr Reiss convicted Marsters before fining him $400 and disqualifying him from driving for three months.