Millie Fuller: ‘Love Island Australia’ contestant appeals conviction for biting pub security guard

A former reality TV contestant has appealed her conviction for biting a security guard at a popular Sydney pub.

Former reailty TV star Millie Fuller, of Allambie Heights, leaves Manly Local Court in August, 2023, after being charged with assault and failing to leave a pub. Her conviction on those charges has been set aside by the District Court. Picture: Jeremy Piper

A former Australian reality TV contestant has had a conviction for biting, slapping and kicking a pub security guard during a late night “alcohol fuelled” incident, overturned.

Millie Fuller, 29, who made it to the final on Love Island Australia, latched onto the guard’s shoulder with her teeth while he tried to remove her from Manly’s Hotel Steyne.

Fuller, from Allambie Heights, was convicted, in Manly Local Court in August last year, of common assault and one count of excluded person fail to leave premises when required.

She appealed the convictions in the Sydney District Court.

Judge Mark Williams last week found Fuller guilty, without proceeding to conviction.

Judge Williams ordered that the convictions and sentences — a 12-month community correction order and a $150 fine — be set aside.

Millie Fuller.who was a contestant on “Love Island Australia”, leaves Manly Local Court in August 2023. Picture: Jeremy Piper

He then sentenced her to an 18-month Conditional Release Order, which included complying with a mental health treatment plan supervised by a psychologist.

Fuller had unsuccessfully applied in Manly Local Court to have the charges dropped on mental health grounds. The court was told that she was being treated for several conditions including hyperactivity disorder and a stress disorder.

Manly court was told last year that Fuller – who is now described as a social media influencer with 265,000 followers on Instagram and 29,000 on Tik Tok – was being ejected from the Steyne after staff deemed she’d had too much to drink.

The court heard that on the night she assaulted the guard, she had downed six alcoholic drinks, but was also on prescription medication.

Manly Magistrate Robert Williams said while he noted that it was clear Fuller’s behaviour was affected by her health issues, it was also clear it was affected by alcohol.

He said alcohol appeared to be an “influencing factor”.

In an agreed set of facts tendered to Manly court, police stated that Fuller was dancing with a friend in a common walkway before she was asked to move onto the dance floor.

Later she was approached by security guards who told her she needed to leave the hotel because she had been refused service and was showing signs of intoxication.

Millie Fuller, a popular social influencer, has 265,000 followers on Instagram and 29,000 on Tik Tok. Picture: www.instagram.com/millie1993/

After she refused to leave, the security guard who was he victim of the assault, was called to help usher her from the premises.

That guard grabbed her arm and began to push her toward an exit. Police stated that Fuller fell to the floor and guards picked her up before resisted by “flailing both of her arms around”.

As she was pushed towards the exit, she slapped the guards’ face.

The guard, with the help of two others, continued pushing her towards the exit “when she bit him on his left shoulder”, the facts sheet stated. He suffered a small cut.

After she was carried outside onto the Corso, she kicked the guard in the leg and pushed his face before she was restrained in a headlock by a female guard.