Video of drunk Andrew O'Keefe Channel 7 paid to censor
THIS is the amazing video Channel Seven didn't want the public to see: Andrew O'Keefe drunk, incoherent and stumbling.
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THESE are the images Channel Seven didn't want the public to see: star Andrew O'Keefe drunk, incoherent, stumbling and collapsing into a gutter after a night of boozing.
Seven paid a bouncer $25,000 for some footage of the Deal Or No Deal host, who was filmed by teenagers outside the popular Melbourne nightclub Revolver early one morning in November.
The teenagers passed that footage on to the bouncer.
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Aware of the potential damage to O'Keefe at a time when the Federal Government and community concerns are focused on curbing a rising trend of binge drinking, Seven attempted to keep the embarrassing footage out of the public arena.
But the footage obtained by the bouncer, and bought by Seven, was only a one-minute snippet. The teenagers had more mobile footage which Seven did not know about and did not buy.
That footage has been obtained by The Sunday Telegraph.
The four-minute series of videos show O'Keefe struggling to walk, crawling, trying to smoke a cigarette and lying in a gutter with a blonde woman who attempts to help him. Attempting to control the damaging publicity, O'Keefe and Seven last week released a statement defending his role as a "family man" who "never set out to deliberately offend anyone" during his binge session.
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O'Keefe and his wife, Eleanor, have two sons, Barnaby and Rory.
He initially trained as a lawyer to follow the career of his father, former Supreme Court judge Barry O'Keefe. His uncle was renowned hell-raiser and Australian rock legend Johnny O'Keefe.
O'Keefe also co-hosts the Weekend Sunrise program.
The host and his family left for a tour of the US last week after filming of Deal Or No Deal wrapped up in Melbourne.
The identity of the blonde woman is unknown, but there is no evidence of impropriety towards her from O'Keefe.
At one stage, when he collapses on her, the woman yells: "Kill me . . . kill me, Andrew O'Keefe."
Initially, O'Keefe struggles to coherently describe a guest on his show.
"We had this guy on my show the other day who was a a grower of kiwi fruit, know what I'm saying?
"And he goes, 'As we say in the kiwi fruit growing business, you got to take it where you can get it.' Is everyone in the kiwi fruit business gay?
"And he goes, 'No, what do you mean? What you're saying is you got to take it where you get it and that seems to me to be a . . . "
To this, an unidentified male says: "Careful, Andrew."
"F*** off noisy people, you stripey shirts," he tells someone in Chapel St who asks if he is OK.
O'Keefe can then be seen lying in the footpath with a cigarette in his mouth.
Trying to get up, he next calls out: "Hey, hey, hey, hey, get that kid back here, quick. Get that kid back here."
Just after this, a mystery girl and a man try to get O'Keefe inside Revolver.
"You're coming back in with us, Mr O'Keefe," the mystery man says.
"No I'm not, I'm really f*****."
The video finishes soon afterwards by showing O'Keefe - no longer in the company of the young woman - opening the door of what appears to be a stranger's ute and asking for a lift.
The driver allows him to enter and they drive away.