OnlyFans model hurls milkshake at Reform UK leader Nigel Farage after he enters race for PM
The woman who threw a McDonald’s milkshake at controversial UK politician Nigel Farage has explained her motivation. Watch video.
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A woman has been charged with assault by beating and criminal damage after allegedly throwing a McDonald’s milkshake at Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.
Essex Police said Victoria Thomas-Bowen, 25, who is an OnlyFans model, will appear at Colchester Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday July 2.
Police said the charges relate to an incident in which a drink was thrown at a man in the area of Marine Parade East, Clacton, at around 2.10pm on Tuesday, local time.
Following the incident, Thomas-Bowen shared a full-length photo of herself on her Instagram stories linking to her OnlyFans account with the Kelis 2003 hit Milkshake playing.
She then added a ‘PSA’ story saying she did not throw the banana milkshake to promote her OnlyFans channel - it was meant as a political statement.
She clarified that she did not give her name or profession when she spoke to journalists after the incident.
“He doesn’t stand for me, he doesn’t represent anything I believe in, or any of the people around here,” she was heard telling media, according to The Mirror.
I think her and I follow one another. However these actions merit jail.
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On Twitter/X, Tristan Tate, brother of disgraced men’s rights activist Andrew Tate, called for Thomas-Bowen to be imprisoned and for OnlyFans to ban her.
“These actions merit jail. If genders were reversed? It would be jail. This could have very easily been a blinding agent.”
Thomas-Bowen replied with two crying-laughing emojis: “I would never follow you, don’t flatter yourself.”
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It comes as Essex Police confirmed a 25-year-old woman from Clacton was arrested outside a Wetherspoons pub in the seaside resort on suspicion of assault.
Mr Farage laughed off the incident, which came after he was convinced by former Neighbours star Holly Valance to stand as a candidate in the upcoming British general election.
The Reform UK leader ended up with a cup full of pale yellow milkshake over his head as he left the Moon and Starfish pub, where he launched his campaign.
Video showed Ms Thomas-Bowen waiting for the ex-UKIP leader to walk past before hurling her McDonald’s milkshake, The Sun reported.
Ms Thomas-Bowen, who runs an account on OnlyFans and posts raunchy snaps on Instagram, previously shared a picture on Facebook with the caption: “Vote Labour for the many not the few”.
Farage joked off the episode by buying a round of milkshakes and posting a video saying, “My milkshakes bring all people to the rally.”
He described the incident as “quite scary” and said: “No one goes out and does the old-style street campaigning the way that I do, and this is the risk that goes with it.”
Essex Police said a 25-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of assault. While making the arrest, a man was arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker. Both remain in custody for questioning.
It came as British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak clashed with Opposition Leader Sir Keir Starmer over taxes in their first televised debate.
In a tense showdown, Mr Sunak ripped into Sir Keir’s tax plans, claiming Labour would raise taxes and “raid” people’s pension funds.
Mr Sunak said the man hoping to replace him is coming for “your work, your car, your pension – you name it, Labour will tax it. It’s in their DNA.”
Sir Keir slammed the Conservative Party, saying they had hiked taxes to the highest level in 70 years.
In the first of their two TV debates, the pair also clashed on immigration as well as the state of Britain’s National Health Service.
FARAGE SAYS VALANCE INFLUENCED HIM TO RUN
Mr Farage shocked British Conservatives on Monday as he announced he was taking over from former leader Richard Tice as the head of the Reform UK party, and that he would be standing for election for a ninth time.
He said he doesn’t believe the Conservative Party has what it takes to be effective in opposition and was propelled to return to frontline politics after Valance had been nagging the Brexit advocate to run for leadership.
Australian actor Valance, who is married to billionaire property developer Nick Candy, has vowed to support his campaign saying she had been “whispering in (Farage’s) ear for a long time, saying, ‘Come on, pull your finger out, give the people what they want,’” she said after attending Mr Farage’s conference on Monday.
She later told GB News “Hopefully we will be stronger and we will see what we can do at this next election, I’m a paid up member,” she said, adding she would “probably” campaign for the Reform UK party if Farage asked but drew the line at door knocking.
“Does anyone want to see me knocking on their doors anymore … maybe 20 years ago”, she said.
Mr Farage introduced Valance and her husband Nick Candy to former US president Donald Trump two years ago at a dinner hosted at his home in Mar-A-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida.
Mr Candy, a staunch Conservative Party donor, is preparing to host an expensive Trump election fundraiser in London on Friday where tickets will cost an eye-watering US$100,000 per couple to attend.
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“It’s a Holly party, so you can guarantee it’s going to be enormous fun,” Mr Farage told The Sunday Times of the gathering.
Valance courted controversy in March when she trumpeted Trump as “fabulous” and criticised Australia as “woke”.
Her younger sister Olympia, also a former Neighbours actress, says she does not share her sister’s extreme right wing political views and says Holly rarely returns home to Australia
“It was like, ‘Oh my God,’ when she said all that stuff. I’m like, ‘Oh God! Everyone’s going to think that that’s what I think!’ And I don’t,” she said on HIT WA’s Allan & Carly radio show
“She has the right to say the things that she wants to say … but yes, that’s not my opinion on anything.”
On Tuesday Farage urged local constituents to “send him to Parliament”.
“I will be unafraid, despite what everybody says, despite what names they call me, they are so stupid it only encourages me really, in fact, send me to Parliament to be a bloody nuisance.”
Mr Farage told voters in the constituency of Clacton that the Conservative Party deserved to pay a “big price” for its poor management of Britain’s immigration and insisted he had “no confidence” that Labour would reduce net migration levels.
A poll by YouGov reveals Labour, led by Keir Starmer, is poised to win the general election with an even bigger majority than Tony Blair in 1997.
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