Billy Brownless goes viral with X-rated ‘skinny dipping’ photo
AFL icon Billy Brownless had family and followers doing a double take after sharing an X-rated photo that left little to the imagination.
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Billy Brownless has left his family horrified after sharing a photo of himself skinny dipping on social media.
The Geelong Cats icon is living his best life and looking very loved up with his partner Crystle Fleur, with the couple enjoying a mid-year getaway last week to Western Australia.
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Brownless shared some happy snaps of the holiday around WA, and the footy larrikin saved some of his best, or worst work for a swimming pool at Broome.
“Welcome to Bill’s fitness regime,” he said in a tongue-in-cheek clip uploaded to social media.
“Today I’m going to swim 50 laps of this pool. Righto, here we go.”
Cue the camera panning to show a pool that could not have been more than three metres long, as Brownless pushed off for a “lap”.
He wrote on Instagram: “While in Broome I thought I would get back into the pool and cut some laps!!!”
In a separate post, Brownless shared a photo of him relaxing in the pool with his obvious lack of swimwear leaving little to the imagination — thankfully he was facing away from the camera.
“Some call it ‘Skinny Dipping’ I like to call it ‘Fat Dipping’ #fatstraveldiary,” he wrote.
Safe to say the X-rated post was a bit of a surprise to Brownless’ friends and family.
Former AFL star Dale Thomas joked: “Reverse angle is a Nirvana album cover.”
Bec Judd commented: “Ahahaha. Nice seeing you yesterday. Glad you had some clothes on.”
Brownless’ horrified daughter Ruby commented: “Wow it gets worse”, after responding to his swimming pool post with “Honestly no words”.
His partner Crystal captioned one of her posts: “Relaxing by the pool @cablebeachclub the most perfect place to relax until I looked in the pool @billybrownless.”
Brownless, known as the king of Geelong during his playing days, told the Herald Sun his partner had uploaded the viral skinny dip photo to his Instagram account without his knowledge.
“She thought it was fun. I was just paddling around in the pool, splashing around,” he said.
“She said I’ve got a shot here for you. Darl, we’ll get rid of those shorts and we’ll just have a bit of fun with it. And she thought it would be funny to go nude. She knows how to post off my account. 120,000 views, the punters loved it.”
The 58-year-old said his kids let him know they were less than impressed.
“They’re the ones who aren’t so happy,’’ Brownless said.
“Ruby is the most outspoken, she rang me. She said ‘dad, you’re a dickhead’.”
Earlier this month, Brownless and Fleur celebrated their one-year anniversary, with Fleur posting: “Happy 1st anniversary to this amazing man!”
Brownless and Fleur went public with their relationship in October last year at Geelong’s best and fairest night.
The Cats Hall of Famer was seen arm in arm with the 52-year-old mum of three with the two being sighted at a plethora of events since.
The pair had reportedly been going strong for two months before their first public outing.
The happy couple were spotted after the AFL Grand Final speaking with his ex-wife Nicky Brownless and former best mate and Melbourne great Garry Lyon.
Brownless and Nicky were together for 18 years before splitting in 2014. In 2016 Lyon’s friendship with Brownless fell apart after he went public with Nicky.
A month after their relationship made headlines, Billy revealed how the relationship had impacted his family, saying ‘a good mate wouldn’t do that’.
“I couldn’t believe it. I found out three or four months ago. I asked Garry and Nicky earlier on what is going on and they said they were just good friends,” he said on the Footy Show at the time.
“That’s what hurts the most.”
The former best mates have since reunited with the duo spending several Christmases together as an extended family.
Lyon surprised Nicky in December, 2023 when he proposed and she said yes.
Nicky clearly wasn’t expecting the move, announcing the news of the engagement on her Instagram account, posting a black and white photo of the pair embracing with the caption “the best surprise”.
The duo, who have been together for eight years, took off to New York shortly after the proposal.
Their relationship has blossomed despite facing a series of public scandals right from the beginning.
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