A well-known lifeguard and star of Australian reality show Bondi Rescue has pleaded not guilty to domestic violence charges in Sydney.
Andrew Reid, 45, is known as "Reidy" on the popular show, which depicts the daily work of lifeguards on Bondi Beach in Sydney, one of Australia's best-known destinations.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, he pleaded not guilty to two counts of common assault (DV), which allegedly took place between November 2022 and January of this year on the city's North Shore.
Reid also faces a third charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm (DV) dating back to March, while a fourth domestic violence charge was dismissed.
Reid's lawyer Margaret Cunneen said the allegations would be "vigorously defended".
"There are three very disparate allegations with a long time in between all, of which, on the defence case, could be accounted for by an accident," she told the Sydney Morning Herald.
Reid provided first aid to some of those wounded in the mass stabbing at Bondi Junction in April, which saw six people lose their lives.
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