Last updated: December 26, 2014



Beauty and the Geek stars hit the headlines

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Geek Adam Marshall, with beauties Emma, and left, with Jacelle. Picture: Supplied Source:

IT'S one of the most popular reality TV franchises on television, but in its four short seasons, Beauty and The Geek has attracted its fair share of scandals.

Series-three geek Adam Marshall is the latest contestant to hit the headlines, after becoming embroiled in a 16-month court battle to win back his job with the Bureau of Meteorology.

Marshall was sacked in July last year after he appeared on the reality show during sick leave from work for anxiety and stress.

Federal Magistrate Dominica Whelan ordered the BOM to re-hire him in his role as a remote area weather observer and backpay his salary. Read more here.

But Marshall is not the only geek - or beauty - to cause a stir. Here are just some of the scandals that have hit the headlines:

Geek revealed as an actor

VIEWERS were duped in last year's series when geek contestant Bendeguz Daniel Devenyi-Botos outed himself as being an actor.

Despite being presented as a bookish "historian" on the Channel 7 dating contest, Devenyi-Botos, who has a string of theater and short-film credits to his name, confessed that he signed up to the program to boost his acting career.

He claimed that producers were well-aware he was an actor and had approached him to be on the program after seeing him in a play.


Bendeguz was not actually a true geek, but an actor. Picture: Supplied Source:

Beauty arrested after drunken night in Surfers

2011's RUNNER-up beauty Tamika Chesser was arrested after a drunken night out on the Gold Coast with a girlfriend.

Chesser claimed she was violently and brutally handled by police during the ordeal, which led her to slap the officer.

The Ralph magazine swimwear model spent the night in Southport watchhouse and was charged with assaulting police, resisting arrest and public drunkenness.


Tamika Chesser admitted to slapping a police officer and was arrested on the Gold Coast after her stint on the show. Picture: Supplied Source:

Tattoo gives relationship a bum steer

"TATTOO-gate" erupted in series three of Beauty and the Geek when Lachlan Cosgrove, who was in the midst of a budding relationship with beauty Jordan Finlayson, tattooed his teammate Sarah's name on his backside.

Upon seeing her boyfriend with another girl's name tattooed on his bum, Jordan flipped out.

"I cried when he got the tattoo, because I was so shocked," Jordan said. "When I first met him he came across as being so conservative, and he was always talking about how his parents were quite strict, so for him to get a tattoo was way out of his comfort zone."

Cosgrove could only hold his head in his hands and say "I don't have the skills to deal with this". He later added a Beauty and the Geek logo to the tattoo.


Lachlan tattooed the name of his teammate Sarah on his bottom, despite being in a relationship with Jordan. Picture: Supplied Source:

Geek is actually a dad

CHANNEL Seven were forced to admit that one of their suspiciously good-looking geek's, Corin Storkey, had a five-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.

The revelation put Storkey's geek credibility in doubt and was at odds with his claims that he struggled to meet women.

Producers and Channel Seven came under fire from fans who accused him of being a "fake".


Channel Seven was forced to issue a statement admitting that Corin Storkey had been in a serious previous relationships and even had fathered a child. Picture: Supplied Source:

Nightclub promoter turns "geek"?

A SECOND geek was accused of not being genuine enough when Daniel Iachini was outed by friends as a young lothario who was confident with women and had had several girlfriends in the past, including a long-term relationship of 18 months.

Far from being an awkward geek, the 23-year-old was reportedly a regular on Adelaide’s nightclub scene, where he helped friends with promoting club events.

“Why is Daniel on that show? Since when did preppy G-Star clothes and a long beard make someone a geek?” a friend who didn't want to be named said.


Daniel Iachini was outed by friends as being too cool to be a geek. Picture: Tait Schmaal Source:

Break-up brings out beauty and the beast

JORDAN Finlayson and Lachlan Cosgrove again found themselves hitting headlines during a nasty break-up that made it's way onto Facebook.

After 10 months together, the pair decided to go their separate ways, but not before Lachlan posted her mobile phone number online, and spitefully labelled Finlayson "dishonest, disgusting, immoral and horrible".

Cosgrove posted several nasty rants on the social networking site which left Finlayson to warn future potential beauties that "geeks aren't always as they seem to be; they can have a mean streak to them".

The pair has earlier admitted that they had sex in the Beauty and The Geek house, and that Cosgrove was a virgin at the time.


Lachlan and Jordan's happy romance turned a sour when Lachlan left nasty messages on Facebook about his former flame. Picture: Supplied Source: