Pictures and videos of a basketball star’s feet have been shared on porn websites and sold online to foot fetish ‘slaves’ – but the player’s girlfriend says the images were stolen.
A two-minute video of Melbourne United and New Zealand Tall Blacks centre Alex Pledger – who is 2.15m (7’1”) tall – wiggling his size 17 feet in front of a camera was shared to a porn website last week.
The video titled ‘Big and Sexy Male Soles’ was posted under the ‘gay feet’ category, and with the tags ‘malefeet’, ‘giantfeet’ and ‘masterfeet’.
A Twitter account called ‘Big Foot Hooper’ also shared pictures of Pledger’s feet, showing the player pulling the finger while the captions demanded money for videos.
A two-minute-long video of Melbourne United and New Zealand Tall Blacks centre Alex Pledger (pictured with his girlfriend Bailee Wilson-Yates) was shared to a porn website
A Twitter account called ‘Big Foot Hooper’ also shared pictures of Pledger’s feet, showing the player pulling the finger while the captions demanded money for videos
‘Bow down to these [size] 17s… I talk the whole video telling you how small and insignificant you are and how you slaves have to beg for them,’ a picture of Pledger’s feet was captioned.
‘Accepting new slaves… wanna bow down to these size 17 alpha feet?’ another caption read.
The account also shared screenshots of $50 transactions, claiming they were for selling personalised videos.
‘Which one of you worthless slaves is gonna bow down to these feet and pay up?’ one of the tweets read.
Pledger’s girlfriend Bailee Wilson-Yates said he was not selling photos or videos of his feet, and that they were stolen.
‘The only way they could have got a video like this… is this would be the way he would sit during an audio session on any of his coaching meetings he has to do via phone, but would someone have to access his camera?’ she told Daily Mail Australia.
Pledger’s girlfriend Bailee Wilson-Yates said he was not selling photos or videos of his feet, and that they were stolen
The ‘Big Foot Hooper’ Twitter account shared pictures of large feet and asked for money
Ms Wilson-Yates said she had reported the Twitter account and the couple were ‘mortified’.
‘Alex lost a phone eight months ago but we didn’t really think anything of it… so if there were old podiatry pics in the old photos on the iCloud reel then I’m proper freaked the f**k out if they got access to that.
‘At first it was funny now it’s a bit invasive… I don’t think he will be relaxing on an audio meeting again.
‘He’s a professional basketball player and a human being – not some guy to make a quick buck off and again he hasn’t made any money out of this circus.
‘Which one of you worthless slaves is gonna bow down to these feet and pay up?’ one of the tweets read
‘This is pretty crap and the reason why we block accounts all the time… The devil works hard but internet trolls work harder.’
Ms Wilson-Yates said she had reported the theft to the police, and warned people to be careful with their private photos and videos.
‘He’s pretty gutted to be honest… it’s really scary the stuff that they could access that we had no idea was even there,’ she said.
The ‘Big Foot Hooper’ Twitter account was deleted on Monday.
In September, Pledger said he was horrified to find pictures of his feet were taken from his Instagram account and shared to foot fetish pages.
The account also shared screenshots of $50 transactions, claiming they were for selling personalised videos
Pledger shared a video of himself receiving treatment to his right foot on social media.
The same video was then shared to the ‘Admirer Worldwide’ Instagram account, which regularly posts pictures of men’s feet.
‘I’ve got to stop posting my feet on the gram… this about the 10th time I’ve been featured in some weird foot fetish s**t,’ Pledger said.
At the time, he suggested he needed to start charging for the pictures of his feet.
The video of Pledger’s foot shared to the fetish account was accompanied by the hashtags ‘#sexyfeet’, ‘#malefootfetish’ and ‘#hotfeet’.
It is not suggested that Pledger or Ms Wilson-Yates were in any way involved with publication of the videos on the porn site and Daily Mail Australia accepts that any publication was made without their consent.
Pledger’s girlfriend Ms Wilson-Yates advised people to be careful with their private photos and videos