Fallen Channel Seven star Andrew O’Keefe was revived by paramedics after a suspected drug overdose at a party in Sydney’s eastern suburbs over the weekend.
O’Keefe, 52, was partying at a home in Vaucluse at 3.30am on Saturday when emergency services were called.
Paramedics successfully revived the former Deal or No Deal host, before he was taken to nearby St Vincent’s Hospital for treatment, the Daily Telegraph reports.
He has since been released from hospital.
In a statement, NSW Police said: ‘Officers attached to Eastern Suburbs Police Area Command were called to a home unit on Old South Head Road at Vaucluse about 3.40am, responding to concerns for the welfare of a 52-year-old man.
‘NSW Ambulance paramedics rendered assistance to the man before taking him to St Vincent’s Hospital where he was reported to be in a stable condition.
‘Inquiries into the incident are continuing.’
Andrew O’Keefe was revived by paramedics after a drug overdose at a party in Sydney’s eastern suburbs over the weekend
O’Keefe was last seen in public on Wednesday when he was spotted picking up Elisha Dalah, a 35-year-old scion of a high society family who was once caught stealing from a Westfield shopping centre in 2022.
The sighting of O’Keefe – who had a cigarette hanging from his mouth – came just days after a court upheld his convictions for domestic violence assault on Monday.
District Court Judge John Pickering rejected his lawyers’ arguments that the woman had inflicted scratch marks on her own arm and later blamed O’Keefe.
However, the judge overturned other charges for drug possession after finding it could not be proven items found in a lock box in O’Keefe’s apartment belonged to him.
The troubled former TV star was convicted in January of three counts of domestic violence-related assault, twice contravening an AVO against him, and two charges for possessing a prohibited drug.
He was ordered to serve 18 months on a community corrections order, which involves supervision and reporting requirements, and fined $800 for the drug offences.
Paramedics responded to the incident at a home in Vaucluse at approximately 3.30am on Saturday
During an assault in September 2021, O’Keefe was found to have pushed the woman into a doorway, punched her with the heel of the hand and forced her to the ground, before kicking her in the thigh and using his nails to scratch her chest.
But O’Keefe’s barrister Phillip Boulten SC said the woman’s claim she scratched her hand on a hinge after being pushed through the doorway was not supported by physical evidence.
Boulten said if the woman was found not to have been truthful about the scratch marks on her arm, the entirety of her evidence should not be accepted.
Judge Pickering told the court he did not see any reason for the woman to lie about the assault, and noted at the time she had indicated she did not want to make a complaint to police.
‘It was clear in her communication with the police that she did not actually want the police to get involved in this,’ he said.
‘I do not see what benefit there was to the complainant. I am satisfied the complainant was a truthful witness about this incident.’
As the judgement was read in court, O’Keefe shook his head in frustrated disagreement and passed written notes to his lawyer.
O’Keefe has admitted the argument occurred, but maintains he accidentally fell into the woman due to their proximity rather than pushing her.
The woman alleged that after she fell, O’Keefe had said to her: ‘Nice acting, I barely touched you.’
Judge Pickering found it was open to the court in initially convicting O’Keefe to use an earlier incident in January 2021, in which O’Keefe admitted spitting in the same woman’s eye, to help establish who was telling the truth.
‘The majority of males in our community do not act in this fashion,’ he said.
O’Keefe previously hosted Weekend Sunrise and a number of game shows including The Chase until his contract with the Seven Network expired at the end of 2020.
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