He’s the no nonsense Irish-born star of My Kitchen Rules.
But Colin Fassnidge has revealed that dealing with online trolls has taken a mental toll on him, with disgusting comments about his family causing him to ‘flip out’.
Speaking on the Mental As Anyone podcast, the celebrity chef said he is willing to withstand online barbs, but targeting his wife Jane Hyland and daughters Lilly, 14, and Meave, 12, was crossing the line.
“I had someone say he’d molest my kids. Someone said they’d rape my wife. Someone said they’d burn down my house. That’s just because they don’t like your TV show,’ Colin said.
‘And I’m like, “really?” People think they can say whatever they want. I don’t mind when they attack me but when they go to the next level, that is when I flip out.’
Colin contacted New South Wales police in 2015 after receiving a disturbing tweet relating to his daughters.
‘I had a guy say he would babysit my kids in a roundabout way and I went to the police and asked what they were going to do about it,’ Colin told news.com.au in 2015 at the time of the incident.
‘The police officer said “he didn’t say he was going to molest them”… and there was nothing he could do.’
Colin Fassnidge has revealed that dealing with online trolls has taken a mental toll on him, with disgusting comments about his family causing him to ‘flip out’
Speaking on the Mental As Anyone podcast, the celebrity chef said he is willing to withstand online barbs, but targeting his wife Jane Hyland and daughters Lilly, 14, and Meave,12, was crossing the line
Unimpressed by their initial response, Colin said it was only after he asked for the name of the officer attending to his case that he got a more substantial response from the police.
He said while negative views expressed about his role on MKR were par for the course, he added that did not extend to his family or MKR contestants.
‘You can slag me off for being the worst cook in the world, my restaurants are s*** and you hate my hair, but leave my kids and the contestants out of it,’ he said.
Speaking to the Australian Women’s Weekly in 2019, Colin revealed he had been left frustrated with the limitations of the law.
‘I took the cop’s name and when he asked “why”, I said: “Basically, when I find who it is, I’m going to kill them myself and my wife will probably help,”‘ Colin told the publication.
‘Then I’ll bury him. And then I’ll tell you where he is,’ he added.
Colin contacted New South Wales police in 2015 after receiving a disturbing tweet relating to his daughters
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