Madeleine West and Shannon Bennett’s daughter Phoenix rang in her 18th birthday on Monday and celebrated with a pint of Guinness.
The MasterChef Australia guest judge, 48, took to his Instagram to show Phoenix enjoying her first taste of the Irish stout.
Under the picture Shannon wrote: ‘My daughter is 18 today! All she wanted was a beer at the Eltham pub best pub in the Byron area!’
Shannon’s fans were enthusiastic about her beverage choice, with one writing ‘great taste in beer.’
Other followers commented ‘a Guinness, strong start to life’ and ‘Oof that Guinness is a meal on its own.’
Madeleine West and Shannon Bennett ‘s daughter Phoenix rang in her 18th birthday on Monday and celebrated with a pint of Guinness
The MasterChef Australia guest judge, 48, took to his Instagram to show Phoenix enjoying her first taste of the Irish stout
Madeleine and Shannon split after 13 years and six children together in 2018, with West later stating the separation process ‘turned love toxic’.
Two years after their breakup, she left Melbourne and moved to the Byron Bay area to be near their six children, buying her own $4.6million property overlooking Tallow Beach.
Madeleine spent this year embroiled in court battles with Benny Bennett, Shannon’s elderly father, who took out an AVO against her after an alleged clash at the chef’s Byron mansion in 2022.
Madeleine and Shannon split after 13 years and six children together in 2018, with West later stating the separation process ‘turned love toxic’
A magistrate enforced the AVO describing Madeleine as an ‘evasive’ and unreliable witness, and her alleged treatment of her ex father-in-law, 75, as ‘verging on being aggressive’.
But the decision was thrown out when Madeleine appealed to the NSW District Court and won in a ruling by Judge Jonathan Priestley who said ‘the evidence of facts supporting them is light on, and not supported by’ the footage from five different CCTV cameras around Shannon Bennett’s home.
In January this year, West revealed she was sexually abused from the age of five to 10. Her abuser has never been named.
Two years after their breakup, she left Melbourne and moved to the Byron Bay area to be near their six children, buying her own $4.6million property overlooking Tallow Beach
‘Part of the reason I went into acting was to wear someone else’s skin, to hide what was actually happening in my life,’ she said.
In her Instagram posts in September, she wrote a cryptic clue about the difficult path of reporting her abuser to the police.
She described ‘carers too confronted to hear a child’s pain, too scared of the consequences of taking action’.
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