Former Channel 7 star Andrew O’Keefe has been stripped of his Order of Australia after a flood of complaints had been made that he nonetheless had the honour following his assault and drug convictions.
The Council of the Order of Australia, the physique answerable for recommending and terminating appointments, made the choice in a discover dated June 4.
In February, O’Keefe escaped with a nice and licence suspension after pleading responsible to a drug-driving cost.
The troubled former star appeared at Waverley Native Court docket on Friday, when he pleaded responsible to driving whereas below the affect of methamphetamine.
The cost was the newest in a rising checklist of drug-and home violence-related offences.
The 53-year-old examined constructive for methamphetamine after being pulled over for random testing about 11.30am on July 28 at Bellevue Hill, in japanese Sydney.
O’Keefe’s lawyer Jahan Kalantar instructed the courtroom the TV persona had been in rehabilitation and was co-operating with courtroom orders.
‘We settle for he has a poor visitors historical past and has struggled with addictive substances,’ he mentioned.
‘He is taken rehab very significantly.’
Andrew O’Keefe was as soon as certainly one of Channel 7’s greatest stars till a string of authorized issues
O’Keefe had been in a foreign country and returned to Australia for his plea and sentencing.
Justice of the Peace Michael Barko fined him $404 and suspended his licence for six months.
The identical courtroom was instructed in October that O’Keefe would make a real try to show his life round if given the chance to enter drug rehabilitation quite than face jail time.
He pleaded responsible on that event to drug possession, trespassing and breaching a courtroom order, with prosecutors agreeing to withdraw an extra cost of intimidation.
On the time, Justice of the Peace Jacqueline Milledge instructed O’Keefe if he continued to offend the courtroom might come to the view he was unable to be rehabilitated.
‘Your life has simply fully gone off the rails,’ she instructed O’Keefe.
‘The one individual that’s going to make your life any totally different goes to be you.’
Mr Kalantar beforehand mentioned O’Keefe was at a crossroads and risked turning into institutionalised if he continued down the fallacious path.
The ex-host was on bail in September when he skilled a near-fatal heroin overdose.
He was subsequently arrested and his gray Mercedes was searched, ensuing within the discovery of a ‘clear crystal substance’ when he reported to Rose Bay police station.
O’Keefe was a Seven presenter for greater than 15 years, most notably internet hosting recreation present Deal or No Deal and breakfast program Weekend Dawn.
He was convicted of home violence offences in January and had an enchantment on these fees dismissed earlier in September.
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