Musician Daniel Johns begins defamation proceedings against The Sunday Telegraph

September 20, 2019 9:23

Nationwide News, the publisher of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, is facing another defamation case, this time from Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns.

Johns alleges that The Sunday Telegraph ran a story on 11 August 2019 which showed a photo of the musician, reportedly leaving a brothel, with an article which described the sexual acts the brothel specialises in, including “brown showers” and “adult babies”.

Johns denies the allegations and said in a post to Facebook that the article was ‘simply untrue’.

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Hannah Blackiston

Hannah Blackiston was the deputy editor of Mumbrella. She worked with the company from March 2019 to November 2020.

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