Contributor: Hannah Story
Looks like the winner of the first season of ‘Australian Ninja Warrior‘ – or at least the bloke who got the furthest, the fastest – Fred Dorrington might have just figured out how Facebook‘s privacy settings work.
The carpenter from Lismore, living in Brissy, tried to do something us non-ninjas do all the time: he posted on Facey looking for new housemates. You know the kind of posts I’m talking about: increasingly hysterical depending on how soon you need someone to take the room; pics of the place immediately after you’ve wiped up the weird spill on the kitchen counter; a set of really positive adjectives describing just how ‘friendly’ and ‘social’ your flatshare is…
He’s since either taken it down entirely, maybe because he found a taker, or he’s set it to private with ninja-quality stealth. The latter would indicate he’s realised that being a sports entertainment star (for the week) means that bloodthirsty media types are poised to report his every move, including pictures of the interior and exterior of his actual house. (Sorry, not sorry).
Tbh the reportage was bound to happen; he used a ‘Ninja Warrior‘ hashtag for Christ’s sake, not to mention explicitly calling it a “Ninja Warrior share house” in the title, and referencing Mt Midoriyama in the post.
The room, available from Monday, actually seems really reasonably priced for one in a two-storey, five-bedroom house in the West End. Maybe living with Dorrington would encourage us to take up a ~healthy lifestyle~?
We do not yet know if Dorrington is aware that this self-burn comes up when you search for him on Facebook:
We wish him the best of luck finding a roomie who won’t ask him incessant questions about what Freddie Flintoff‘s like IRL.
Source: The Courier-Mail.
Photo: Channel 9.
