A troublesome development.
In what is rudely being called “the most awkward photoshoot ever,” professional surfer and Instagram celebrity Ellie-Jean Coffey is “making waves” again and this time with a magnificent racehorse named Rapido Chapparo.
You’ll certainly recall the last time we saw the most popular of the Coffey Clan (1 million followers as opposed to sister Holly-Daze’s 944k, Ruby-Lee’s 437k and Bonnie-Lou’s 379k) leading the morality police straight to Derek Rielly’s door, pitchforks held high, falsely accusing Australia’s most august biographer of “lewdly ambushing” her whilst on the bus.
Those were halcyon days indeed but thankfully you can’t keep a good Coffey down and the only place to turn is the UK’s Daily Mail for the absolute latest in this horror story.
You can hardly call Ellie-Jean Coffey the horse whisperer.
The 24-year-old surfer appeared to have been freaking out during a photoshoot with an unsuspecting racehorse in Sydney on Wednesday.
Ellie-Jean was seen ducking and recoiling as she posed alongside the animal, who seemed equally as terrified of her.
Speaking to Daily Mail Australia, Ellie-Jean admitted she was scared of the animal because its black eyes reminded the traumatised surfer of a ‘great white shark’.
The horse, Rapido Chaparro, is the favourite to win the City Tattersalls Club race this Saturday.
And while the lamestream media may find this fear awkward and irrational, we surfers know that terrible Great White sharks are, indeed, evolving and may very well be masquerading as racehorses. We know there is no low to which they won’t stoop.
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Are you sure she isn’t just embarrassed by that ugly hat and what I’m guessing is an equally ugly dress?
another shark story for you today in australia
Jeezus that double chin / spare tire thing is absolutely ITCHING to burst out.
Once you see it, its all you see.
She’s probs just jealous that race horse now has better prospects than her in retirement
Yep , I don’t no anybody who puts Coffey out to pasture ?
She used to rip. She looking pretty chunky at the moment, might have to re balance the pie to blow ratio though
Correction: The horse, Rapido Chaparro, WAS the favourite to win the City Tattersalls Club race this Saturday …
Only the tin foil kind
Was the horse OK? Look at it’s eyes it’s deeply afraid of fat chicks.
Which one is the Horse??
Someone should try to erase her fear of White Sharks by pointing out they are diphallic.
Double Dicked …. really ? No wonder they are such great predators …..
I’m not sure I wanted to know that there is more than one Coffey sister, and now I learn there are 4. And each of them has 2 names. Patiently waiting on the giant asteroid
ha
There’s probably a biting comment about the mistreatment of horses within the racing industry (an issue in AUD at the moment), but I can’t think of it!
Okay I thought of something “Evidence of the mistreatment of horses within the Australian racing industry!” – lame I know.
Surely only the lame horses get mistreated (though former champion horses who make embarrassing videos of themselves with their flaky gurus and dumb girlfriends should also be mistreated)
The horse is looking terrified because she’s going to eat it if it doesn’t win
Perhaps she smells of IKEA meatballs
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When White Horses mag was christened – fark, eight years ago now – it wasn’t some quaint romanticised reference to a windy sea-state, it was all about this Shark/Horse/Fusion Terror. Now, finally, the connection has been made explicit.
Up there with Audrey Hepburn this gal.
Well, horses do kill more people in Australia than sharks do. So, maybe Chas should get off his high-horse about sharks and do some proper horse journalisming.
Horses invading line ups and such
They’re probably in kahoots.
is there any evidence that it’s not a shark?
That’s what frustrated me as well. The fake news jumping to wild conclusions.
Eyes don’t lies
Certainly smells fishy ……the horse that is ?
a shark dressed as a horse walks into a bar …
Followed by a Grasshopper . The Barman says to the Grasshopper “ We have a drink named after you . “ and the Grasshopper replys “ You have a drink named Bob ? “ …..
This is a chilling development (and thanks for the heads-up – it’s hard to keep up with what sharks are up to these days) but on the plus side I now have a rock-solid excuse for not contributing to my daughter’s riding lessons.
A horse and a shark
Walk into a cafe and
Order a Coffey
A Great Flat White please
Asks the emotionless shark
Water for the horse
a double double
sweet!
Feature this immediately.
did the horse drink?
You can take a horse to water but you can’t make it drink …… ?
Or blink…
Those pictures are hilarious! I’ve never seen someone so nervous around a horse. Rapido Chapparo didn’t look like Ike one of the nutso horses that seem like they are gonna kick you in the face or bite your nipples off. I once rode a giant race horse, not a thoroughbred but some kind of crazy thing and it was scary, didn’t slow down no matter what I did, just bolted through the hills until it was out of gas.