- Fighter and wellness guru’s romance came to a bitter end
- Ruscoe faces allegations of assault, distributing intimate images
Harry Garside’s ex Ash Ruscoe has made a very telling remark about men on her dating profile as she faces charges of assaulting and stalking the Olympic boxing star.
Ruscoe has pleaded not guilty to common assault, stalking or intimidating and two counts of distributing intimate images of Garside after her arrest in the ritzy Sydney suburb of Bellevue Hill on June 12 last year.
That followed Garside being arrested at Sydney Airport when he returned to Australia after filming I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! on May 2 last year and was charged with domestic-violence-related common assault.
Garside vehemently denied any wrongdoing and both the common assault charge and an application for an apprehended violence order were withdrawn.
With their 18-month relationship well and truly over, Ruscoe is now on the dating app Hinge – and one remark on her profile seems very telling against the backdrop of her legal battle over the boxer.
The wellness guru and boxing instructor answered a series of pre-set questions and statements to create her profile, including ‘I want someone who’ and ‘The one thing I’d like to know about you is’.
In response to ‘Change my mind about’, Ruscoe simply replied, ‘Men’.
It comes after she also appeared to refer to Garside – who made headlines when he wore nail polish on his way to winning bronze at the Tokyo Olympics – in a recent Instagram post bearing the words, ‘Ask your boyfriend to break gender norms by cleaning the toilet and doing the cooking instead of wearing nail polish’.
Ruscoe was excused from attending Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court in July this year – while Garside was in Paris preparing for the Olympics – and was instead pictured sunning herself on the Greek island of Mykonos.
One video she posted to Instagram was accompanied by the description ‘I imagine this is what heaven looks like’.
Another showing a chef preparing a crustacean dish said ‘Get a man to handle you with this much care’.
Garside gave permission through his legal team to be identified as the subject of the images Ruscoe allegedly distributed.
The assault charge against Ruscoe relates to the same alleged altercation on March 1 over which Garside was charged and cleared.
When the matter came before court last August, Ruscoe’s high-profile lawyer Bryan Wrench addressed the allegations over the intimate images.
Mr Wrench said his client had displayed a photograph in her living room of Garside posing with a purple wig which had been given to her by him.
The photograph had been seen by so many visitors to Ruscoe’s home it could not be considered an intimate image and witnesses would attest to that, Mr Wrench said.
At another court appearance Mr Wrench told a magistrate he was surprised his client had been charged with assault.
Earlier this month, Garside went public with his new romance at the Melbourne Cup.
In August, Garside revealed he had met someone new and fallen in love, but didn’t uncover her identity until he had an exclusive chat with Daily Mail Australia at the race that stops a nation.
His new flame Sonny, 21, works in PR and said she met the boxer at a New Year’s Eve party.
‘And I took her out on a date two weeks later,’ Garside added.
The 27-year-old was left shattered when his Paris Games campaign ended with a loss in his very first fight, but he said it hasn’t put him off getting back into the ring.
‘I think I’ll definitely still box – I’ve still got the fire in my belly, but nothing locked in until next year,’ he said.
