Party boy Corey Delaney has become Australia's answer to Paris Hilton.
Corey Worthington Delaney (his whole name) has put Australia on notice, not only has he thrown Australia's (and apparently the world's) most well known party, racked up a $20,000 bill, given a serve to a television current affairs presenter, it seems he will get away with it and get a job as well.
Corey Delaney (or Corey Worthington - he has two names) shot into the media this week after having a party while his parents were away on holiday. He posted an open invite on MySpace and Facebook and over 500 teens showed up for the night along with at least 30 police, the dog squad and the airwing helicopter that massed at the Delaney's Narre Warren home.
Since then Corey has been on television, front page of newspapers, the number one read article on the BBC, he has done a deal with Zoo Weekly magazine and party promoters say he could earn up to $10,000 working for them.
I could see him being one of our main promoters
He has become Australia's answer to Paris Hilton. He now spends his time swanning around Melbourne's Frankston beach lapping up the attention, waering his trademark sunglasses and no shirt. He has become famous for being infamous, just like Paris and just like Paris he has got himself into trouble and is probably going to get away with it. They are both bottle blondes and are a few short of the dozen. They have both been arrested.
We have also learned some valuable lessons from Corey. Firstly, you can throw a huge party, trash your neighbourhood, damage property, rampage down suburban streets and there is nothing that the law can do about it. Melbourne QC David Galbally said there was no way Corey or his parents could be forced to pay for the cost of the damage or to fund the police callout, as suggested by Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon.
"If you have a private party, you have a duty of care to those that attend to look after them, but when they leave your premises you are not responsible for what they do," Mr Galbally said.
We have learned that if you throw a huge party, trash your neighbourhood, damage property, rampage down suburban streets you are most likely to get yourself a lucrative job on radio (NOVA have contacted him), promoting parties (one Sydney promoter wants to hire Corey to "do what he does" and organise parties for a living, "I could see him being one of our main promoters," entrepreneur Tim Sabre said yesterday.) and doing a magazine deal (with Zoo weekly).
We have learned that if you throw a huge party, trash your neighbourhood, damage property, rampage down suburban streets you will become an international celebrity and Australian urban hero. You just need to read his myspace and facebook comments to see what people think of him.
He has done it and gotten away with it. He has shown that Australia isn't run by mature grown ups any more. He has shown that we value how much money can be made from a person over their actions and lack of responsibility. He has shown millions of teens the way to get 15 minutes of fame. Look out Australia, teenage rampaging parties are just around the corner.
What Corey doing right now beside laughing all the way to the bank? According to his Facebook:
is rearrangin the tackle baby.