Orpheus Pledger, the Australian actor best known for his role on the popular soap opera ‘Home and Away’, has been arrested by the police after a three-day manhunt.

Pledger was wanted on assault charges stemming from an alleged attack on a woman.

The incident, captured in now-viral CCTV footage, purportedly shows Pledger dragging the woman to the ground and stomping on her head.

The actor appeared in Melbourne magistrates’ court on Monday and was charged with four counts of assault.

He was first arrested on March 25 and was held in pre-trial detention.

The movie star was granted the right to undergo an assessment at the hospital after Matthew MaCuspie, his lawyer, argued that his client’s mental health was at risk if he remained detained behind bars.

He was due in court on Tuesday for a mental health evaluation but failed to show up.

Justin Foster, the magistrate, expressed frustration at attempts to accommodate Pledger’s mental health needs.

“I will never make an order like that again … (I) bent over backwards to try and offer someone mental health treatment as they require,” the magistrate said.

Authorities issued a warrant for his arrest, leading to a manhunt that concluded on Thursday afternoon.

Details of Pledger’s arrest have not been disclosed by the police.

The actor is now required to appear in court on May 10.

Pledger’s assault case is not his first brush with the law.

In 2021, he was arrested on drug charges and received a good behaviour order.

Pledger played the character Mason Morgan on ‘Home and Away’ from 2016 to 2019.

He also briefly appeared on season three of SAS Australia before voluntarily withdrawing due to ‘erratic behaviour’.

Billie Eilish, the US singer and songwriter, has opened up about her sexuality.

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the 22-year-old revealed that she has had a lifelong attraction to women. She also said she is ready to fully embrace it.

“I have been in love with girls for my whole life, but I just did not understand — until, last year, I realised I wanted my face in a vagina,” she said.

Eilish said it took her time to accept this aspect of herself and criticised the pressure from the internet to disclose one’s sexuality.

She added that it is important to allow individuals to define their identity at their own pace.

“I was never planning on talking about my sexuality ever, in a million years,” she added.

“I have known people that do not know their sexuality, or feel comfortable with it, until they are in their forties, fifties, sixties. It takes a while to find yourself, and I think it is really unfair, the way that the internet bullies you into talking about who you are and what you are.”

Emilio Garcia, the former cameraman of Megan Thee Stallion, the US rapper, has filed a lawsuit against her over alleged sexual harassment.

According to NBC News, Garcia started working for the rapper as her cameraman in 2018 and remained in the role full-time until June 2023.

In the suit filed through his lawyers in a Los Angeles court on Tuesday, Garcia claimed he was “forced to watch Megan have sex with a woman”.

He said the incident allegedly happened inside a moving vehicle in 2022 when they travelled to Ibiza, Spain.

Garcia said he was “shocked by the overall audacity” of the rapper to “do this right beside me”.

He said he was left feeling “embarrassed, mortified and offended” after the incident.

In the suit, Garcia claimed during the trip, he was “taunted about my weight” and Megan made “fat-shaming comments” about him.

He alleged that the rapper told him to “spit your food out” and “you don’t need to be eating”.

The suit claimed Megan’s behaviour “created a hostile and abusive work environment” for Garcia, “making the conditions of his employment intolerable”.

“After a night out, plaintiff, Stallion and three other women were riding in a SUV together,” the lawsuit reads.

“Suddenly, Stallion and one of the other women start having sex right beside the plaintiff.

“Plaintiff could not get out of the car as it was moving and he was in the middle of nowhere in a foreign country.”

The lawsuit includes allegations of breaches of employment law for which Garcia is seeking financial compensation.

He also claimed he missed out on healthcare benefits after his role was “misclassified” as an independent contractor.

Garcia alleged that after the trip, he was told by Megan’s management, Roc Nation, that his services were no longer required.

He claimed that the termination of his employment was “in retaliation for my complaints of wage and hour violations”.

“More than once, Stallion interrupted plaintiff during dinner and demanded that he immediately shift his focus to assist with her TikTok creative ideas,” the suit reads.

Reacting to the lawsuit, Alex Spiro, Megan’s attorney, described it as “salacious accusations”.

“This is an employment claim for money with no sexual harassment claim filed and with salacious accusations to attempt to embarrass her. We will deal with this in court,” Spiro said.