JAMES Argent is back on stage, smiling, singing, and acting like the past few weeks haven’t happened.
Like the night he shoved his girlfriend, , 32, down a flight of stairs in – leaving her bruised, hurt and scared.
Like the court case where he admitted what he did and was handed a suspended sentence and a restraining order.
But here’s the thing. It did happen. And Arg’s casual comeback isn’t just tone-deaf. It’s insulting.
It was May 5th when the in La Cala de Mijas.
An argument turned violent and Arg, 37, shoved the beauty queen down a flight of concrete stairs – leaving her with .
Her screams were so loud that neighbours called the police.
Prosecutors were so horrified by her injuries, they initially sought to charge him with wounding and pushed for a nine-month prison sentence.
But under a plea deal, Arg admitted to the lesser offence of “mistreatment”;;.
Along with his six-month suspended sentence and two-year restraining order, he was ordered to complete a 10-week domestic violence rehabilitation programme.
Sounds like enough to stop anyone from strutting back into the public eye, right? Wrong.
Weeks later, he looked completely carefree while in .
Grinning, playing up to the crowd, posing for snaps with fans and acting like the assault didn’t happen.
He’s even .
I can only come to the conclusion that he’s completely ignoring his publicist’s advice.
Arg’s one and only public statement was self-absorbingly vague.
Referring to his former struggles with addiction, he told MailOnline: “I haven’t relapsed. I am still three years and four months clean and sober. I am devastated by what’s happened.”;;
Pardon? Did I read that right?
All I’m hearing is me, me, me.
And that’s the real scandal here. The way Arg has managed to spin it into an opportunity to pity himself.
He’s not acting like a man who just faced a domestic violence conviction. He’s acting like a man hard done by. A man looking for sympathy.
He said he was “devastated”;; – but didn’t even publicly apologise to Nicoline by name.
No, “I’m sorry.”;; No, “I take responsibility.”;; Just a statement focused on his own feelings, as if he were the victim in all this.
But what’s even more disturbing is the deafening silence from his celebrity friends and former castmates.
Where are the statements condemning what he did? Where is the outrage? Not one high-profile pal has publicly criticised him.
Not one co-star has taken a stand. It’s as if they’re all waiting for it to blow over – or worse, pretending it never happened.
That silence is complicity.
If these influencers can post about mental health one minute – and then say nothing when one of their own violently assaults his partner – what does that say about them?
So, Arg – stop playing the victim. Stop acting like nothing’s happened. Apologise to Nicoline, own what you did, and start making amends.
