Friends of Married At First Sight star Al Perkins have hit back at ridiculous false claims he is a white nationalist after he was accused of displaying a 'racist' hand symbol while filming the Channel Nine show last year.
Photos surfaced this week of the Bondi-based carpenter, 25, displaying the upside-down 'OK' hand gesture - which some consider to be a symbol of the white-power movement - while arriving at a MAFS dinner party in Sydney on November 8.
He also displayed the 'OK' symbol on three other occasions - on October 23 and twice on October 6 - after noticing a Daily Mail Australia photographer following him.
However, sources close to the tradie have denied he has any links to the far-right, clarifying his hand gesture was perfectly innocent and dismissing the controversy - which has been stirred up by 'woke' fans on social media - as a 'storm in a teacup'.
Friends of Married At First Sight star Al Perkins (left, with 'wife' Samantha Moitzi on November 8) have hit back at ridiculous false claims he is a white nationalist after he was accused of displaying a 'racist' hand symbol while filming the Channel Nine show last year
One insider, who knows Perkins well, confirmed he was just playing 'the Circle Game' - a schoolyard joke in which you display the OK hand gesture below the waist and encourage another person to look at it.
Once they have looked at it, the other person has 'lost the game' and they receive a punch on the shoulder.
'He was just trolling the paparazzi...
Russian military command has been lying for the fifth month in a row about battlefield “successes,” claiming that Russian forces are advancing west of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region. However, this...