Coronavirus: Australian reality stars IGNORE social distancing advice and party

Australian reality stars ignored the government’s social distancing advice to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by living it up across the country on Saturday. 

Cast members from top-rated shows failed to keep the recommended 1.5 metres apart from each other while blissfully going about their daily lives as usual. 

Love Island Australia’s Shelby Bilby, 26, shared videos to her 157,000 Instagram fans defying the guidelines, with a friend physically climbing on top of her.

Shelby began her Saturday by posting a clip of a bikini-clad friend climbing around her body as part of a video challenge for Instagram.

She then filmed her trip to a hair salon and had her makeup done professionally.

The reality star attended a wedding in the afternoon, before spending the evening cosying up to other attendees as they danced in very close-proximity. 

While on the dance floor, Shelby pretended to lick a friend as their faces touched. 

Married At First Sight’s Jessika Power, Sam Ball and Josh Pihlak also lived it up. 

Jessika attended a house party in Perth with multiple people, where she drank directly from a champagne bottle and embraced several friends for selfies. 

The beauty shared clips of other guests jumping into a swimming pool together. 

Sam went for food and drinks in Canberra, where he wrapped his arm around friends and was filmed doing shots with a group of women. 

In Newcastle, Josh attended an event with several mates, and shared a picture of a woman lay across him and another friend. 

Josh joked: ‘When life gives ya corona, just put Luke Combs on repeat and tell ya best mate social distancing and curried sausages are on me tonight.’   

‘The show must go on. Everyone, you can still get a haircut,’ Gogglebox star Matty Fahd told his 38,000 followers while filming himself in a barbershop in Sydney.

His barber responded: ‘You can’t get corona from a line-up (haircut), cuz.’ 

Also in Sydney, The Bachelor’s Jackson Garlick didn’t let the current social distancing advice deter his gym routine on Saturday morning. 

Jackson shared a post-workout picture with his arms wrapped around two other gym-goers, as they all dripped with sweat. 

Their posts come after New South Wales Health Minister Brad Hazzard urged everybody to follow the 1.5 metre recommendation on Friday.

‘We are in a different time,’ he said, after thousands of people flocked to Bondi Beach in Sydney on Friday, with the pictures sparking outrage across the country.

‘We need to behave in different ways and that is to keep your distance. The recommendation is at least 1.5 metres. That is a sensible recommendation that people should sensibly take on board. 

‘Whether you are on Bondi or in a church, separate by 1.5 metres.’

Government advice reads: ‘Social distancing is important because COVID-19 is most likely to spread from person-to-person.’

‘So, the more space between you and others, the harder it is for the virus to spread.’

Coronavirus cases in Australia surged to 1,073 on Saturday, with 7 deaths so far.