http://www.slapcorey.com/
HE'S been called a "brat", a "bugger" and a "turd" – but no one has added "genius".
The teenager who outraged the world after throwing a party while his parents were away that left neighbouring cars and houses trashed also happens to be prodigiously media-savvy.
Corey Delaney's talent for showing up interviewers trying to trade on his vilification, while still looking like an extra from Clueless, has made him a pin-up for a generation of young Australians suspicious of the media and clued-in to the ways of modern marketing.
MHis wild ride through the headlines this week marks the arrival of Generation Z – a generation brought up on media sensationalism and seven seasons of Big Brother, who have adopted the strategies of advertisers and promoted themselves through MySpace since hitting puberty.
Corey embodies the post-Australian Idol teen, which is what makes it so enjoyable to watch him take on his detractors – most of whom come from an age when a wild teenager had a Richie Benaud haircut.
In the past week, this seemingly brain-dead 16-year-old has left seasoned media personalities looking like bigger twits than himself by refusing to flinch during on-screen interrogations and out-manoeuvring the questions of interviewers.
On A Current Affair, Corey seemed bemused by host Leila McKinnon's obsession with his sunglasses and remained perfectly relaxed while she bombarded him with demands to take them off.
"Take off those glasses and apologise to everyone you've frightened... Take off your glasses and apologise to us," she repeated, only a few seconds after the teen had already offered an apology.
He then turned the table on McKinnon completely.
"What would you say to other kids who are thinking of partying while their parents are out of town?" she asked.
"Get me to do it for you," he replied, kick-starting a series of lucrative offers sent from promoters across the country to organise more parties.
During an interview on Fox FM, Corey didn't even have to come up with a witty quote to appear more mature than his interviewer after radio host Matt Tilley lunged across the booth and tried to snatch the boy's sunglasses from him.
After getting up and leaving – sunglasses intact – Corey reportedly went back to the studio only to collect his appearance fee.
The second time ACA screened its interview with Corey, the show's producers opted not to air the boy's apology to the community but instead re-ran McKinnon's demands for one.
Even then, Corey managed to get the upper hand.
"I suggest you go away and take a good, long, hard look at yourself," McKinnon chided.
"I have. Everyone has. They love it," he replied, in a not-so-subtle reference to why the ratings-driven program was interviewing him in the first place and the star power that ACA had itself helped to create.
His unwillingness to play the game is what has kept Corey in the headlines all week, suffering insults and accusations from all sides. But he will have the last laugh. Every time Corey's name appears on screen or in print, his number of MySpace friends just goes up and up.
If you thought his first party was huge, wait until you see the next one.
― Gnomic Huckabee, Thursday, 24 January 2008 17:06 (eighteen years ago)
Best interview
and what Elmo has to say to Corey
― Gnomic Huckabee, Thursday, 24 January 2008 17:24 (eighteen years ago)
he's hot
but he's also lame (doesn't he have anything else to do with his time?)
but i guess all societies need their very own little twinkie party bois, you know to like look at and stuff
― Surmounter, Thursday, 24 January 2008 18:20 (eighteen years ago)
I predict a brighter future for him than for Chris Crocker.
― Gnomic Huckabee, Thursday, 24 January 2008 18:24 (eighteen years ago)
He is basically pulling a "my parents are going to kill me, so I might as well just flame out and ride the wave before they can get their hands on me," right?
― nabisco, Thursday, 24 January 2008 18:25 (eighteen years ago)
he clearly is a moron but kudos for telling a sanctimonious moralizing media to go fuck itself
― gff, Thursday, 24 January 2008 18:26 (eighteen years ago)
i like the part where he says his glasses are famous
― sleep, Thursday, 24 January 2008 18:27 (eighteen years ago)
Here's where it's going:
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An Australian teenager who hosted a wild party that caused a near-riot after 500 guests saw his Internet invitation has decided to turn professional and will host a national party tour, he said on Thursday.
Corey Delaney, 16, became notorious at home and abroad after throwing a party while his parents were on holidays. He posted a MySpace notice and revelers caused A$20,000 ($17,500) in damages before the party was broken up by police and the dog squad.
Delaney said he had taken on an Australian celebrity agent, Max Markson, and had given up plans to be a carpenter to host and DJ parties in Sydney and Brisbane over the next two months, with another in Melbourne on his 17th birthday on March 21.
"Working on a building site was pretty hard. Now I've got a manager, life's good," Delaney told Australian television.
Parties in Adelaide and Perth, in southern and western Australia, were also planned, he said, although life had become a "bit crazy" since he became infamous. Delaney was arrested after the party.
Markson, agent for many Australian celebrities, said the teen could make up to A$100,000 from his tour and could become rich, although Markson would pocket 20 percent of his earnings.
"He did a great party in the wrong place. We're going to put on a great party in the right place," Markson told Australian Associated Press.
Delaney has been lionized by youths as a legend and condemned as an arrogant brat by most other Australians, with Web sites inviting people to "slap Corey down the street". By Thursday Delaney had been slapped by 695,000 Internet users.
Markson said Delaney, who temporarily moved out of home to escape his furious parents, had been punished enough and should be allowed to make a living.
"His family has taken him back. He's 16 and left school. He's got to work," he said.
― Gnomic Huckabee, Thursday, 24 January 2008 18:28 (eighteen years ago)
He's **16**. I don't think he's stupid. Kudos to him to keeping his composure under the lens.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 24 January 2008 18:39 (eighteen years ago)
He seems like a bit of a prick, but not as much as all the herberts giving him grief.
― Bodrick III, Thursday, 24 January 2008 19:01 (eighteen years ago)
lol thought this thread was about chaki
― jaymc, Thursday, 24 January 2008 19:12 (eighteen years ago)
haha
The thing is I really admire this kid but I know he's just the kind of kid I would've hated in high school.
― nickalicious, Thursday, 24 January 2008 19:16 (eighteen years ago)
I've forgotten who he was already.
― SeekAltRoute, Thursday, 24 January 2008 21:15 (eighteen years ago)
oh god, nicka OTM -- I get that in all kinds of situations now, where the exact people I would have most loathed and resented in high school now strike me as funny and awesome. But I think that's just a matter of appreciating them as "fictional" characters, ones you don't have to actually be around anymore.
― nabisco, Thursday, 24 January 2008 21:23 (eighteen years ago)
some of the things that give someone power in the closed universe of high school/adolescence seem just lightly charming once you have your liberty
― gff, Thursday, 24 January 2008 21:25 (eighteen years ago)
oh no, generation zombie is on the loose
― Eppy, Thursday, 24 January 2008 22:12 (eighteen years ago)
they have digital cameras and hide their identities behind sunglasses, run for the hills
― Eppy, Thursday, 24 January 2008 22:13 (eighteen years ago)
interesting how this is still news o/s yet he hasn't appeared in any of our news since two days after the event
― electricsound, Thursday, 24 January 2008 22:15 (eighteen years ago)
Yeah, and the reactionary "interviews" mentioned in the og post are shows like ACA and fuckheads like Matt Tilley, whose opinions count for squat anyhow.
Surely there's bustup dustup crazy parties all the time. I dont understand why this one took off like it did (the media response I mean).
― Trayce, Thursday, 24 January 2008 23:07 (eighteen years ago)
yeah, ive been trying to work that out too.
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this guy is EXACTLY like every guy I went to high school with down to the gentle lilt of mental retardation in his voice.
― sunny successor, Friday, 25 January 2008 14:53 (eighteen years ago)
The kid seems like a bit of an asshole to me.
The main villains in this story are the idiot news media who ran and ran with it.
― Pashmina, Friday, 25 January 2008 17:42 (eighteen years ago)
still running with it
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,28383,25618884-5013560,00.html
― wilter, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:00 (sixteen years ago)
Worthington was expected at the irreverent publication, where he would have organised the magazine's strip-search page - a role that involves finding not so shy and retiring females to strip to their undies in shopping centres.
He also would have had to empty bins and clean the office toilet.
But in a shock move, Worthington took the offer of a real job last month on the weekend he was to fly to Sydney for his Zoo Weekly adventure. He is now working on a building site in Melbourne's outer suburbs.
You know - I have to admire him for not taking on that fucking ridic Zoo Mag job. Tradies make a bomb anyway. Kid's smarter than ppl want to admit.
― freeway onramps for arms, and a heart as black as coal (Trayce), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 23:07 (sixteen years ago)
not so shy and retiring females
O_ooooooooooooooo
― wilter, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 23:10 (sixteen years ago)