Hillbilly Joe is no Santa claws It’s hard-core action for cad
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IF you need a jaw-dropping freak show to survive another week of captivity, get your claws into Tiger King.
To quote one much-loved expert, it’s grrreatttt!
The Netflix series centres on Joe Exotic – a real-life oddball from Oklahoma with a mullet, two husbands and more big cats than Longleat.
The larger-than-life hillbilly is at war over his roadside zoo with animal activist Carole Baskin, owner of grotty Big Cat Rescue sanctuary in Tampa.
Their feud, with sidehelpings of greed, envy and threats, underpins the wildly watchable show.
Carole campaigned to persuade shopping malls to cancel Joe’s tiger-petting events.
She seems reasonable… except she’s alleged to have fed her second husband, Florida
Email me at: garry.bushell@ dailystar.co.uk or write c/o Daily Star Sunday, One Canada Square, London E14 5AP millionaire Don Lewis, to her tigers. Other bizarre characters in this stranger-than-fiction saga include Kevin “Doc” Antle, who has a harem of devoted female interns and an “institute” devoted to rare big cats in South Carolina.
Both he and Joe seem to have a cult-like hold over their staff, who work long hours for little money.
Missing limbs abound – when a tiger mauled keeper Kelci’s left hand she chose to have it amputated so she could get straight back to the zoo, rather than wait months for surgery.
Their work really can cost an arm and a leg.
Would-be country singer Joe, born Joseph Schreibvogel, is a charismatic lunatic currently serving 22 years in a Texas penitentiary after being convicted of trying to hire an undercover Fed to assassinate Carole.
He was also found guilty of violating the Endangered Species Act. Ironically, he’s ended up in a cage himself.
Meanwhile, his heavily inked ex-husband John Finlay has had his teeth fixed and gone straight.
Don Lewis is still missing. This is a whole new world of weirdness. Truly, nobody does whacko like the Yanks.
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