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A judge has unleashed on former reality TV contestant and ex-footy WAG Arabella Del Busso after she pleaded to get out of jail early because of 'brutal' media attention.
The 33-year-old lingerie model appeared in court via video link from a western Sydney women's prison on Wednesday, watching on as her lawyer argued she had been unfairly targeted by the media.
Del Busso - who only garnered a media profile after she famously lied to her ex-boyfriend, rugby league star Josh Reynolds, about being pregnant - was appealing against the severity of her 20 month jail sentence for stealing $52,000 from her employer.
The one-time SAS Australia contestant watched on in prison greens as her barrister, Jehane Ghabrial, complained that Del Busso had been the subject of 'public humiliation' from the media and argued for a suppression order.
But NSW District Court Judge John Pickering was having none of it - responding: 'Being real about it, she's pursued it. She put herself on a reality program. She put herself on national television.
'No-one forced her to go on SAS.'
Dissgraced NRL footy WAG and reality TV show star Arabella Del Busso is making a desperate bid to get out of jail two months into her sentence for stealing $52,000 from her employer
Del Busso, 32, is locked up inside Australia's largest women's prison in far western Sydney
In a lively exchange, which had Del Busso blinking rapidly as she listened in, Ms Ghabrial replied: 'Just because somebody goes on national television doesn't mean they are inviting (people) to tear their life apart … it's like having a wound continually open.'
Judge Pickering disagreed. 'That's debatable,' he said. 'Isn't that exactly what you you seek?
'In a case that's dominating the media at the moment, in the case of Mr (Bruce) Lehrmann, that's exactly what you get.
'SAS ... It's the kind of show which people to seek to increase their profile. She has also sought to exploit it for her own profile.'
Ms Ghabrial: 'It's a matter that had nothing to do with Josh Reynolds. The media … keep dredging that up … the reporting is excessive about that.
Judge Pickering: 'When you come to a criminal court there are aspects of your character that are assessed.
'The reality is these are dishonesty offences and there are aspects of that history which are dishonest.
'We live in an Instagram, Twitter, TikTok world. Some people are private, some are public, some seek to continue .. to (work on) their profile.'
HIs Honour will deliver his decision on Wednesday afternoon on whether to grant a reduction on Del Busso's minimum 12 month sentence.
Her lawyers are pleading for a corrections order that would see Del Busso released from prison and serve her sentence in the community.
The court heard that on admission to prison, corrections authorities had immediately put her in a protection area - classifying her as a 'SMAP' meaning Special Management Area Placement prisoner.
This classification is for inmates whose profile might attract unwanted attention or even attacks by other inmates.
Her barrister argued this was a further issue of being in jail, as the SMAP inmates could only go into the jail's main yard during lunch hours.
Daily Mail Australia has also learned the glamorous ex-WAG is leading prison yard fitness training with other women while locked up in the 531-inmate capacity Dillwynia Correctional Centre, in Sydney's
