Colourful, mohawked former London paparazzi photographer, Geelong nightclub owner and one-time Geelong mayor Darryn Lyons may have been channelling this familiar social media technique when he shared photos of himself with radio star Kyle Sandilands, Aussie music sensation Guy Sebastian and others at Sandilands’ 50th birthday bash at the weekend.There was also plenty of video footage of the spectacular Sydney show.The former “Mr Paparazzi”, who has claimed to still possess the photos of a dying Princess Diana — which he says he would never publish — even went so far as to hashtag himself #themayor, more than five years after he was sacked from the job by the State Government in 2016.Embracing the party’s dress code of gold — wearing gold glasses and a gold embroidered jacket — Lyons even appeared to gift Sandilands a framed picture of a woman holding her breasts. The shock jock looked just that in the picture.Sandilands’ lavish bash aboard a $3000-per-hour super yacht on Sydney Harbour didn’t feature the A-listers like Hollywood star Zac Efron, it was more a low key crew including his entire radio production team.Singers Sebastian, Samantha Jade, retired NRL star Beau Ryan, boxing legend Jeff Fenech and TV exec Michael Pell were all among the partygoers.Sandilands arrived to the super yacht via a classic speedboat with his former assistant and now live-in girlfriend Tegan Kynaston.Lyons was ceratinly lapping up the festivities, posting photographs and video from the night, and toasting with glasses of champagne.Lyons, in his own column in the Geelong Advertiser in 2017 wrote about Princess Diana: “I had, and I still have, the photographs of Diana dying in the car”, he said, in reference to his part as the owner of a major pap London photography company at the time of her tragic death in the Paris tunnel.“I was offered a quarter of a million pounds by The Sun and News of the World and a similar deal by News International for American publication,’’ Lyons wrote.“But when I heard Diana was dead I immediately withdrew all the images from the market on moral grounds. No deals were done. It was a huge decision. Ultimately, my decision served my BIG Pictures well. There ended up being a lot of respect in the industry for what I did.”Lyons was sacked as mayor after a scathing report exposed a culture of bullying and dysfunction at the council.
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