The Ashley Madison leak has claimed its first celebrity victim.
Former ‘19 Kids and Counting star’ Josh Duggar has been outed for having paid nearly $1000 (about R12 988) for two monthly subscriptions to the extramarital affairs site.
Duggar’s accounts were set up at the time he served as an executive director for the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian lobbying group which seeks to “champion marriage and family as the foundation of civilization, the seedbed of virtue, and the wellspring of society. FRC shapes public debate and formulates public policy that values human life and upholds the institutions of marriage and the family?”
The Ashley Madison billing details list two addresses, the first for a family home in Arkansas which featured on the reality show. It is also the address where Duggar’s wife Anna gave birth to their first child. The second billing address is for Duggar’’s current home in Maryland. On this account, Duggar allegedly paid $250 for an “affair guarantee”.
When Dugger still worked for the FRC, a group which also opposes same-sex relationships, Duggar claims that his family was “the epitome of conservative values”. The account went inactive in the same month (May, this year) that Duggar was accused of molesting five underage girls while he was a teenager. That revelation led to the cancellation of 19 Kids and Counting. Two of the girls turned out to be his sisters. Duggar resigned from the FRC as a result.
On Ashley Madison, Duggar listed his interests as “Conventional Sex, Experimenting with Sex Toys, One-Night Stands, Open to Experimentation, Gentleness, Good With Your Hands, Sensual Massage, Extended Foreplay/Teasing, Bubble Bath for 2, Likes to Give Oral Sex, Likes to Receive Oral Sex, Someone I Can Teach, Someone Who Can Teach Me, Kissing, Cuddling & Hugging, Sharing Fantasies, and Sex Talk.”
Entertainment Reporter