Here’s something I’ll bet you’ve never read in the same story: a stripper, an emotional support monkey, and a University of Texas football coach had a really crazy Halloween.
Yep, the internet is on fire right now with the news of the University of Texas football coach’s stripper girlfriend’s emotional support monkey biting a kid on Halloween night.
The monkey is owned by Danielle Thomas, a former stripper who goes by the name of Pole Assassin and is dating a first-year University of Texas special teams coach named Jeff Banks. Early reports indicated that the monkey belongs to Banks but is actually Thomas’ emotional support animal, or so she says.
After the attack, Thomas turned to social media to clarify that the monkey, named Gia, was an “emotional support animal who [is] not to be touched.”
Yet, Gia is reportedly part of Thomas’ pole dancing routines and can give high-fives on command.
Perhaps Gia was feeling overworked or just wasn’t in the Halloween spirit. Whatever the case, the animal wasn’t part of Thomas’ holiday festivities at her Austin home, which included a haunted house and maze that she promoted on social media and invited families to visit. According to reports, a young boy went into an “off-limits area” where the attack took place.
Gia was adamant about biting the child as her jaw had to be forcibly removed from the boy, according to reports. Officials did not disclose where on the body the child was bitten. As chaotic as this scene sounds, Thomas later said that she didn’t know Gia had attacked the boy until a doctor told her.
Thomas has shown off the duo’s talents on Instagram in the past but deleted her personal accounts after defending Gia and seemingly blaming the child for going into an area outside of her DIY Halloween fair, saying that he didn’t have permission to be there.
Aside from dating Banks, who reportedly earns $1 million annually with the Longhorns, the Pole Assassin gained attention after appearing and performing – without Gia – on The Jerry Springer Show in 2017.
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— Christian Sykes (@ctsykes13) November 2, 2021
Source: AWM