Eve Markoski-Wood Backs Her Mum as Wood Fights Bail

Eve Markoski-Wood reshared a mother-love montage on Wednesday, a day before her stepfather Sam Wood sat in prison greens and asked a Queensland magistrate for bail. She is 21, lists about 64,000 Instagram followers, and has made no public statement about the charges. On Thursday afternoon he appeared by video link from the Maroochydore Watchhouse. His wife Snezana was not in court. Their younger children were already back at school in Brighton.

Eve Posted a Mother Montage and Then Went Quiet

The clip Eve pushed out on Wednesday was a stack of TV and film scenes of people telling their mothers they loved them, including Gilmore Girls and Freaky Friday. She captioned it, “I love my mum. That’s probably the most obvious statement ever!” She also liked the footage. It is the closest she has come to speaking since police were called to a Hastings Street villa in Noosa on Saturday night.

She is usually loud online. In the days before the arrest she had been posting fashion in Noosa, some of it filmed by Snezana, after telling followers she was spending a week there with her mother and the rest of the family. She had just come back from Europe. She studies fashion and business at the Parsons School of Design and New York University, and her Instagram location still read Noosa.

EVE’S THREE PUBLIC MOVES

• Friday, Noosa: Fashion clips filmed by her mother, hours before police were called to the villa.
• Sunday, TikTok: A repost of strangers in a living room over the line, “Do you ever leave a social situation and you’re just like hmm that was not my best work.”
• Wednesday, montage: The mother-love edit, liked and reshared, with no mention of Sam Wood or the court.

Nothing in the Sunday clip has been tied to Saturday night. The timing still landed because she otherwise went quiet, after years of posting the blended household as content. Until recently she often posted about her closeness with her stepfather. This week the only person she named was her mum.

Only His Father Sat Through the Bail Bid

Wood, 46, is charged with assault occasioning bodily harm in a domestic violence context and strangulation in a domestic setting. Queensland police say officers went to a Hastings Street address about 9pm on Saturday, 3 October, after reports of alleged domestic violence, and charged a 46-year-old Victorian man in the early hours of Sunday, 4 October. He was refused police bail. The complainant cannot be named under Queensland law.

Queensland Ambulance Service told officials it assessed one stable patient at a private Noosa residence and that the patient declined transport to hospital. On Thursday, prosecutors tendered two photographs of the alleged victim’s injuries and a paramedic’s report. The complainant had given a video-recorded statement and, police prosecutor Jeannette Grigoris told the court, was “supportive of the charges.”

Wood sat with his hands clasped in prison-issue green, often looking at the ground, before a gallery of more than a dozen journalists. Acting Magistrate Janelle Boegheim had pushed the application past 2pm after a morning delay. His barrister David Cole and solicitor Mathew Cuskelly were in the room. So was his father, Andrew Wood, who flew from Tasmania and filed an affidavit. Immediate family had already gone home to Brighton, the court heard, so the younger children could start the last school term of the year.

THE WEEK THAT GOT HIM TO THE SCREEN

1. 3 October 2026: Police attend Hastings Street, Noosa, about 9pm.
2. 4 October 2026: He is charged and refused police bail.
3. 5 October 2026: A video mention at Maroochydore Magistrates Court; the family posts a joint statement; 28 stands him down.
4. 6 October 2026: DBG Health terminates all arrangements, effective immediately.
5. 7 October 2026: Eve reshared the mother montage.
6. 8 October 2026: Bail application by video link after 2pm. No decision was on the record when court copy first moved.

Cuskelly told the magistrate his client pointed to circumstances that might support a self-defence argument. He said the complainant had engaged with Wood in a “hostile manner” and had been yelling. Wood pushed the complainant, the lawyer said, and denied strangulation. He also attacked the photo bundle.

Given that seems to be the focus of the alleged assault, one would assume investigators would have photographed that particular area, but they are absent.

Mathew Cuskelly, lawyer for Sam Wood, Maroochydore Magistrates Court

Cuskelly said a witness statement had not yet been taken. He told the court Wood had no prior history, disputed the allegations, had been diagnosed with severe depression by a forensic psychologist, and wanted to return to Melbourne for treatment. He also wanted, the lawyer said, a chance to salvage a professional reputation that had taken a hell of a beating. By Thursday afternoon he had spent five nights in the watchhouse.

WHAT WE KNOW

• The charges: Two counts, denied, with a self-defence argument flagged.
• The complainant: Supportive of the charges, unnamed by law, video statement given.
• The family map: Snezana absent from court; younger children in Brighton; Eve’s only caption is about her mum.

WHAT IS UNCONFIRMED

• Bail: No grant or refusal was published with the first Thursday court copy.
• Saturday night: Full facts of the alleged incident have not been tested at trial.
• Who was present: A holiday group that included Snezana, three younger daughters and Eve was staying at the villa; the court has not made that into a finding about the complainant.

People looking for help can contact the 1800RESPECT counselling service on 1800 737 732.

The Family Line Met an Empty Courtroom

On Monday, the same short note went up on Sam Wood’s Instagram, which has about 253,000 followers, and on Snezana’s. It was headed as a statement from the Wood family. “This is a difficult time for all of us, we are working through this as a family and are thoroughly co-operating with the authorities.”

Three days later the family that signed that line was not in Maroochydore. School is a real reason to fly children home. It does not explain why Snezana skipped the first full bail fight, or why Eve’s only public sentence this week is about her mother. The joint note named no complainant, which Queensland law in any case forbids. It still asked the public to picture a household working as one. The courtroom pictured something else: a father from Tasmania, two lawyers, and a man in green on a screen.

They had been holidaying at La Mer, a beachfront villa on Hastings Street that lets for about $3,000 a night. Eve had been filming outfits in the street. Fellow guests remembered influencer-style clips around the pool and boardwalk. Police cars went up the strip in the last trading hours of Saturday. By Thursday the Noosa week was over for everyone except the man still in the watchhouse.

28 Cut Him Loose Before the Bail Hearing

DBG Health, the owner of 28 by Sam Wood, moved in two steps. On Monday it put him on indefinite leave. On Tuesday it said that, after further considerations, it had “terminated all arrangements,” effective immediately. “DBG Health does not tolerate domestic violence in any form, and our thoughts are with people impacted by it.” The company said 28 would keep operating under Mark Watkin, with trainers and staff still in place, and that it would say nothing more while the matter was before the court.

That ended the commercial deal that had kept Wood as the face of the platform after he sold it. In May 2022, myDNA, backed by Dennis Bastas, bought 28 in a $71.2 million deal ($US50 million). Wood had founded the program in 2016 with David Jackson. The 2022 sale papers put participation since launch at more than 400,000. He had also been the public face of Ollo for Women, a telehealth venture sitting in the same group. Partners did not wait for a magistrate.

WHO WALKED, AND WHEN

Hall, who sold her TXO platform to 28 in 2025, said she was “shocked and disturbed” and that her time with the brand had already ended. Foxes Den told followers it was aware of the serious charges and was stepping away while the case was before the courts. The corporate purge was finished before Wood ever got a hearing on bail. What was left was the family brand he and Snezana had sold since The Bachelor.

A Snack Joke Now Sits Beside a Strangulation Charge

In the days after the arrest, a TikTok Wood had posted, then deleted, started circulating again. In it he talked about late-night cravings and how he and Snezana hide food from each other. He said that even if he was “strangling her to death” she would not give the snacks up. It was framed as a gag about willpower. It is a rotten gag to have on the internet in the same week a strangulation count is on a charge sheet, even if the clip was about biscuits.

Queensland treats that count as its own crime. Section 315A of the Criminal Code makes choking, suffocation or strangulation in a domestic setting an offence with a maximum of seven years in prison. Assault is not an element of that offence. The assault occasioning bodily harm penalty is also seven years, or ten if a weapon or company is involved. The strangulation offence was written after the Not Now, Not Ever report, because non-fatal strangulation tracks later homicide risk. Cuskelly says Wood will defend both counts. That has not been proven. The deleted joke does not prove them either. It does mean his own voice is already in the public file, using the same verb the indictment uses.

She Was the On-Camera Proof of the Bachelor Family

Sam Wood chose Snezana Markoski, then a single mother from Perth, on season three of The Bachelor in 2015. He said on the finale he was ready to be a father figure to her daughter. They married in 2018. They have been together 11 years, one of the show’s longest-running couples, and they had three more daughters. Eve grew up in that story. The household was the product: holidays, workouts, mother-daughter trips, a stepdaughter who took the Wood name on social media and went to fashion school in New York.

That is why her silence is louder than a celebrity pause. Brands can fire a face in a day. A 21-year-old who has been the living exhibit of the fairy tale has to decide, in public, whether the exhibit still includes him. She has not denounced him. She has not defended him. She has posted that she loves her mum, and she has liked her own post, and she has otherwise gone still.

On Thursday the man who used to front that household asked to go back to Melbourne, to see a psychologist, and to start putting a business reputation back together. The business had already deleted him. The people who used to stand next to him in photos were in another state. The stepdaughter who used to post the closeness posted a montage of other people’s mothers instead.

The magistrate still had to rule. Until that order lands, the only family sentence on the record from Eve remains the obvious one she typed under other people’s clips. She loves her mum.

Disclaimer: This article is news reporting on allegations and a bail application. It is not legal advice, and it is not a finding that any charge has been proved. Sam Wood has indicated he will defend the charges, and a court has not decided guilt. Readers who need advice about a criminal matter or a family-violence order should speak to a qualified lawyer in the relevant state. Figures, court events and family statements reflect the public record as published on 8 October 2026 and may change as the case proceeds; anyone affected by domestic or family violence can contact 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732.