He didn’t come down to my place to punch me, I went down to his place so it’s very difficult to say we were equally to blame, because actually there have been times when we have been equally to blame but on that one it was me. Gyngell is bearded, barefoot and wearing black tracksuit pants with a thick white stripe. I put him in more of a precarious situation, which I shouldn’t have done being the person he is and the responsibilities and the governance issues he has. Gyngell was waiting outside Packer's house early on Sunday afternoon, sitting on the boot of his car for about 20 minutes as the casino mogul was chauffeured home after arriving aboard his private jet at Sydney Airport. “He sent me a note saying: ‘I’m on my way home for Christmas - a homeless bloke is not going to attack me out the front of my house’.” Just before Christmas, Gyngell said he received a note from the Crown Casino boss, warning him of his homecoming. He said the pair still made light of the situation. When it comes to friendship, being like a brother, I’m a little bit older than him and maybe I get on my high-horse sometimes when I shouldn’t.” ![]() I don’t look at him the same way other people look at him. “We’ve had blues in the past - not as good as that one - at tennis camp, at pony club camp, and those sorts of things when we were 7 and 8, 9, 12, and 13. On that day, my buttons were pushed and I made the mistake and I have taken responsibility for it. After 40 years, you’re pretty good at knowing how to push each other’s buttons. 6 Gyngell's second cousin is Kym Gyngell. In 2004, he married journalist and presenter Leila McKinnon. “When someone’s more like your brother than a friend, these things happen. Gyngell is the son of Australian television pioneer Bruce Gyngell and the best man and former flatmate of James Packer, whom he first met at Cranbrook School, the former owner of the Nine Network. “Oh yeah, we restored it pretty well straight away,” he said of their friendship. However, the pair made up almost immediately afterwards, he said. While it was not the first fight he had had with his childhood friend of 40-years, it was the “biggest”, he said. Gyngell said he accepted full responsibility for the fight, which occurred outside Packer’s Campbell Parade Bondi pad early last year. Camera Icon David Gyngell breaks his silence on his punch-up with James Packer. The dust-up, which is believed to have occurred over Packer’s friendship with model Miranda Kerr soon after his split from wife Eric Baxter, captured global attention with each being fined $500. “I hadn’t shaved because I’d been away and (James) had just had flown in from a trip so he was in his tracky-dacks.” “And then she sees the photos and was more upset of how badly dressed I was and how I hadn’t had a shave. RE-LIVE PACKER AND GYNGELL’S VICIOUS STREET BRAWL Camera Icon Gyngell’s says wife Leila McKinnon called him an “idiot” after hearing about the brawl. ![]() “Coming home to my wife, she said: ‘What happened? You’ve done what?’ And then she said: ‘You idiot,” he said. 7/14 Billionaire James Packer and Channel Nines David Gyngell just moment away from toppling to the group during a fight on a Bondi street on Sunday.
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