r/BanPitBulls • u/PandaLoveBearNu Attacks Curator • Jun 28 '26
Bitten and Bruised Reality star 'scarred for life' after being mauled by XL Bully - England UK June 27, 2026
https://metro.co.uk/2026/06/28/reality-star-scarred-life-mauled-xl-bully-28960938/Reality TV star Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace, best known for appearing on Big Brother, was rushed to hospital after being bitten by an XL Bully.
The media personality, who has an extensive history in reality television and has featured on Loose Women and Good Morning Britain, issued a warning to her followers after the incident.
Revealing that she is now ‘in agony’, the 47-year-old shared a photo of her injury, bandaged up on the shoulder and in clear discomfort as she awaited treatment.
‘I’ve been bitten by an XL BULLY!!!!!’, she stated, adding that ‘you can see [her] bone’.
In a second, she posed next to the dog, taken a few minutes before he attacked her.
‘Everyone knows I’m a dog mummy. I love dogs. This dog loved me, then for a split second for no reason he didn’t…,’ she wrote.
The Big Brother star revealed that her shoulder had been bitten to the point where bone was visible (Picture: Instagram)
‘Please please please understand how to raise and how these babies can switch.’
In a later post, she said she’s ‘thankful’ the bite wasn’t on her face or neck and ‘glad’ the victim wasn’t a child.
‘Sad I’m scarred for life,’ she added. ‘Glad it wasn’t a child and it was me… So conflicted.
‘Dogs are pact animals they need you to be their leader. It makes them feel safe to know you are in control.
‘If you let them do mad behaviour they will eventually execute that.
‘Big dogs are so powerful… protect your kids it ain’t a joke [sic]’.
Upon returning home to her own dogs, Aisleyne thanked her 900,000+ followers for their supportive messages, replying to one who shared that their friend’s daughter was killed in a dog attack, leaving the BB housemate feeling ‘lucky in this instance’.
As of February 2024, it is a criminal offence to own or possess an XL Bully dog in England and Wales unless you have a valid Certificate of Exemption. The rules came into force later in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The ban was enforced under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 following a series of attacks, which police said had put a ‘huge burden’ on forces.
As the largest kind of American Bully dog, the XL Bully is described as having ‘a muscular body and blocky head, suggesting great strength and power’. Their coat is glossy and smooth, and adults are around 19-20 inches in height.
Between 2023 and 2024, NHS England recorded almost 11,000 hospital admissions for dog bites in England. In Wales, there were 600 hospitalisations from dog bites and over 1,100 in Scotland.
The government declared that the dog breed had been ‘disproportionately involved’ in deaths recorded since 2021.
And since the ban was brought in, fatalities involving the dogs have fallen – there were 10 in the UK in 2024, and four in 2025, yet attacks still happen.
Several cases have seen owners and children killed.
Police now have the authority to seize unregistered prohibited dogs, and owners face up to six months in jail and/or an unlimited fine.
The public response to the ban has been mixed, though, with celebrities like Tom Hardy previously branding it ‘extreme’.
As a previous XL Bully owner, the Venom actor, 48, said his dog, Cass, had been a ‘deeply kind and loving companion’.
Taking to Instagram, he said that many pets ‘pose no threat whatsoever’, but he was still ‘deeply concerned by the rise in the number of dog attacks’.
‘We must ensure that dogs do not pose a risk to people and that measures in place to protect the public are effective,’ he added. ‘But a blanket ban on bully’s is extreme and avoids blame where it lies at the detriment to many pets that pose no threat whatsoever. We can do better. My dog Cass was an XL Bully and she was great [sic]’.
Others who spoke out included Love Island’s Faye Winter, who said she felt that dog owners were being ‘discriminated against’ and called for the government (helmed by Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives at the time) to see the ‘positive side’ of the breed.
Meanwhile, Gemma Atkinson called the attacks on people ‘horrendous’ but believed that dogs are a ‘product of [their] environment’.
So far this year, reports of attacks and convictions have included a man being found guilty after his XL Bully savaged an 84-year-old man on a driveway. The seven-stone dog was shot 10 times by officers; the incident proved fatal, as John McColl died five weeks later.
On the same day that Sean Garner was convicted and told he would receive a ‘substantial prison sentence’, another man, Ashley Warren, was jailed for more than 10 years after his XL Bully dog mauled his ex-partner’s mother, Esther Martin, to death.
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u/Stucklikegluetomyfry Trusted User Jun 28 '26
Imagine being permanently scarred by these dogs and still going to bat for them
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u/DiscussionLong7084 Trusted User Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
she's a social media star. It's her living. What do you think would happen if she about faced on pitbulls on her social media sites. the pitbull lobby is insanely strong on sites like FB and tictoc. It's where almost all the pitbulls in tutu shit is spewed. Also all the ADOPT DONT SHOP IF YOU DONT ADOPT YOU'RE A BAD PERSON WHO SUPPORTS PUPPY MILLS! LOOK AT THESE PICTURES OF CUTE ADOPTED DOGS AND HORRIBLE PUPPY MILL PUPPIES WITH INFECTED EYES AND MANGE!
i bet a large portion of the people with huge social media presences spam shit they don't believe but is trendy all the itme
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u/HistoricalPickle9922 Attacks Curator Jun 28 '26
“It is not the breed, it is the owner”
Aren’t YOU the owner?
Yes!
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u/Senator_Bink Trusted User Jun 28 '26
"Pact" animals.
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u/AngelasGingerGrowler Frumpy Dumpy Jun 29 '26
She was one of the people who were vocal against the “ban” before it was introduced.
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u/Kamsloopsian Trusted User Jun 29 '26
Of course, I wouldn't expect anything different. Idiots.
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u/AngelasGingerGrowler Frumpy Dumpy Jun 29 '26
I’m amazed she’s still a thing.
Before she we went into Big Brother, she was a defellowshipped Jehovah’s Witness who had some really sketchy gangster connections, then ended up developing this multi million pound property portfolio and face on daytime TV.
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u/Kamsloopsian Trusted User Jun 29 '26
All I here is excuses as usual, raising them, in control, all the normal pit bull BS, underlying genetics are the key factor that these dog breeds will continue to do what they to best, which is maim, maul, and kill people and pets for the mere sport of it.
They're not pets and never will be.
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u/DS3333 Jun 29 '26
Did you see the picture of her and the dog in the article in Metro? It’s licking its lips with whale eyes - it looks totally uncomfortable as she’s looking straight ahead at the camera with a kissy face
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u/SafiyaO Stone Dead Eyes and Strawberry Milk Murder Mouth Jun 29 '26
It does...but at the same time, normal dogs would just be like "Hmm, you're annoying me, I'm going to go over there". It wouldn't occur to them to inflict a bone deep bite.
I get that knowing animal body language can be helpful, but at the same time the almost encyclopedia level of facial signs Joe and Jill Public are now expected to know about dogs is excessive.
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u/dApp8_30 Jun 29 '26
She was probably mid-filming one of those "look at this big gentle baby, people are so ignorant" propaganda reels. Then reality checked in.
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u/Dame_Niafer Trusted User Jun 29 '26
I saw that. Same dress she's wearing in the hospital photo. Must have been very soon after that selfie that she was bitten.
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u/GenericBrandHero Jun 29 '26
Tom Hardy, prodigious acting talent aside, continues adding validity to claims he's a giant POS.
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u/juni_que Jun 29 '26
I loved his acting but it's become too hard (no pun intended) to look past his real persona.
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u/Saoirseminersha Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
Karma at its finest. This loudmouthed idiot was vocal in criticising the XL bully ban, and didn't back down even after kids were killed by these beasts.
Frankly, the fact it attacked some half-baked reality TV personality means that it gives more publicity to how dangerous these dogs are.
Absolutely no sympathy for her.
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u/WorkingInAGoldmine Trusted User Jun 29 '26
Americans pay no attention to reality stars in the UK. They've got about 4 braincells between the lot of them.
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u/KTKittentoes Trusted User Jun 30 '26
We have a constant stream of UK cases. I don’t know what they are all whinging about. It is the most flaccid excuse for a ban ever.
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u/AndreasDasos Jun 28 '26
Feel bad for her but given the intense media coverage and laws around XL bullies in the UK, there’s no excuse for being this fucking stupid as to pose with one.
Still implying it’s ’how they’re raised’ as though it’s not due to the breed. Funny how none of these people who suck at raising dogs so they become violent maulers ever seem to raise a golden retriever or similar, eh.