Party Down South’s Deadbeat Dad Josh Murray in Jail for Child Support
So much for the lovable, huggable character that is portrayed on CMT’s flagship reality show Party Down South. Saving Country music is able to report that the large, Louise, Mississippi native famous for getting naked at a moment’s notice on the show is currently incarcerated in the Humphreys County, Mississippi jail for back owed child support to the tune of $14,000, which could result in a felony charge. Murray was taken into custody early Wednesday, January 7th, and as of Thursday afternoon, still remained incarcerated. When Saving Country Music called the Humphreys County Jail in Belzoni, Mississippi to confirm the arrest and incarceration was indeed the Josh Murray from the show, a representative said, “Yep, it’s him.”
This is the second instance of legal trouble for the reality show star in recent months. Known for drinking excessively on the show, Murray was arrested in Rankin County, Mississippi on November 15th, and charged with DUI and driving with a suspended license. Murray had his license suspended from previous DUI charges. Those charges could have his license suspended for two years.
The arrests and legal issues will not affect Josh Murray’s appearance on the upcoming season of Party Down South because the episodes have already been taped. We know Josh Murray has been making money off the show after the cast all signed lucrative deals after holding out before the second season. Apparently that money never made it to Murray’s offspring.
Josh Murray’s legal troubles are just one in a long list of incidents that have plagued the CMT show. Louisiana native Lyle Boudreaux was arrested in Maurice, LA for burglary of a vehicle at a Mardi Gras parade. Boudreaux found an unlocked car, rifled through a woman’s purse, and stole a credit card to fund the night’s drinking. Mattie Breaux of Louisiana was also served a bench warrant after she failed to appear in court as part of a pretrial hearing in March. The hearing was for a previous arrest for driving while intoxicated. Breaux was taping Season 2 of the reality show at the time of the hearing.
Then in early August, Ryan “Daddy” Richards, was accused of rape by a woman who says she entered the Party Down South house, was handed an open beer, and woke up later naked in a bed with a camera in her face. The woman went to the hospital the next day, and according to medical professionals, showed signs of sexual assault. An investigation by local police that included interviewing cast and crew and reviewing footage, did not result in any charges being filed. A day later, one of the cast members, Taylor “Lil Bit” Wright, permanently quit the show amidst what she characterized as safety concerns.
Party Down South has come under heavy scrutiny for its portrayal of Southerners in the show. Season 2 was initially scheduled to be taped in Pensacola, FL, but had to move to Athens when local residents and businesses did not want the show blemishing the city’s reputation. The third season also found trouble securing a location near Biloxi, and were turned down for a location in nearby D’Iberville before finally finding an appropriate house. Ben “Cooter” Jones of The Dukes of Hazzard fame has also been a vocal opponent of the show.
A second franchise of the controversial show called Party Down South 2 started airing in November as CMT follows the regular pattern of Viacom-owned music-based cable stations of becoming a vehicle for reality TV instead of sticking to their music programming.
January 8, 2015 @ 12:55 pm
Folks, a little housekeeping if you will indulge me. Unfortunately because of some issues we are facing with the site, we’ve had to re-implement Captchas on the comments, and eliminate the “like” feature on the comments. Hopefully we can restore the “likes” and eliminate the captchas ASAP, but right now that’s the only way to ensure the site remains live.
And unfortunately because of technical issues with the site this morning, we were unable to conduct the live blog of the “Little” Jimmy Dickens funeral as planned, so please no, “You’re covering this crap but not “Little” Jimmy?” If we are able to recover some data, we may post a recap soon.
As you were.
January 9, 2015 @ 6:14 am
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January 8, 2015 @ 2:37 pm
Don’t get me wrong, I think the dude’s a piece of trash and he and his kind make me ashamed to admit I’m a native Mississippian ”” but how’s he gonna make money to pay his child support if he’s locked up?
January 9, 2015 @ 5:12 am
Don’t be ashamed-neither this guy nor this show represent Mississippians or southerners, anymore than the movie “Valley Girls” represented Californians.
January 9, 2015 @ 6:36 am
I have always thought that too. The first step is taking your driver’s license away. I fell two months behind in 2010 after being laid off – had been working off books so no unemployment – and the state threatened to take mine. Doesn’t add up.
January 8, 2015 @ 4:08 pm
My dad owes over $25,000 in child support and he’s not in jail. Not sure where he IS, but he’s not in jail.
January 8, 2015 @ 4:18 pm
Look’s like the party is over over there buckaroo.
January 8, 2015 @ 7:20 pm
Has anybody done some kind of survey to determine if people really believe this is an accurate representation of the south? Not that the show’s producers and actors would care much, but the should, because like I once said before, if people really think southerners are as idiotic and party oriented as they are portrayed on this show, and as bad as they are represented by the actors in real life, this could have drastic consequences on our nation. It could lead to discrimination. Think about this; some school recently would not hire a woman of Irish descent because her people allegedly have a “drinking problem.” Just think what they could say about southern Americans because of all this stuff! But these shortsighted people don’t think about that, all they want is immediate money, and a lot of the people who perpetrate the Bro-Country abomination of American culture are too stupid to form a second grade sentence structure, let alone rationally ponder the future of civilization!
January 8, 2015 @ 9:29 pm
The way I see it, is that stupid shows get put on tv and people automatically assume that’s how the hosting state acts. Look at a show like jersey shore, after that aired people assumed everyone from New Jersey was an asshat who had a fake tan and abs. Also party down south, because of that show man ill-minded folks will think that’s how the entire south acts. Hell I’m from Northern California and because of the media, everyone I tell that too thinks I live the life of the people off of the show The Hill, or Laguna Beach when in actuality I’m from a small farming town. In my opinion every single state in the US is the exact same, parts of them have party folk, snobby folk, country folk and hipster folk etc. Too say that one state is more country than another or that one state partits more is just a useless opinion that probably Is coming out of the mouth of a douchecanoe. Like I said, every states the same, the media is really the only thing that makes certain states or parts of the US look bad.
August 13, 2023 @ 11:32 pm
I know a few of them personally and they would give anyone the shirt off their back to help them. They’re being theirself and genuine. I love reality shows but PDS is by far my favorite.
January 8, 2015 @ 7:28 pm
Reminds me of this farce the music parody of Bos ‘Round Here:
Well the boys ’round here don’t graduate from high school
Drunk as Bocephus, sit around and shoot pool
In a trailer park, laugh and light farts
All day; what? (Okaayy)
Yea, and how they flauntin’, selling Oxycontin
Gotta move a few more pills, make a few meth deals
To get paid, to drive that Ford
It’s a hard knock life (Eighteen with two ex-wives)
January 8, 2015 @ 8:20 pm
Yea the boyz ’round here
Drinking that Busch Ice beer
Talkin’ ’bout hos, hangin’ truck nuts
Saggin’ them sparkle jeans down, showin’ some butt
The boyz ’round here
Hell naw they ain’t scared to drive around impaired
Fake-ass hicks with skulls so thick
Chew tobacco, chew tobacco, cancer of the lip
Yep, I thought of the same thing.
January 9, 2015 @ 4:53 am
I’m from Mississippi (born in and spent part of my youth in Vicksburg, spent most of my adult life in Biloxi), and this is how I feel about it-even without this show, it suits small-minded, self-righteous people to choose to believe that native southerners are inbred, illiterate hicks. I stopped worrying about it a long, long time ago. They aren’t ignorant-not in this global, mass media age, they aren’t-and there has been information out there for years showing that we aren’t any of those things. So if they believe it, it’s because it fulfills some desire they have to believe it. I couldn’t change that even if I could hold them as a captive audience and explain all the ways in which they’re wrong-they want to believe the worst. As long as my life is good, which it is, and they don’t have the power to make it bad, which they don’t, it’s a free country and they can believe whatever they choose. It won’t take one wink of sleep or one tomato sandwich away from me 🙂
January 9, 2015 @ 1:56 pm
I believe we were well educated, intelligent, open minded people before the internet age or mass media became prolific. Those things have made information more readily available, so I do understand that those things are positive and beneficial in many ways. But I resent them to, and for the reason’s you just mentioned, the homogenization of people, the loss of regional accents and dialects, I feel like we are losing our culture, and an artificial culture is being adopted because that’s what people see in the media and then they begin emulating it. I’m 25 and in that short time I’ve such seen such a huge change in the way we live, and much of it has been negative. It makes me sad that my two boys will never hear in person the way they’re great grandparents used to talk. The people from around here from my generation, including me, all have an accent but it’s nowhere near as strong as previous generations. Even something as small as that is disheartening.
July 17, 2018 @ 12:36 pm
I’ve lived in biloxi/Gulfport for years….the state as a whole is trash along with those citys…theres no room for success unless you are in the food and beverage industry, nothing to do but be an alcoholic, literally that’s all anyone does in gulfport/Biloxi is drink or pop pills…oh everyone from their actually thinks they are tough too ????????
January 9, 2015 @ 5:02 am
Just as my not especially well-traveled (only Canada and Mexico) knows better than to believe that Australians go around singing ‘Waltzing Matilda” and dodging kangaroos, instead of living in throughly modern cities with access to every modern amenity the rest of the First World has. It’s just not like that anywhere, anywhere-mass media and especially the internet age is globalising and homogenising people at an ever-incresing rate, barring a few idiosyncrasies in cuisine, which we often hold to more out nostalgia and the human need to belong to our culture and history, than a lack of access to other things. Even regional accents are being flattened out.
January 9, 2015 @ 5:06 am
Please excuse the multitude of miss-spellings in previous comment-I can spell, I just can’t type 😀
January 9, 2015 @ 6:18 am
Ryan “Daddy” Richards, heretofore known as Ryan ‘Bill Cosby’ Richards.
Allegedly.
January 9, 2015 @ 7:32 am
All good points. I just think it sucks that shows like this give people ammunition, even for as small a segment of the population as it is.
And then there’s Ole Miss fans…
January 9, 2015 @ 9:04 am
For the record, I go to Ole Miss, and most people DON’T do all that stupid stuff. It’s just the people who are actually stupid, meaning a lot of football players and frat/sorority people that do all that. So yeah, the people who are in the spotlight are genuine dumbasses like FGL, but it is not an accurate representation of Ole Miss or Oxford, my home town.
January 9, 2015 @ 10:30 am
They need to let him out to see how long it takes him to go for a trifecta with a domestic violence or bad check writing charge.
This guy’s presence in the drunk tank will bring down the social and moral fiber of the inmates as a whole.
And no, he is not representative of the state of Ms, which I love and regard as a pretty well-kept secret.
We farm there and I spend as much time there as I can.
January 9, 2015 @ 12:54 pm
Why any woman would want to mate with that ogre of a man-child in the first place is beyond me.
January 9, 2015 @ 3:08 pm
So how long until we see Finebaum regulars Phyllis from Mulga or Tammy from Clanton on this show???
February 21, 2015 @ 7:54 pm
Guy’s I know the hormones are flowing, but for your own sake; Don’t knock up the wrong one! It’s just not worth it? Plus–it’s always the wrong one’s who happen to
pee positive?
April 11, 2015 @ 9:09 pm
Bottom line if you don’t like the damn show don’t watch it plain and simple and yes as a southerner we do drink and party and no we’re not all white trash funny how its the ignorant stuck up yankees always saying that bullshit. Who gives a damn if he was behind on child support get a fucking life and don’t worry about his
June 30, 2015 @ 9:21 pm
I grew up in Yazoo County with Josh and the rest of our friends. I’ve seen how good of a father he was to his son and his ex’s child to boot! I have been there-with our other friends as well, when that person brought the kids, (kept them in the vehicle) and wouldn’t let him see them after he begged for months to see both babies. I don’t know if you have ever witnessed a grown man that big cry or not (height-wise as well, he was actually pretty thin then,) but it’s not pretty!!! He did everything in his power to see and support them. So keep in mind that if he didn’t get receipts for payments or purchases for his child, he could/can still get in trouble. Which, knowing Josh and how sweet he is, he probably didn’t get receipts. This guy will literally give you the shirt off his back! I dare anyone else to throw a stone at him that wasn’t there when he went through these things. I was. He has NEVER been a dead beat Dad!!!! He is also still a great guy! Naysayers, shut it!!!!
February 7, 2016 @ 2:06 pm
Its just a show I think everyone needs to calm down because you cant always believe this it might not be true. If people are this stupid to believe that southerns really act like this. I personally love the show and I aint gonna stop watchin it because its JUST A SHOW!
February 25, 2016 @ 4:14 pm
I grew up in Georgia. I watch this show because I find it more true to life than most here want to admit. I left the south long ago, not because of this behavior, but because of conflicting ideologies. Lets all take notice that when the cast goes to tractor pulls or mud races that they are not the only ones there. The places are packed. They aren’t punching each other in the bars they go to, others are there brawling with them. I can certainly admit that there are exceptional people in the southeast, but by and large the populace leans more toward this show than away from it.
March 11, 2016 @ 12:25 am
I like the show and if Murray is in jail I’d bail him out..stop judging people when you don’t no all the facts.It’s just a show entertainment..God people grow up give it a break..DAMM if you do DAMM if you don’t..media just love’s this crap..ohh you probably have a virus or hacked if you’re not protected properly on the web internet..marketing site for grabbing your information about you
April 25, 2016 @ 10:37 am
It’s just something to laugh at,definitely not to be taken seriously
May 20, 2016 @ 12:29 pm
I absolutely love the show and am heartbroken that it’s over. I don’t think it portrays how southerners act at all, it shows the lives of these individuals and how they live their life. I mean they are on vacation when doing the show, with that being said who don’t act like a fool when you’re on vacation? I’m almost positive that the cast don’t act like this all the time. What is wrong with people having fun? I love the party down south cast and they definitely don’t deserve this bash session!
November 16, 2022 @ 9:46 pm
Yee ha, that Josh Murray is FAT S O B LOSER.
Jealous b**** because he can’t get no leg so he gets all mad at Daddy and hot dog for hooking up. Him and dat blonde were the biggest drama bitches.
And too top it off he’s a loser in real life, dead beat. Who would ever have a child with him.
And that DADDY ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed either. That beautiful gurl HOTDOG, liked daddy, and he didn’t want her as a GF , what a loser. Then then the fat bastard bitches about them having fun at the mud party??!!?! Like WTF DUDE, how’d he get on the show. I guess the dumber you are, your qualified!!!
November 16, 2022 @ 9:49 pm
Mattie, MARTHA IS A FREAKSHOW!