The Red and Black

A Gainesville College student who told police he is an MTV reality show star was arrested and charged with battery for hitting two University students downtown, police said.

University students Katherine Leigh Walden and Sara Elizabeth Holbert flagged down an Athens-Clarke County Police officer at about 1:55 a.m. Saturday and told the officer that the man, Joshua Taylor Hill, asked them to purchase a hot dog for him while outside 195 College Ave., the police report said.

"We said 'No, we don't have any money. Buy your own hot dog,'" Holbert said in a phone interview Sunday.

She said Hill repeatedly said, "Buy me a hot dog, bitch."

Hobert said she and Walden walked away, but Hill followed and grabbed Hobert, tearing her shirt and scratching her chest.

When Walden confronted Hill, he slapped both women on their foreheads with the heel of his palm, Holbert said. Holbert said Sunday afternoon that her forehead is bruised.

Hill told the officer he was approached by the women because of his role in a MTV reality show, the report said. Hill said the women questioned his sexual orientation and admitted to slapping them.

Hill said in a phone interview Sunday he will star in a one-hour MTV show called "True Life" to air in November.

"I'm not allowed to talk about what [the show] is actually about," Hill said, but did mention camera crews shadowed him for six months this year.

He said he was intoxicated and slapped the women only after a man with them hit him first. He has no recollection of asking anyone to purchase a hot dog, he said.

The women plan to press charges, the report said.

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