Lamarre-Condon has told the court he posted a bouquet of flowers on to his story around mid-November 2023 while Baird was in Melbourne. He says it was to give the impression it was from Baird and wanted to see if another man Baird was seeing would message him and say, “well I’m also dating Jesse”. Asked if he had gone through Baird’s phone around this time, Lamarre-Condon tells the court he looked at Baird’s messages with that other man while the TV presenter was in the shower. Baird later called Lamarre-Condon and asked if he went through his phone to block someone: I denied, denied, denied … within 10 hours of denying it I essentially came clean. He and Baird went back and forth about the flower messages, he tells the court: I told Jesse the flowers were sent to my mum by her partner … that wasn’t true. I then sent a voice not by text message, saying yes I did block [the man] on your phone, that was to try to insinuate they were from you when they weren’t. I completely owned up to it