Despite Barnaby Joyce's tell-all interview with Seven's Sunday Night program just a week ago, it appears the former deputy prime minister is still attracting attention from paparazzi who want to know more.
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The backbencher took to Twitter on Sunday to plead for privacy after spotting a man with a camera "hiding in the bushes" outside St Mary and Josephs Catholic Cathedral in Armidale where he attended Sunday Mass.
"We did the Sunday program to stop this, this is why we need a tort of privacy," Mr Joyce said in one of two posts on Twitter.
In footage of the incident, photographer Guy Finlay, who is employed by Matrix Pictures, accused Mr Joyce of "sizing him up" to "punch him".
"You pulled your right hand back and if I hadn't of actually walked away, you would have clubbed me," he said. "Go back to your regular job as a bouncer."
Mr Joyce called the claims "rubbish" and repeatedly asked Mr Finlay for his name and who he worked for, but he refused to provide a response.
People accompanying Mr Joyce told Mr Finlay to "leave them alone", calling him a "rotten snake" for hiding to get a photo.
"Don't get a photo of the bloke. Can't he just even come to church to pray to God without you? What are you doing, mate?" a man accompanying Mr Joyce said in the video.
Matrix Pictures chief executive Ben McDonald said that, despite Mr Finlay's claims of Mr Joyce threatening violence, he would be advising him not to file a police report over the incident at this stage.
Mr Joyce's pleas for privacy come after scrutiny of his relationship with former staffer and now partner Vikki Campion.
The Sunday Night interview, controversial for a $150,000 payment to Mr Joyce and Ms Campion, delved into some of the details of their affair and the birth of their son, Sebastian.
In it, Mr Joyce described Nationals who "are supposed to be conservatives" as "scum of the earth" for trying to pressure Ms Campion to have an abortion.
He likened Federal Parliament to a "mad boarding school" where people tried to "make an incredibly difficult situation almost unbearable".
Ms Campion filed a breach of privacy complaint against The Daily Telegraph for publishing revelations of her relationship with Mr Joyce while she was pregnant, but has since dropped it to focus on motherhood.
Critics called the pair's paid interview with Seven hypocritical after they complained about privacy to the News Corp-owned paper, but accepted the sum for an interview with the network.
