Eric Herbert who glued himself to Brisbane street is triplet brother of Elisha and Renee Herbert

A climate protester who shut down the Brisbane CBD by gluing himself to a busy street is a twin brother of two supermodels and former private school captain.

Eric Serge Herbert, 19, is the least successful of a set of triplets that includes international models Elisha and Renee Herbert.

While his sisters strutted the catwalk, he studied nanoscience at UNSW in Sydney before dramatically quitting in April to be a full-time anti-Adani activist.

Herbert is now back in his Queensland home town where he is funded by his parents who sent all three triplets to private school. 

They attended Unity College, a Catholic and Uniting Church school in Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast, where Herbert was school captain. 

'Yeah, he lives in Sydney and studies science – he's super smart,' they told Husskiemagazine in 2017 before their brother dropped out.

'He's not into [us being models and influencers] at all, he's so not about it. He doesn't let us take photos. We have like one photo of him.' 

While at school, Elisha and Renee 'fell into' modelling aged 14 when they were scouted on Instagram. 

The pair now each have 1.4 million Instagram followers and contracts with Chadwick and Elite Models in Sydney and Los Angeles.  

Elisha and Renee wanted to be marine biologists growing up and dabble in environmental activism - just in a less extreme way that their brother.

The twins went on a snorkelling trip to the Great Barrier Reef to highlight coral death, and worked with a rhino charity in Africa.

'Armchair revolutionary' Herbert was fined $550 for the stunt he performed with a female activist by the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

The court heard he does not work or study and lives off his parents since he quit studying.  

Herbert unnecessarily spent the night in police custody as he refused to sign his bail undertaking when police tried to release him.

When he was released on Wednesday morning, Herbert was still wearing the same grey and white onesie he was arrested in.

'He was offered bail but like a true armchair revolutionary he wasn't going to sign it,' Magistrate Suzette Coates said.

He also refused legal aid and chose to represent himself, smiling and nodding as the prosecutor described his actions on Tuesday, The Courier Mail reported. 

'How long did it take them to unglue these people off the street?' Ms Coates asked to which Herbert responded 'three hours'.

Herbert pleaded guilty to public nuisance and contravening a direction and was fined $550 with no conviction recorded.

Ms Coates asked if the woman he'd glued himself to the road crossing with was his girlfriend.

He replied 'maybe in the future'.

'She's obviously someone who you, shall we say, feel some magnetism towards,' Ms Coates said.

Herbert, an unemployed former university student who is supported by his parents, told the court he was protesting the 'genocide of life on earth'.

'I am officially dropping out of studying nanoscience at UNSW to focus all of my energies to stopping climate change through civil disobedience and radical action,' he posted to Facebook in April.

'I don't care what punishment I get. Nothing's going to stop me from doing this again,' he said.

Herbert's female co-accused is expected to face court next month. 

During the protest on Tuesday, he told AAP they were protesting against 'an extinction'.

'I can't live with myself knowing that's happening and not doing anything about it,' Herbert said. 

Source: Daily Mail

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