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Fibula's No-Contest DUI Still Stands
Connor Wood, the comedian known as Fibula, pleaded no contest in April 2025 to a Manhattan Beach DUI. He is a Dancing With the Stars semifinalist, and the court record still lists three years of summary probation as in effect.
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A no-contest plea is a conviction, and three years of summary probation is the sentence the court imposed. The online record still listed that probation as in effect on Nov. 12. Early termination and an expungement are what his side expects, not orders the court has entered.
Connor Wood, the comedian known as Fibula, is a Season 35 semifinalist on Dancing With the Stars. His legal name is Connor Wood Masich. In April 2025 he pleaded no contest to misdemeanor driving under the influence. That plea is the conviction.
He was stopped around 2 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2024, in Manhattan Beach, California, on suspicion of driving under the influence. The reported blood-alcohol concentration was above 0.20%. He was charged in March 2025 with driving under the influence and with driving with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.08% or higher.
On April 25, 2025, he pleaded no contest to the driving-under-the-influence count before Judge James P. Cooper III. The blood-alcohol count was dismissed. The court suspended the sentence and placed him on three years of summary probation. He cannot drive with any measurable alcohol in his system, and he has to have a valid license. The court ordered fines, a MADD Victim Impact program, and a licensed DUI education program.
The Los Angeles Superior Court record still listed the probation as in effect on Nov. 12, 2026, and listed his custody status as on probation. On the original term it would run until April 2028 unless a judge ends it sooner. His side says he finished the MADD program and the DUI course in July 2026 and expects early termination and an expungement. Those steps are not on the docket.
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