by Brianna Morris-Grant & Alexandria Utting & Andrew Potts
8th Feb 2021 7:04 AM
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A Victorian man fell to his death from a 40th-storey Gold Coast hotel balcony after losing his footing trying to clean damage from a popped champagne cork.
The 36-year-old man was staying at the Hilton Surfers Paradise with family and friends when he tragically died from the plunge into the midst of a packed party strip about 11pm Friday.
It is understood the group were on holiday from Victoria.
The man had popped a bottle of champagne moments before his death and the cork had flown up and damaged the ceiling, the