NRL 2025: Why global music sensation FISHER was rubbing shoulders with James Tedesco and Mitchell Moses

It’s the most unlikely encounter of the NRL pre-season. Two of the games biggest stars rubbing shoulders with a global music sensation. Now James Tedesco reveals how they ended up in a casino infinity pool together.

It’s the Instagram friendship that led to one of the most unlikely encounters of the NRL pre-season.

A run in that not even Melbourne and Queensland Origin star Cameron Munster, the game’s most infamous party animal, could pull off.

Sydney Roosters skipper James Tedesco has revealed how he and his great mate, Parramatta captain Mitchell Moses, came to rub shoulders with global sensation and one of the world’s best house DJ’s, FISHER (Paul Fisher) in a high-rise infinity pool.

“I have talked to FISHER on Instagram a few times but never met him in person,” Tedesco said.

“Me and Mitch were staying at the Crown (Casino) together and we saw FISHER at breaky, so I stopped and chatted to him for 15 minutes.

“He had his little girl there, I had my little girl. We were just talking about footy and different things and I told him I was going down to the pool and he said he was too with his little girl.”

James Tedesco, Paul Fisher and Mitchell Moses with their daughters. Picture: Instagram

FISHER’s global popularity has exploded in recent years and the Australian music sensation now has over three million followers across Instagram and TikTok.

He made world wide headlines doing a ‘shoey’ at last year’s LIV golf tournament, which he has been booked to headline again this year this weekend.

While Tedesco and Moses are deep into Round 1 preparations and won’t get the chance to travel to Adelaide, the close mates are hoping to catch FISHER in concert during Magic Round in May.

“He loves to chat, it was just nice to speak to someone like that, with the life he lives, it’s unbelievable. It’s cool to make friends with him.

“He’s playing in Gold Coast I think after Magic Round so hopefully we can get tickets to that which would be pretty cool.”

FISHER in Orlando performing for thousands of fans during an American tour.

Tedesco’s A-list encounter would have left Storm larrikin Munster green with envy.

In 2020, Munster convinced around 15 of his Queensland teammates to travel to Byron Bay to celebrate the Maroons’ Origin series win, promising that he could get FISHER to provide the entertainment only to be snubbed for AFL party boy Dustin Martin and his grand final celebrations for Richmond.

“I was calling all hours of the morning, all hours of the night, trying to get him (to Byron). I was pretty filthy … but it’s all right, he said he owes me one,” Munster joked at the time.

Tedesco and Moses have been close friends since their junior playing days at the Wests Tigers but their well publicised exit at Concord in 2017 has only made their friendship stronger, and now even more so as new fathers.

But fatherhood has seen the skippers swap boys’ trips to Las Vegas for staycations with their partners and young daughters – like their pre-season getaway together at Sydney’s Crown Casino.

Roosters captain James Tedesco and Eels skipper Mitch Moses have been close friends since their junior playing days at the Wests Tigers. Picture: Rohan Kelly

“I wish that pool was at my house. You know what? Teddy probably has a pool similar to that, he’s on a bomb at the Roosters,” Moses laughed.

“We make sure to catch up when we can.

“But to get to spend time with someone like FISHER, it was a pretty good day. He just wanted to be around the pool and spin yarns, and he’s got some pretty good stories to tell.”

Moses told this masthead he will also be carving out time during the season to catch-up with Clint Gutherson, the man he replaced as Parramatta captain.

The Blues halfback admitted seeing Gutherson, who will skipper the Dragons alongside Damien Cook in 2025, in the famous Red V for the first time at the NRL’s season launch earlier this week would take some getting used to.

“It’s a bit different, a bit weird to be honest seeing him (in a Dragons jersey),” Moses said.

“He’s one of my best mates too and we played together for eight years.

“I guess the Dragons is a fresh start for him and he must be doing something right if he was captain so quickly.

“It’ll be interesting to see how we go when we verse each other for the first time.”

Originally published as NRL 2025: Why global music sensation FISHER was rubbing shoulders with James Tedesco and Mitchell Moses