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Latest Hitz of Lisa and the Fitz

The last couple of years have not been kind to the FitzSimons/Wilkinson clan, Australia’s first family of fail.

Pete receives his Uber swag
Pete receives his Uber swag

Lovely Lisa the lockdown lady copped widespread mockery after it was revealed that television dialogue described in her memoir only occurred inside Lisa’s head.

Then Wilkinson’s enormous ego almost derailed a high-profile court case. Way to go, girl!

As for hubby Peter, he remains resistant to standard punctuation conventions, is still getting into fights with people of colour and has now been busted for Arab investment hypocrisy by (gasp!) a common rugby league player:

Rugby league star Christian Welch has taken a brutal swipe at Peter FitzSimons for his hypocritical stance on Australian golfer Cam Smith signing with Saudi-backed LIV Golf tour. 

Smith's shift to the breakaway golf league is reportedly earning him $140 million – something the former Wallaby, author and husband of TV host Lisa Wilkinson slammed as “blood money” in a recent column. 

But the Melbourne Storm prop, who has a Bachelor of Commerce and is completing his MBA, pointed out that FitzSimons recently appeared in an advertising campaign for the food delivery app Uber Eats, which Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is a major investor in.

“It's okay for you to profit (albeit indirectly) from the Saudi investment fund but not a golfer?” Welch shared on Twitter.

“Same money funding LIV invested in Uber, Boeing & Starbucks. Are you complicit when you get a ride home or a cappuccino? How far does it go? I don't recall the same outrage at those companies, but dare a golfer accept the cash on offer.”

Owned.

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