Alcott’s love affair adds intrigue to Footy Show’s demise
LAST week’s story about Paralympian Dylan Alcott’s new love affair with a Melbourne sexologist might not have been the final nail in the coffin for the AFL edition of The Footy Show, but the timing certainly proved too close for comfort.
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LAST week’s story about Paralympian Dylan Alcott’s new love affair with a Melbourne sexologist might not have been the final nail in the coffin for the AFL edition of The Footy Show, but the timing certainly proved too close for comfort.
Alcott and his co-panellists on the program — Anthony “Lehmo” Lehmann, Neroli Meadows, Brendan Fevola and Matthew Lloyd — were notified their show had been cancelled on Thursday night at the conclusion of the eighth episode of the recently revamped program,
just four days after we revealed Alcott has a new love interest.
Alcott is nine weeks into a relationship with Chantelle Otten who, in the week before hooking up with Alcott, separated from her husband.
The couple met at a book signing two weeks before Alcott started on The Footy Show.
On Friday, Nine said the decision to axe the program was made after the show hit a ratings low of 53,000 in Melbourne two Thursdays ago.
News of Alcott’s new romance — coming after The Footy Show was previously sunk in controversy after it emerged in 2016 that former panellist Garry Lyon was having an affair with his colleague Billy Brownless’s wife, Nicky — is unlikely to have helped.
Lyon, now on Fox Sports, said on Friday it was Nine’s decision to rein in controversially sexist commentator Sam Newman that sounded the death knell on the earlier format of the show — a statement that surely proves why the program has had its day and why Lyon could still be making producers nervous.
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