Former sports journalist Josh Massoud spotted driving ice cream van
FIVE months after resigning from Channel 7 over a controversial argument with a junior reporter, former NRL journalist Josh Massoud has been sprung working in a new job. SEE THE VIDEO.
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DISGRACED former sports journalist Josh Massoud has been spotted driving an ice cream van, five months after resigning from Channel 7.
The footage of Massoud driving the van was captured by former NRL player Darcy Lussick who shared the video to Twitter and Instagram, before deleting it.
In the video, Lussick can be heard taunting the former sports journalist saying: “Josh, what are you doing man … hey, ice cream man … exclusive.”
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Massoud can be heard defending himself saying “mate, everyone knows.”
Earlier this year, Massoud was suspended from the Seven Network after he reportedly threatened to “slit” a 22-year-old colleague’s neck and “s*** down” it after the cadet breached an embargo on one of Massoud’s stories.
The story related to former NRL player Todd Carney’s plans to transfer back to a Sydney club to be closer to his ailing mother.
The young reporter, who it’s believed is an employee of Prime’s regional Queensland network, is understood to have spotted the story on an early Seven news rundown and unwittingly published it to his social media account ahead of the 6pm news bulletin, breaking the embargo.
Massoud is said to have reduced the man to tears and also abused a Sydney-based producer over the same incident.
The former rugby league expert was stood down in May and hired lawyer John Laxon who has represented some of the highest-profile media operatives, including Channel 9’s 60 Minutes’ producer Stephen Rice, who was sacked by Nine for his part in the program’s Beirut child snatching scandal.
Massoud worked as a sports journalist at The Daily Telegraph before he was hired by Channel 7.