Eddie McGuire’s son Xander McGuire joins newsroom as sports reporter

While his famous dad was making headlines for an on-air spat with Neil Mitchell, Xander McGuire quietly took the next step in his budding media career.

Move over Eddie, there is a new McGuire making news.

In a week where Eddie McGuire was making headlines for an on-air spat with 3AW’s Neil Mitchell, his son Xander McGuire was busy taking the next step in his media career.

Following in his father’s large footsteps, Xander has been recruited as a casual sports reporter with Nine’s Melbourne news team.

His first report aired on June 17 and further reports appeared in the sports segment of the nightly bulletin last week. He had previously been a newsroom intern.

“After impressing the sports department during his recent internship, Xander has earned the opportunity to do some casual reporting. He’ll be an energetic and valuable addition to our newsroom,” News director Hugh Nailon said.

Eddie McGuire with son Xander at the 2016 Logies. Picture: Jason Edwards

“He was doing a bit of an internship and now they have got him working. He spent a couple of years on Neighbours, now he is on the road chasing stories,” proud dad Eddie said at the Logies.

Meanwhile, Eddie was front and centre at Robbie Williams’s lucrative, secret “sing and run” appearance in Melbourne last Friday night.

McGuire was the MC for the dinner for 800 at Crown marking the retirement of La Trobe Financial’s CEO Greg O’Neill — “a great Collingwood man” — for which Williams was flown into Melbourne from London for the private corporate show.

An insider familiar with the deal said securing Williams for a private concert was far from cheap, putting cost at “millions.”

Just what it would have cost to have Williams put on a private corporate gig is unknown, however his fee for the cancelled public concert which was to have coincided with the 2020 Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park was $1.94m.

That fee was revealed in court documents as part of a dispute been the cancelled show’s promoter and the Australian Grand Prix corporation which became public in April.