The Footy Show host Eddie McGuire opens up on bromance with Sam Newman

RESURGENT Footy Show host Eddie McGuire has shed light on his decades-long bromance with Sam Newman, saying the duo is like an “old married couple’’.

Eddie McGuire says he and Sam Newman have genuine love for each other. Picture: Alex Coppel.

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RESURGENT Footy Show host Eddie McGuire has spoken of his decades-long bromance with professional headline-hunter Sam Newman, describing their relationship as being like an “old married couple”.

“Sam and I are close friends and we have a genuine love and affection for each other,” McGuire said today.

“We are different ages, we are from different political spectrums, we have different religious backgrounds, we are completely different and yet at the same time, in step with each other.

“If I have missed anything in my career I have missed working with Sam.”

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Eddie McGuire and Sam Newman clowning around in 1995.

The odd pairing cosying up in earlier days of The Footy Show.

He said he was delighted to be renewing his on screen association with Newman on The Footy Show.

“It was not unusual in the olden days for Sam and I to be having very firm and frank discussions in the carpark after a Footy Show at two o’clock in the morning,” he said.

“I remember one time there was a letter left under my windscreen from him and a return phone call early the next day.

“But this is a show of passion. Sam and I, our relationship, we can finish each other’s sentences. I can look at him and see what he is thinking.

“It is a passionate relationship, not unlike a marriage, in that we are ultimately trying to get to the same position, but we might come at it from different directions at times and we can have full and frank discussions.”

Told of McGuire’s comments, Newman said: “I have been married a few times but I don’t know what it is like to be an old married couple because all of them didn’t last long enough to put me in that age bracket of being old married. It means that we get on all right.”

The new-look Footy Show’s hosts Rebecca Maddern, Eddie McGuire and Sam Newman. Picture: Alex Coppel.

Meanwhile, deposed Footy Show host Craig Hutchison marked the end of his brief tenure as the program’s anchor with drinks and a bite to eat with a small group of friends at new Prahran hotspot Neptune on Friday night.

Among those consoling Hutchison was Stephanie Edwards, the former fiancee of footy great Wayne Carey.

The pair are old mates who, despite rumours, have never dated.

It wasn’t a long night as Hutchison had to be in Lilydale early today for his radio show Off The Bench before heading to Sydney to host a corporate box at the footy.

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