NRL star Liam Knight goes Insta-official with 9 presenter Danika Mason

Liam Knight has posted a loved up picture of himself with Danika Mason who made headlines after calling off her wedding to Todd Liubinskas.

NRL player Liam Knight has gone Instagram-official with Channel 9 presenter Danika Mason after months of speculation.

The Bulldogs prop posted a picture of himself with Ms Mason to social media on Friday night with the caption: “My life is good”.

The shot was part of a series of photos which also showed Knight training and having dinner at home.

Ms Mason appears in another picture with Knight and a female friend.

Liam Knight has gone Instagram-official with Danika Mason.

The couple had previously been spotted on dates on Sydney.

Ms Mason’s new romance comes after she abruptly broke off her engagement to personal trainer Todd Liubinskas in October last year, just three weeks before the pair were due to tie the knot in NSW’s Hunter Valley.

The TV star was seen performing her sideline duties on Channel 9’s coverage of the 2023 NRL Finals without her wedding ring and showing no signs of her private turmoil in the final weeks of the season.

Danika Mason and Todd Liubinskas.

The couple called off their engagement three weeks before the wedding. Pictures: Instagram

Friends of Mason described her as being “beyond devastated” and “completely heartbroken” at the time.

Mason was a consummate professional throughout Channel 9’s broadcast of the NRL Grand Final alongside legends including Andrew Johns and Billy Slater, and was seen regularly smiling and laughing at comments made by the rest of the panel.

She was also seen starring on the network’s coverage of the Australian Open tennis tournament in January.

That came after reports that she’d been contacted by a third party and asked to hand her engagement ring back to ex-partner Liubinskas.

The couple had been in a relationship for over three years at the time of their break-up.

Liubinskas proposed to her in July 2021, sharing the moment on Instagram.

Mason has built a successful career at Channel 9, where she started as an intern in the newsroom in 2012 and rose to eventually host The Sunday Footy Show.

The Greystone Estate wedding venue where Ms Mason and Mr Liubinskas were due to get married.

Knight is an NRL journeyman having been granted a release from the Rabbitohs to join the Bulldogs late in the 2023 season.

He has played 81 NRL matches across short stints at the Sea Eagles, Raiders, Rabbitohs and now the Bulldogs.

Knight also hosts his own podcast with fellow front-rower Toby Rudolf, called Stuk in the Middle.

He has been open with his struggles with mental health and alcoholism in the past and revealed last year he was attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings twice a week.

“I had this victim mentality,” he said in an emotional interview with The Daily Telegraph.

“Poor me, poor me. It all just spiralled and I lost control of myself. I was angry on the world. Really depressed.

“I hit the party scene hard to get over it. Huge nights. Sometimes for two or three days. I was out of it. I’d go out wherever there was something going on.

“The prescription painkillers. Endone, Panadeine forte, drinking. All that stuff.

“I was a mess and in a really bad place trying to hide from everything.”