Sam Newman gets cancelled after furious backlash

Former footy star Sam Newman has been hit by cancel culture after a South Australian pub’s event sparked an angry backlash.

Cancel culture got Sam Newman.

An event featuring the controversial former footy star at a South Australian pub has reportedly been canned after an angry backlash from locals.

The ex-Geelong ruckman turned media personality was supposed to take part in “An Evening With Sam Newman” at the Lady Bay Hotel in Normanville later this month but now has a hole in his schedule.

The Advertiser reports the pub changed its mind about the event after customers complained.

The venue’s manager Steve Finlayson told the Sunday Mail: “We just don’t like to be controversial, so when we started to get this sort of feedback, we made the decision to cancel the show.

“We’ve been booking cover bands which have been really well received, so I think we’ll be sticking to musicians.”

Sam Newman is never out of the spotlight for long.

Newman has never been far from the headlines and late last year took aim at a “woke society” he says ended his TV career last year.

The 75-year-old left The Footy Show in 2018, while Eddie McGuire also departed and the iconic program was revamped with an entirely new line-up. However, it was killed off completely midway through 2019 as ratings plummeted.

Newman opened up last year about how changes in society had essentially left his position on the program obsolete.

“From my point of view it had got away completely from what it’s main aim was in the first place,’’ Newman told the Herald Sun’s SACKED podcast.

“Even though the changing requirements and conditions of a woke society, of an enlightened world … and I’m not saying anything I haven’t said publicly to them so I’m not airing any dirty linen at all … but they threw the baby out with the bath water and I became marginalised to the fact that I wasn’t of use to them at all because the paradigm of the show had changed dramatically and it wasn’t suited to what I used to do.”

Newman infamously wore blackface for a Footy Show skit about ex-Saint Kilda player Nicky Winmar and recently called American president Joe Biden “mentally retarded” on Twitter.