- Eddie McGuire
EDDIE McGuire has resigned as chief executive of the Nine Network. Nine said today McGuire would move to an increased presence on air and the provision of creative and programming services, with the change taking effect from June 30. McGuire said he left the CEO role "with a heavy heart", but hoped he would leave a legacy, with new programs to be shown in the next 12 months.
- Phil Gould
Phil "Gus" Gould (born 1958 in Sydney, New South Wales), is an Australian rugby league identity. Gould has a prominent role in Channel 9's coverage of rugby league, being a former co-host of "Boots N' All", appearing on "The Sunday Footy Show" and the "The Sunday Roast", and providing sometimes controversial opinions as part of the Nine match coverage commentary team. He is also employed by Sydney's Fairfax paper, "The Sun-Herald", …
- Brendan Fevola
Brendan 'Fev' Fevola (born January 20, 1981) is an Australian rules footballer, currently playing with the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League. He plays the position of full-forward and has apart from his sporadic footballing ability, is notable for his appearances on the Channel Nine's "The Footy Show" on Thursday nights during the season.
- Trevor Marmalade
Trevor Marmalade (born Jason van de Velde on April 20, 1962) is the stage name of a comedian from Melbourne, Australia. He appears on the AFL Footy Show behind the bar, and has done so since the show started in 1994. On the show he shows his support for the North Melbourne Football Club He was a member of the alternative comedy show "Punter to Punter" with Tracy Harvey, Tony Rickards as "Con Marasco", Slim Whittle and John Rothfield as "Dr Turf".
- Anh Do
Anh Do is a Vietnamese Australian actor and Stand-up comedian. He is perhaps best known for his leading role in the movie Footy Legends. He has also made appearances on television programs such as The Footy Show (NRL) performing stand up comedy. He is the brother of film director Khoa Do and has had acting roles in several of his films.
- Tony Jones
Anthony "Tony" Jones (born. July 10, 1961) is an Australian sports journalist. In his career, Jones has been most noted for his work with the Nine Network in Australia, as a sports reporter for National Nine News and host of Sunday's edition of "The Footy Show." One of the most famous incidents he has reported on in recent times was the Whispers in the Sky umpiring scandal in the Australian Football League.
- Cameron Ling
Cameron Ling (born February 27, 1981) is an Australian rules football player for the Geelong Football Club of the Australian Football League. Noted as a tagger, Ling is noted for his red hair (which he has frequently changed to blonde/white), and regularly makes appearances on television shows such as "The Footy Show" and "Before the Game".
- Andrew Voss
Andrew Voss is a commentator for the National Rugby League (NRL) coverage on the Nine Network in Australia. He hosts Channel Nine's Rugby League-related TV shows, Boots N' All and The Sunday Roast and also regularly appears on "The Footy Show". Andrew has covered various other sporting events, including the Sydney Olympic Games and the Melbourne Commonwealth Games. He also provides commentary for the Rugby League Video Game series.
- Mal Michael
Malcolm Roberto "Mal" Michael (born June 24, 1977 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea) is an Australian rules footballer who usually plays at full-back and currently plays for the Essendon Bombers in the Australian Football League. He is best known as a triple premiership full-back player with the Brisbane Lions.
- Mario Fenech
Mario Fenech (nicknamed "The Maltese Falcon") is a Maltese-Australian rugby league personality. He is a former player of the game and a regular guest on The Footy Show.
- Russell Robertson
Russell Robertson (born November 24, 1978) is an Australian rules footballer, and currently plays for the Melbourne Demons Football Club. Robertson was recruited from Burnie, Tasmania, after recruiters saw him in a home video featured on The Footy Show's Almost Football Legends segment. Robertson was drafted by the Demons and made his debut in the 1997 season. He has become known as one of the game's best high-flying forwards, …
- Anthony Minichiello
Anthony Minichiello (born 24 May 1980) is an Australian rugby league player of Italian descent who plays for the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League competition.
- Mark Bickley
Mark Anthony Bickley (born August 4, 1969) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Recruited from South Australian National Football League club South Adelaide, Bickley made his AFL debut in 1991 as an inaugural member of the Adelaide Crows squad. In 1997 he was appointed captain of the Adelaide Football Club, and captained the 1997 and 1998 premiership sides.
- Tony Woods
Tony Woods (born July 2, 1969) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League who played in the 1990 Premiership team Collingwood in the early 1990s, but then moved to Hawthorn in 1995. He finally became a valuable player in the 1996 season where he was a fine tagger, although in 1997 he was involved in more attacking roles in the midfield.
- Cameron Bruce
Cameron Bruce (born October 1, 1979) is a professional Australian rules football player, currently playing for the Melbourne Demons. At 21, and after one year in Melbourne's Junior Development Squad, he made his debut for Melbourne against Richmond in Round 1 of the 2000 season, kicking a goal with his first kick in AFL football. Bruce developed his game as a midfielder, but in recent years he has been used in attack, …
- Scott McLaren
Scott McLaren (born April 11, 1968) is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired 274 career games in the AFL. In 2003, Scott Mclaren became only the second umpire in the history of the AFL to umpire over 100 consecutive games, breaking Jack Elder's earlier record of 102 games later that season. As of 2006, McLaren still holds the record. In 2004 McLaren attracted immense controversy when, on "The Footy Show", …
- Natalie Gruzlewski
Natalie Gruzlewski is an Australian television presenter. Gruzlewski grew up on the Gold Coast and studied journalism at Griffith University after finishing school. She began her TV career on the Gold Coast as host of Prime Television's "Surf TV", a beach and surf conditions program. In 1999, Gruzlewski joined Channel Nine as weather presenter on the network's Gold Coast News bulletin.
- Luke McPharlin
Luke McPharlin (Born 1 December 1981) is an Australian rules football player for the Fremantle Football Club. He is 192 centimetres tall with a playing weight of 94 kilograms. A versatile player capable of playing in many positions, he now spends the majority of playing time in the back line, but has spent time at Full-Forward. He is also well known for his trademark "cappas, specky's" or high flying pack-marks. McPharlin was educated at Christ Church Grammar School, …
- Amanda Flynn
Amanda Flynn (born 1982, Penrith, New South Wales) is an Australian TV personality and model. Flynn is the wife of Penrith Panthers rugby league player Craig Gower. The two were married on January 28, 2006. She is a former cheerleader for the Panthers and was voted Big League Magazine's Cheergirl of the Year in 2000. Flynn appears prominently on the Channel Nine Footy Show and does modelling on the side.
- Dene Halatau
Dene La Halatau (born January 27 1983 in Invercargill, New Zealand) is a New Zealand rugby league player for the Wests Tigers in the National Rugby League competition. He has also represented the New Zealand national team on four separate occasions between 2004 and 2006. His position of choice is centre however he can also play in the second row and lock. An accomplished singer and guitarist, he often appears with the live studio band on the Nine Network's The Footy Show.
- Stephanie Brantz
Stephanie Brantz (born 1972 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian sports presenter currently on the Nine Network. Brantz, born in Queensland to Dutch parents, began a modelling career in 1985 while attending St Peters Lutheran College in Indooroopilly. In 2000, she moved to television presenting with SBS where she became a well known presenter of On the Ball in 2000, before filling in as host of Toyota World Sports and later co-hosting the show in 2006 with Les Murray.
- Garry Hocking
Garry "Buddha" Hocking (born October 8, 1968), is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. Hocking played 274 games for the Geelong Football Club in the AFL between 1987 and 2001. He was renowned as a tough midfielder. He represented Victoria on numerous occasions in the State of Origin series including 1998 and played in a losing Grand Final side. In the late 1990's Hocking was part of a promotion with cat-food company Whiskas, …
- Daniel Harford
Daniel Harford (born March 19, 1977) is a former Australian rules footballer. Originally from Parade College, Harford was a Teal Cup captain of Victoria as a youngster. His career started off beautifully and while at Hawthorn, where he made his debut in 1995, he made an early impression. He was a hard-at-the-ball midfielder or occasionally, small forward. He hit his peak in the late 1990s when he was almost dominant on the field, his aggression and toughness really shining.
- Andrew Startin
Andrew Startin (born ??) is an Australian performer, impersonator and television personality. Startin first came to prominence in 1997 as a result of a video tape of him impersonating Sam Newman being sent into "The AFL Footy Show" in an attempt to win a trip to London. He won, and the incredible accuracy of his voice, expressions and mannerisms shot him to fame as he appeared four more times that year on "The Footy Show", …
- Darren Goldspink
Darren Goldspink (born 12 September 1964) is a veteran Australian rules football umpire in the Australian Football League. Known for his flamboyance and frequent banter with players, in 2006 it was alleged that Goldspink had made derogatory remarks towards players Paul Chapman and Gary Ablett. He also told one player during a match that "I'm doing my job good" and expressed his personal opinions to Matthew Richardson about the importance of a shot for goal during a match, …
- Andrew Fyfe
Andrew Fyfe is an Australian cartoonist and satirist. He is best known as the cartoonist who for 17 years drew the on air live cartoons on Australia’s longest running variety show, "Hey Hey It's Saturday": he would instantly satirize situations that occurred live on air with lightning quick cartoons drawn with his “pen cam”. Andrew has drawn in front of celebrities including Sophia Loren, Tony Bennet, Samuel L. Jackson, Clint Eastwood, Leslie Nielsen, …
- Barry Round
Barry Round (born January 26, 1950) played for Footscray and South Melbourne/Sydney in the Victorian Football League between 1969 and 1985. Along the way, he played 328 games (135 for Footscray and 193 for South Melbourne/Sydney), won a Brownlow Medal in 1981 (tying with his former teammate Bernie Quinlan) and was the Swans' first captain during the Sydney era.
- Allen Jakovich
Allen Jakovich (born March 21, 1968) is an Australian rules football player. Jakovich was a prolific full forward and football journeyman. He is most notable for his 54 games and 208 goals for the Melbourne Demons in the Australian Football League, a controversial short-lived stint with the Western Bulldogs and being the brother of West Australian great Glen Jakovich.
- Paul Fenech
Paul Fenech is a film and television maker from Sydney, Australia. He first achieved prominence by winning third place in Sydney's annual Tropfest short film festival in 1995 for a biographical short entitled "Pizza Man" based on his experiences as a pizza delivery driver. Fenech was then able to secure a deal with Australian community broadcaster SBS to produce a sitcom based on his short film.
- James Freud
James Freud (born Colin McGlinchey on June 29, 1959) is an Australian rock singer. Beginning his music career in the late 1970s, Freud is best known for his early solo career, which spawned the hit "Modern Girl", and as one of two lead vocalists of the Australian rock group Models from 1982-88. In 1985, Two Freud-penned hits, "Barbados" and "Out of Mind, Out of Sight", took the Models to numbers #2 and #1 on the Australian top-ten charts respectively.
- Alicia von Sobbe-Grimberg
Alicia von Sobbe-Grimberg (born February 1, 1980 in Sydney, Australia) was a former cheerleader for the South Sydney Rabbitohs rugby league team. Alicia has had small roles on Australian TV Shows Heartbreak High, The Footy Show and even appeared as a contestant on Pop Stars.
- Julian Destoop
Julian Destoop (born December 1980 in Melbourne) is an Australian journalist. Destoop began his journalism career in 2002 with "Inside Football" magazine after completing a Bachelor of Arts at RMIT University. He joined the Nine Network for "National Nine News" 2004, as a sports reporter, covering such sports as Australian rules football and cricket. In November 2006 Destoop switched to Fox Sports News to jointly head its Melbourne bureau.
- Garry Lyon
He played Australian Rules football for Melbourne for thirteen years (1986-1999) and captained the Melbourne Demons for six years (1991-1997). He played 226 games and achieved All Australian selection three years in a row (1993-1995). He has three sons with ex-wife Melissa: Benjamin, Joshua and Thomas. His favorite film is "One Flew Over The Cuckoos' Nest"; his sporting idol is Muhammad Ali; and his favorite food is seafood.
- Sam Newman
John Newman was born on 22 December 1945 in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. In 1964, he graduated from Geelong Grammar and began playing professional football that same year. He played 300 games for Geelong Cats and is now recognised as a legend of the club and of the game. In 2002, he was inducted into the AFL Hall Of Fame and included as a member of the Geelong Team Of The Century. He has three sons with two of his former wives - Jordan (born 1980), Jack (born 1982) and Max (born 1998).
- Raymond Morris Madley
Ray Hadley was born on September 27th 1954. He grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney but spent a great deal of time with his grandparents in a small village called Eungai Rail on the mid north coast of New South Wales. Deciding at a relatively young age he wanted to pursue a career in sports broadcasting, Ray says he drew strange looks from family and friends whenever he mentioned his ambitions. Ray completed his Higher School Certificate in 1972 and tried unsuccessfully to find...
- Andrew Gary Johns
Newcastle Knights Captain. Currently the best Rugby League Football player in the world and has Captained New South Wales and Australia and has won a record 3 Dally M awards as the sport best and fairest. Brother of Matthew Johns
- Daniel Giansiracusa
Made his Australian Football League debut for the Western Bulldogs in 2001 after being selected by the club in the second round of the 1999 national draft.
- Shane Crawford
Created the comedy soap The House of Bulger, which airs on The Footy Show. Bulger developed a cult following with Shane's character Hank Bulger becoming as popular as Shane himself.
- Eddie McGuire
Eddie McGuire's career began when he was 14, working as an junior AFL statistician for the Melbourne Herald Sun. His first television work began as a sport journalist at Network Ten, and later sport presenter for Eye Witness News. In February 1994, Eddie joined Channel Nine as a sports commentator and was appointed as host for a new sports program "The Footy Show" (1994), which was trialling for four weeks. Initially, "The Footy Show" (1994) was meant to be a serious...
- Tim Watson
Father of Jobe Watson, who also played for Essendon. Played over 300 games for Australian Football League club Essendon from 1977 to 1994.