Matthew Johns Is Hot Television Property
It’s been at least six months since Matthew Johns made headlines after he admitted to participating in group sex with a nineteen year old girl (to help the team bond, maaaate!) so it makes sense that the whole thing is now considered water under the bridge.
Channel Ten and Channel Seven are prepared to put the whole ugly incident behind them, and Matthew’s career will probably prosper once again. Everybody wins! Except perhaps all the girls over the years who found themselves drunk and naked and vulnerable and faced with a long line of large no-necked footballers who were more than happy to treat them like a piece of meat for a few unstatisfying (but team building) minutes!
Matthew Johns has become the hottest property in television with Network Ten joining Channel Seven in a desperate race to sign him to front an NRL show. The Sunday Telegraph has learnt Ten bosses David Mott and Nick Falloon approached Johns late last week to front a league-based program and to have a light entertainment role with the station.
Seven is also vying for Johns’ signature to be the marquee star of its proposed NRL show. It is now almost certain Johns will return to television next year in direct opposition to former Channel Nine powerhouse The Footy Show, of which he was an integral member for the past five years.
Apparently encouraged by the blackface success of Hey Hey It’s Wednesday, Channel Ten are now keen to create a variety show of their very own. And with a reformed Matthew Johns on board, it will surely become essential viewing for the whole family. Thanks, Australian television networks! You’ve done it again! Don’t ever think too hard when it comes to create new television programs for the nation – just rehash old formulas and hire the same old familiar faces… even if said familiar faces most recently made headlines because of morally reprehensible behaviour!
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Couldn’t agree more. It was only ever a matter of time before Johns was back on-air. Network Nine is probably a little too egg-faced to take him back. Ten will need to work hard to knock off Hey Hey (in any format).
It doesn’t matter in this country whether it’s pay or Free to Air – it is ALL a regurgitation of the same stuff, week in and week out!
Dear Commercial Television Networks:
Please, think a little harder. Please.
Waiting in vain,
mez
I’m sorry, but when did sex become “morally reprehensible behaviour”???
Be it group or alone, still just sex which last time i checked was perfectly normal and natural.
You’re an idiot
Fuck the patriarchy. Misogynist arseholes. That’s all.
What are these “Television Networks” you speak of?
@Les – except that it wasn’t sex. She didn’t consent to sexual activity with a dozen guys. Sexual activity – consent = rape. And rape, last time I checked, was “morally reprehensible behaviour”. Unless you’re a celebrity, of course /sarcasm/
Jess, please stop encouraging this rape apologia by using phrases like “group sex” to describe rape.
I’m with you Les. Johns has become the scapegoat, simply by virtue of his high profile while the rest of the sharks players involved are still running around reputations and livelihoods intact.
Having said that, the fact that two tv networks are courting him for some huge comedy role simply highlights the dearth of talent and imagination in the local industry.
Matthew Johns may be the cream of a dubious crop of ex-footballers chancing their arm at boofhead satire, but comparisons to Paul Hogan and other PROFESSIONAL entertainers of yesteryear are fanciful