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10:53AM Jess McGuire | Last night on the way home from a Comedy Festival preview show (more about that later), we asked the cabbie how the Richmond/Carlton game had gone. “Carlton flogged ‘em”, he informed us. Then we asked how new Tigers recruit Ben Cousins had performed. “Ah, he busted his hammy…” The driver paused dramatically, and we hung on his every word. “… he’s on ice for six weeks!”
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Ben Cousins Injured!
10:53AM Jess McGuire | Last night on the way home from a Comedy Festival preview show (more about that later), we asked the cabbie how the Richmond/Carlton game had gone. “Carlton flogged ‘em”, he informed us. Then we asked how new Tigers recruit Ben Cousins had performed. “Ah, he busted his hammy…” The driver paused dramatically, and we hung on his every word. “… he’s on ice for six weeks!”
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12:28PM Jess McGuire | West Coast bad boy turned Richmond saviour Ben Cousins can add radio star to his resume, as he’s just been hired by DMG Radio to appear on Nova 100 in Melbourne’s breakfast show every Monday morning to talk about the footy.
From the MediaWeek newsletter:
Melbourne’s Nova 100 today announced that Ben Cousins, one of the AFL’s most high profile players, will join Hughesy and Kate on Monday mornings as football expert for the 20 09 AFL season. Ben will recap the weekend’s matches; discuss any topical issues that arise during these games or in training and talk about life in Melbourne.
No big Sunday nights then, Ben! Gotta be fresh as a daisy for the AM! Here’s what Hughesy and Kate Langbroek have to say about this new addition to their broadcasting family. More »
Ben Cousins Will Be Joining Hughesy & Kate On Nova!
12:28PM Jess McGuire | West Coast bad boy turned Richmond saviour Ben Cousins can add radio star to his resume, as he’s just been hired by DMG Radio to appear on Nova 100 in Melbourne’s breakfast show every Monday morning to talk about the footy.
From the MediaWeek newsletter:
Melbourne’s Nova 100 today announced that Ben Cousins, one of the AFL’s most high profile players, will join Hughesy and Kate on Monday mornings as football expert for the 20 09 AFL season. Ben will recap the weekend’s matches; discuss any topical issues that arise during these games or in training and talk about life in Melbourne.
No big Sunday nights then, Ben! Gotta be fresh as a daisy for the AM! Here’s what Hughesy and Kate Langbroek have to say about this new addition to their broadcasting family. More »
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12:01PM Jess McGuire | Obviously there’s a bit of jesting involved with the headline, because -
a) everyone knows Ben Cousins is clean now and has probably deleted all his good drug contacts’ details from his phone, and
b) THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GOOD DRUGS! THEY WILL ROT YOUR BRAINS, CHILDREN!
But the fact that he’s in the running for Cleo’s Bachelor Of The Year competition is indeed true.
Cleo editor Sarah Oakes said Cousins was popular with the magazine’s readers.
“He’s one of those people that generated a lot of discussion about whether he is or isn’t the kind of eligible bachelor that an Australian woman would be interested in dating,” Oakes said. “It’s good to have those (who) polarise and those people that create some discussion.”
And who else are the ladies at Cleo contemplating appointing Bachelor Of The Year? More »
Ben Cousins Is Australia’s Finest Bachelor? Well, He’d Probably Know Where To Score Good Drugs…
12:01PM Jess McGuire | Obviously there’s a bit of jesting involved with the headline, because -
a) everyone knows Ben Cousins is clean now and has probably deleted all his good drug contacts’ details from his phone, and
b) THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GOOD DRUGS! THEY WILL ROT YOUR BRAINS, CHILDREN!
But the fact that he’s in the running for Cleo’s Bachelor Of The Year competition is indeed true.
Cleo editor Sarah Oakes said Cousins was popular with the magazine’s readers.
“He’s one of those people that generated a lot of discussion about whether he is or isn’t the kind of eligible bachelor that an Australian woman would be interested in dating,” Oakes said. “It’s good to have those (who) polarise and those people that create some discussion.”
And who else are the ladies at Cleo contemplating appointing Bachelor Of The Year? More » Ben Cousins Has A Home!
9:41AM Jess McGuire | Thank the lord, for reformed bad boy footballer Ben Cousins has finally found himself a new footy team. Yesterday die-hard Richmond Tigers supporters told the Herald Sun that if their club didn’t pick the former West Coast dynamo it’d be “the worst Christmas present ever”, so it is grand news indeed that Christmas has been saved for the yellow and black massive!
Richmond has taken Ben Cousins with their sole pick in the AFL’s pre-season draft, allowing the recovering drug addict a final chance to resurrect his career at the elite level.
After days of uncertainty, the Tigers confirmed their selection a short time ago, ending a painful roller-coaster for the 30-year-old who was forced to spend 12 months on the sidelines for bringing the game into disrepute.
And Cousins’ new team can thank the arrival of their latest recruit for a huge boost in membership: More »
Now We Ain’t Sayin’ Ben Cousins Is A Golddigger…
1:23PM Clem Bastow | One would think that, in this notoriety-disguised-as-genuine-fame days we live in, Ben Cousins would be high at the top of any PR lackey’s guest list. After all, if Corey can get an agent and public appearance royalties, surely Mr ‘Such Is Life’ could at least expect a few free drinks and a goodie bag?
Well, it appears we may have the freebie industry all wrong, as Cousins only made it into MTV Australia’s Good Vibrations/Kanye West afterparty thanks to the gift of his gab.
Management from the music channel MTV – the key media sponsors of the festival – were stunned when the notorious party boy talked his way past security manning the entry and into the exclusive, invitation-only party in the VIP tent.
While celebs and rockers including Erika Heynatz, Alex Dimitriades, Cypress Hill and N’fa mingled in the VIP party, Cousins kept a low profile after crashing the event with a mate around 4pm.
“He was never invited to our party but obviously used his name to get in,” an MTV spokeswoman said yesterday.
“It created a real buzz in the room because he’s such a well-known party boy – everyone was saying ‘did you see Ben Cousins?”‘
Now, correct us if we’re wrong, but if MTV could appreciate the “buzz” Cousins caused once he entered the party, they would’ve thought to invite him in the first place?
Or maybe this is ALL just some sort of elaborate, Matrix-esque effort to make us think that the world of guest lists and PR and “don’t you know who I am” still exists and that fame is actually discerning, when we know that the reality is that any nonentity who shows their boobs on Big Brother can be the subject of an ‘In Depth’ profiling just years later. More » 
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2:04PM Jess McGuire | This recently arrived in our inbox (thanks, SJX!) with the subject title “We know where [REDACTED] learnt his craft”.
As you were. More »
Ben Cousins Wishes The Media Many Happy Returns
12:00PM Clem Bastow | At this time of the year, when we can best expect a few crumbs from the dinner table that is show business, there are a few people we can rely on to keep us amused and up to date.
Based on recent events, we can confirm that those people are Britney Spears, Mischa Barton, and… Ben Cousins!
There’s nothing much to report in the disgraced Weagle’s corner, other than that he’s been seeing family for Christmas, taking some ski lessons, and:
The former AFL star was in fine form at Perth’s domestic airport recently, telling a photographer who wished him Happy Christmas: “Yeah, I hope you get run over by a f…ing car.”
Merry Christmas, Ben! God bless us, every one!
We’re very glad that Ben is taking his mantle as “AFL bad boy” seriously. Might we suggest for your next trick an involvement in the Heaven’s Gate cult, or perhaps the keeping of wild penguins in your fridge. More »
Escape From LA III: Missing Cousins
9:59AM Clem Bastow | Troubled former Weagle Ben Cousins has apparently disappeared in LA, where he is meant to be continuing his rehabilitation program.
The footy champ is attempting to overcome his addiction to both cocaine and methamphetamine with a stay at the Summit Centre, but despite flying to the City of Angels, he has apparently scarpered before checking in.
Sources close to the Summit Centre in Malibu told The Australian yesterday the 29-year-old failed to check in, as scheduled, on Monday. They say they are worried for his safety.
“No one has any idea where he is,” said a person with knowledge of the situation. “He’s got everyone freaking out because LA’s not a good place to be out doing what he may be doing.
“I just hope nothing bad happens to him.”
Apparently Cousins was picked up at the airport by two “mystery blonde women” before being spirited away.
Seriously, is there something in the water over in WA? Wha’ happen? We remember a time when the Weagles could do no wrong, now it’s like an episode of Law & Order and all we can think of is this. More » 