8:42AM Jess McGuire | After a controversy filled year, one of the highlights of which being Sam Newman remarking on air that some women were
worthy of coming on (… the show, you perverts! Worthy of
coming on the show!), it seems the folks at Channel Nine have examined the program thoroughly, and after much thought they’ve located the show’s weak spot – and decided to give Trevor Marmalade the boot. Wait, what?
Footy Show funnyman Trevor Marmalade has been axed by Channel 9. Marmalade leaves after 15 years with the high-rating show. The shock departure comes as Nine moves to freshen up AFL version of The Footy Show after another turbulent year.
What follows next in the Herald Sun article are four succinct but dramatic lines which almost made me burst into tears, and I don’t even care about The Footy Show.
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