- West Coast Great recently appeared on Dancing with the stars
- He has now won another position on television
Ben Cousins won another television position as he continues to change his life after his drug addiction destroyed his incredible football career.
The Brownlow medalist and Première winner will now be presented on the live cover of Channel Seven of football matches this year in a big leap forward for his media career.
Cousins will join the AFLW Great Daisy Pearce, his former teammate of the Eagles Mark Lecras and the Skipper of the former Dockers Shaun McManus on the calls for the Matches at the home matches of Fremantle and the west coast this season.
The 46-year-old man hung a full-time position on the Breakfast program of the Perth Mix94.5 radio station last month, following his role on Seven’s Dancing With The Stars last year.
This came after making his debut as a presenter of seven news in Perth in June 2023, where he impressed the station’s bosses.
“You can see why Cousins was a football star. He of course has natural capacities, but his work ethics is incredibly impressive, ” said director of seven new Ray Kuka.
Ben Cousins (photo of the medal of the Brownlow 2024 medal) made a big leap forward in his television career
The West Coast Eagles Great (photo of the competition on the dance with the stars) will now comment on the AFL games for Channel Seven
“His ability to concentrate, apply and strive for the best is credit for him.
“Of course, it doesn’t hurt the camera to love it.”
Cousins will have a wealth of football experience to call when he starts to comment on the matches, starting with the West Coast match against the Gold Coast on March 16.
The former bad boy footy is considered one of the big ones of all the games of the play despite his problems out of the field, winning the Brownlow 2005 medal as the best AFL player and the fairest, and playing a leading role in the victory of the Eagles in 2006.
Cousins played 238 games and started 205 goals for the west coast between 1996 and 2007.
The former midfielder directed the Eagles from 2001 to 2005, guaranteeing the price of the best and the fairest of the club of four on these five seasons.
He was suspended by the club in March 2007 – only six months after the triumph of the grand final on Sydney – for alleged toxicomania and dismissed six months later after being arrested for possession of drugs and refusing to submit to a blood test.
He returned to AFL in 2009 with Richmond, before retiring at the end of the 2010 season.
Cousins was imprisoned six times in 13 years and spent seven months behind bars in 2020, before he apparently decided that it was sufficient.
The new role continues the return of cousins after his dependence problems helped end his football career and land in prison
He said that he only regretted how long it took to clean himself.
“I want him to have had to take so much time and had to take his course as he did,” he revealed at the helm before in April of last year.
“But yes, it’s good to work and work, go back real and, you know, just connected with friends, family and even at community level, you know.
“Life has never been better, to be honest.
