Football fans are furious after the star of Fallen Ben Cousins won a coveted job with Channel Seven in Perth before the AFL 2025 season.
He then arises that Cousins, 46, continues to rebuild his life following a drug addiction who ruined his sports career and also saw the decorated midfielder imprisoned several times for drug offenses, harass and violate an order for the prohibition of violence withdrawn by a former partner.
Cousins will join the AFLW Great Daisy Pearce, its former teammate from the West Coast Mark Lecras and the former Fremenant Shaun McManus skipper on the calls for home matches this season involving the two WA clubs.
The first winner of Premières in 2006 took a full -time position at 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.
But it seems that many are not impressed in the history of the redemption of cousins, pointing towards its doubtful past, which includes offenses of domestic violence, drugs and harassment.
Some football fans are furious after Ben Cousins (photo, left) won a coveted job with Channel seven in Perth before the AFL 2025 season
Cousins won a post as Prime Minister in 2006 (photo) – but a drug addiction then ruined his sports career and also saw the Champion of the Eagles midfielder on the west coast imprisoned several times
Cousins will join AFLW GREAT DAISY PEARCE (photo), his former teammate on the west coast Mark Lecras and the former Skipper of the Fremenant Shaun McManus on home matches this season involving the two clubs of Wa
“Once again, screaming in a vacuum on Australia-Western and Channel 7 giving Ben Cousins Air Time,” published one in response to development.
“I am absolutely for someone who turns his life, but for a known DV offender … I think it is for the best that they make it public eyes.
A second said: “If you are found guilty of harassment, I don’t want you to show me about wandering hand passes.”
A third weighed with: “I have been on this case for some time. And he is also ugly at his work.
Cousins played 238 games and started 205 goals for the west coast between 1996 and 2007, and also won the Brownlow medal in 2005.
The Captain of Eagles Unique was suspended by the club in March 2007 – only six months after the triumph of the grand final against Sydney – to allegedly of drug addiction 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 finally decided enough.
This enraged football fan underlined the past of Ben Cousins, which includes offenses of domestic violence
Another published on X ‘If you are found guilty of harassment, I don’t want you to talk about wandering hand passes’
A third cousins labeled a “washed drug addict” and estimated that the role should go to someone who “merit to merit”
A supporter created cousins for changing his life, stressing that he “worked so hard to beat your outbuildings”
He now deeply regrets the time 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.