Former NRL TV presenter Tiffany Salmond has accused Fox Sports of leaking false stories about her – including one claiming she gatecrashed a work party the pay TV giant held last year.
Salmond has been vocal about her inability to find TV work since being dumped from her role reporting on New Zealand NRL games for Fox Sports, RNZ and Sky.
She recently claimed she’s been unsuccessful in her job search partly because rugby league TV journalism is a ‘boys’ club’ in which ‘the men are allowed to be edgy, loud, have huge personalities and take up space but women have to toe the line of being attractive, but not too sexy’.
On Thursday, Salmond took to Instagram to air her allegations against Fox.
‘I’ve now been told Fox are allegedly trying to leak false stories to journalists about me,’ she wrote.
‘Apparently one of the stories they’re pushing is that I gatecrashed a work party they held at a hotel last year.
Former TV presenter Tiffany Salmond (pictured) has claimed Fox Sports is leaking false stories about her to journalists
The former footy sideline eye claims one of the alleged stories is about her gatecrashing Fox’s end-of-year work party in 2024
‘Even though I’d already booked to stay at that hotel two months earlier – well before they’d even picked the venue.
‘Imagine thinking I booked a literal hotel just to gatecrash an end of year work party for two free glasses of champagne.
‘If anything, I wish I hadn’t bumped into them in the lobby either.’
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Foxtel for comment.
Salmond has also recently spoken out about the scandal over her late-night phone call to Fox Sports reporter Jake Duke, who was dumped by his Channel Seven star girlfriend Grace Fitzgibbon when the Daily Mail exclusively broke the story.
She accused Duke of misleading her about his relationship status shortly before the call took place.
A source close to the couple told Daily Mail Australia the call came to Duke, 30, ‘in the wee hours’, prompting a ‘devastated and heartbroken’ Fitzgibbon, 32, to end the three-year-long relationship and leave the couple’s apartment in Freshwater, on Sydney’s northern beaches.
‘The phone call situation that was reported wasn’t the reason I was removed. But once I started gaining visibility and attention, it felt like that moment became an easy narrative to use against me – despite senior staff being completely unfazed by it when it happened,’ Salmond told the Sydney Morning Herald.
Pictured: The allegations Salmond made on Instagram
Salmond has also claimed TV footy reporting is a boys’ club in which women aren’t allowed to be ‘too sexy’
‘I want to make it very clear: it was an innocent phone call I made all the way from New Zealand, to a colleague I considered a friend.
‘He had also made it very clear to me that he was single, so I saw no issue in calling him for a chat while I was on my way home from a night out.
‘Unfortunately, I had obviously been misled, and I copped the backlash publicly for something I was a victim in, too.
‘I was left to carry the full weight of the fallout alone.’
Daily Mail Australia does not suggest Duke was misleading Salmond, only that Salmond has made the accusation.
Jake Duke has been contacted for comment.
Salmond has repeatedly posted comments from footy fans who want to see her return to the screen, and has accused broadcasters of failing to give her a fair go despite what she sees as her highly successful time on screen.
‘I wasn’t let go because I failed. I was cut off while thriving, connecting, performing and being embraced by the audience,’ she said.
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