{"id":113404,"date":"2025-09-02T14:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/113404\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:55:08","slug":"afl-boss-backs-snoop-dogg-for-final-despite-lgbtq-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/113404\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL boss backs Snoop Dogg for final despite LGBTQ+ comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rapper\t\t\t<\/p>\n

AFL boss Andrew Dillon has said Snoop Dogg will do a \u201cgreat job\u201d as the headline act for the grand final. (Prince Williams\/FilmMagic\/ Morgan Hancock\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The boss of Australian rules football has backed Snoop Dogg ahead of the rapper\u2019s performance at the grand final.<\/p>\n

Last month, Dogg faced backlash<\/a> for saying that the inclusion of a queer character in Disney\u2019s 2022 film Lightyear<\/a> left him \u201cscared\u201d to take his grandchildren to the cinema. He has not reacted to the criticism, according to his representatives,<\/a> despite a viral comment at first believed to have been written by the star.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And now Australian Football League (AFL) chief executive Andrew Dillon has backed the rapper, saying he would do a \u201cgreat job\u201d as the headline act for the grand final.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018It will be an amazing spectacle\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I\u2019m looking forward to over the next four weeks is the most important nine games of the year,\u201d Dillon said<\/a> on Monday (1 September). \u201cThen we\u2019ll get to the last Saturday in September and we\u2019ll have the two best teams there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe grand final entertainment will add to what will be an amazing spectacle\u2026 it will be at a level that we haven\u2019t seen for a long time, he\u2019ll do a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was important for people to recognise Dogg as the \u201cperson he is today,\u201d and that the AFL could not vouch for \u201cevery lyric in every song ever written or performed by any artist who has or will appear on our stage\u201d, Dillon added.<\/p>\n

\"Snoop(Getty)<\/p>\n

The rapper\u2019s comments, made on the It\u2019s Giving<\/a> podcast<\/a>, came on the same day Dillon defended signing him for the big day.\u00a0<\/a>Dogg recalled watching the Toy Story spin-off which featured a same-sex kiss, with his grandson, who asked him: \u201cPapa Snoop, how she have a baby with a woman? She\u2019s a woman.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dogg told listeners he had felt: \u201cAw s**t, I didn\u2019t come for this s**t, I came here to watch the goddamn movie. Y\u2019all throwing me in the middle of this s**t that I don\u2019t have an answer for.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to say: \u201cIt threw me for a loop.\u201d<\/p>\n

The singer is now frightened to watch films<\/a>, fearing he might have to acknowledge the existence of LGBTQ+ people and their relationships.<\/p>\n

He also complained that the kiss was not appropriate for a children\u2019s film and about LGBTQ+ representation being \u201ceverywhere\u201d. The remarks came on the day Adelaide\u2019s Izak Rankine was given a reduced suspension<\/a> for \u201cmedical\u201d reasons after he used a homophobic slur during a game.<\/p>\n

Share your thoughts!\u00a0Let us know in the comments below, and remember to keep the conversation respectful.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFL boss Andrew Dillon has said Snoop Dogg will do a \u201cgreat job\u201d as the headline act for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,80832,64,63,55,639,49334,85],"class_list":["post-113404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-anti-lgbtq","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-snoop-dogg","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}