{"id":268074,"date":"2025-11-07T05:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T05:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/268074\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T05:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T05:05:10","slug":"fox-sports-stars-set-for-major-reshuffle-ahead-of-2026-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/268074\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Sports stars set for major reshuffle ahead of 2026 &#8211; NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox League has confirmed a significant on-air shake-up for the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> season, with the return of Yvonne O&#8217;Keefe as one of the network&#8217;s headline presenters.<\/p>\n<p>The popular host, who stepped back from television duties following the birth of her second child with journalist Chris O&#8217;Keefe, will return to screens next season, marking a major reshuffle behind the Fox League desk.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Keefe previously fronted NRL 360 and other key programs before taking maternity leave earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to Code Sports, her comeback will lead to a series of high-profile changes within Fox Sports&#8217; rugby league coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/manly-sea-eagles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manly Sea Eagles<\/a> premiership winner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/coaches\/kieran-foran\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kieran Foran<\/a>, who retired in July, will also take on a full-time role as an analyst after impressing viewers in 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-126016\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Worst thing that could happen to each club in 2023\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/kieran-foran.jpg.webp.webp\"\/>Gold Coast Titan&#8217;s Kieran Foran (Image: Gold Coast Titans Twitter)<\/p>\n<p>Foran will balance his media commitments with a new job as an assistant coach at the Sea Eagles, reuniting with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/coaches\/anthony-seibold\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Seibold<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the scenes, Mitch Diffin, a former NRL 360 producer, has been promoted to head of rugby league, while Jamie Lockyer becomes head of cricket, and Joe Bromham remains executive director of sport.<\/p>\n<p>Fox Sports boss Steve Crawley praised the next generation of talent coming through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our world, it&#8217;s hard to find good young producers, and I feel like I&#8217;ve got the best young producers in Australian broadcasting,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Fox League will continue to boast a star-studded commentary team featuring Matty Johns, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/cooper-cronk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cooper Cronk<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/braith-anasta\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Braith Anasta<\/a>, Greg Alexander, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/michael-ennis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Ennis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/nathan-hindmarsh\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Hindmarsh<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/shaun-johnson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shaun Johnson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/coaches\/mal-meninga\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mal Meninga<\/a>, Lara Pitt, Gorden Tallis, Warren Smith, Andrew Voss, and others.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s return caps off a big year for the presenter, who will juggle family life with her on-air duties as she makes her long-awaited comeback to rugby league broadcasting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox League has confirmed a significant on-air shake-up for the 2026 NRL season, with the return of Yvonne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-268074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268074","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=268074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}