{"id":37021,"date":"2025-08-01T08:31:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T08:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37021\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T08:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T08:31:04","slug":"snoop-dogg-set-to-headline-afl-grand-final-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37021\/","title":{"rendered":"Snoop Dogg set to headline AFL Grand Final entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hip-hop royalty could be headed to the \u2018G, with the AFL reportedly closing in on a deal to lock in Snoop Dogg as the headline act for the 2025 Grand Final entertainment.<\/p>\n

Channel 7\u2019s Mitch Cleary has revealed that the 53-year-old rap legend remains the league\u2019s \u201cnumber one priority\u201d and an announcement is expected within days. While AFL CEO Andrew Dillon refused to confirm the booking, he did hint that a major act was in the works.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many people care about it, and we’re going to have a big act that we’ll be announcing relatively soon,\u201d Dillon said earlier this week.<\/p>\n

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Snoop Dogg would become the third straight American star to feature on Grand Final day, following Katy Perry and KISS in recent years. Best known for global hits like Gin and Juice and Drop It Like It’s Hot, he last performed Down Under in 2023 on his \u201cI Wanna Thank Me\u201d tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s been some conjecture around Snoop Dogg, will he or won\u2019t he?\u201d Cleary said on Seven News.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand he\u2019s still the AFL\u2019s number one priority. They’re hoping to finalise an agreement in the next couple of days, with an announcement in the next four or five days.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having already rocked the Super Bowl stage in 2022 alongside Dr. Dre, Eminem and Mary J. Blige, Snoop\u2019s potential Grand Final set would mark another chapter in the AFL\u2019s growing tradition of big-name, international half-time shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hip-hop royalty could be headed to the \u2018G, with the AFL reportedly closing in on a deal to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-37021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37021","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=37021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}