{"id":378592,"date":"2025-12-29T17:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T17:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/378592\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T17:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T17:05:13","slug":"former-tv-footy-reporter-tiffany-salmond-reveals-her-very-surprising-nrl-crush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/378592\/","title":{"rendered":"Former TV footy reporter Tiffany Salmond reveals her VERY surprising NRL crush"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tiffany Salmond has told fans on social media that she has had crushes on several NRL<\/a> coaches during her time working on television.<\/p>\n

The New Zealand broadcaster, who previously worked for Fox Sports as a sideline reporter for the New Zealand Warriors, took to Instagram to field questions on whether she ever \u2018had her eye on the players\u2019.<\/p>\n

But Salmond joked to fans on her Instagram story that it was the coaches who caught her eye the most, stating she came away from several interviews with the coaches feeling \u2018slightly flustered with a new little crush\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018It always makes me giggle when I see comments assuming I must\u2019ve had my eye on the players,\u2019 Salmond wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m not opposed to a bit of eye candy, don\u2019t get me wrong.<\/p>\n

\u2018But baby… if I was eyeing anyone? It was the coaches!<\/p>\n

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Popular NRL broadcaster Tiffany Salmond (pictured) has revealed that several coaches ‘caught her eye’ while she was working as a sideline reporter for Fox<\/p>\n

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Salmond joked to fans on her Instagram story that it was the coaches who caught her eye the most<\/p>\n

\u2018What can I say? I\u2019m a big fan of a silver fox,\u2019 she wrote, adding a winking face.<\/p>\n

\u2018[It was] purely innocent… Just me walking away from a few coach interviews slightly flustered and with a new little crush,\u2019 the former Fox Sports reporter said.<\/p>\n

Salmond did not reveal the names of the coaches whom she had a crush on.<\/p>\n

Two days ago, Salmond had also published a montage on the social media platform of herself speaking with several NRL players and coaches at games. During the clip, she was seen interviewing the likes of Craig Bellamy, Andrew Webster, Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad and Nicho Hynes.<\/p>\n

\u2018Still can\u2019t believe I was fired from the NRL for being too sexy,\u2019 she wrote on the video, while adding the caption: \u2018Had them all giggling though.\u2019<\/p>\n

In September, Salmond had also spoken out on how multiple NRL stars had tried to date her by sliding into her direct messages on social media.<\/p>\n

The Kiwi presenter stated: ‘This has happened to me a few times and I’ve never received these types of messages from anyone else except NRL players.<\/p>\n

‘It’ll be on TikTok and what they’ll do is send me a video to my DMs with no context, no message, no “hey”, nothing.<\/p>\n

‘And it’s always these bizarrely sexually charged videos or like over-the-top “I’m attracted to you” type videos.\u2019<\/p>\n

She went on to describe some of the bizarre messages she had received, stating that one included a very explicit moaning soundtrack.<\/p>\n

‘This is a very unique way of flirting that I’ve never experienced from anyone outside of the NRL, so I don’t know what’s going on here. Is this their locker room talk or do they think this works?’ Salmond said.<\/p>\n

The hugely popular television presenter, who has also held roles with Kiwi outlet RNZ and Sky, was dropped from Fox\u2019s NRL coverage at the start of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

She took to social media to claim that she was \u2018sidelined\u2019 by broadcasting bosses, while also calling for attitudes in the TV industry to change.<\/p>\n

Initially, Salmond said she was confused over why she had been snubbed after repeatedly being asked by fans why she was no longer on their TV screens.<\/p>\n

The broadcaster later added she believed television chiefs had dropped her because she was \u2018too bold\u2019 and \u2018disruptive\u2019.<\/p>\n

The sports reporter then added that while she might not fit the typical stereotype of what broadcasters want in their presenters, the love and support fans had sent her was the reason why she believed viewers wanted someone \u2018authentic\u2019 like herself.<\/p>\n

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The television presenter, who has also held roles with Kiwi outlet RNZ and Sky, was dropped from Fox\u2019s NRL coverage at the start of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

In 2024, Salmond found herself at the centre of Fox Sports\u2019 Jake Duke\u2019s high-profile split from Channel 7\u2019s Grace Fitzgibbon.<\/p>\n

It is understood that Fitzgibbon had dumped Duke after the Fox reporter had reportedly received multiple calls from Salmond during the \u2018wee hours of the morning\u2019. Salmond stated that she was unaware that Duke had a girlfriend when she rang him.<\/p>\n

‘I think it’s time we talk about the elephant in the room. Where I am. What’s happening with my career. Or let’s be honest, what’s not happening,’ she said, during a video clip on social media.<\/p>\n

‘It’s been a wild few months. The love, the DMs, the comments. The way in which how so many of you have been vocal about viscerally missing me.<\/p>\n

‘Then you juxtapose that next to the fact that I’m still off air. The silence, not only is it disorientating – it just doesn’t make any logical sense.<\/p>\n

‘When I really sat with that, I realised that this isn’t just about me. This is a broken system and a prime example of how the industry handles women who don’t fit the usual mould.’<\/p>\n

In May, Salmond was targeted by a shocking deepfake photo attack after she had posted a picture of herself wearing a bikini on social media.<\/p>\n

It came just weeks after NRLW star Jamie Chapman had reported that images of her had also been doctored and reposted online.<\/p>\n

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In May, Salmond was targeted by a shocking deepfake photo attack after she had posted a picture of herself wearing a bikini on social media<\/p>\n

\u2018Within hours a deepfake AI video was reportedly created and circulated,\u2019 Salmond said.<\/p>\n

‘It’s not the first time this has happened to me, and I know I’m not the only woman in sport this is happening to.’<\/p>\n

Salmond added: ‘You don’t make deepfakes of women you overlook. You make them of women you can’t control.<\/p>\n

‘This is what it looks like when a woman commands space, attention and presence. It threatens people.<\/p>\n

‘But I’m not threatened. I’m not flattered and I’m not going anywhere.<\/p>\n

‘It’s not the first time, and I’m sure it won’t be the last.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiffany Salmond has told fans on social media that she has had crushes on several NRL coaches during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,100,761,762,1736,158,588,85],"class_list":["post-378592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dailymail","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-new-zealand","tag-nrl","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378592","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=378592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}