{"id":401640,"date":"2026-01-09T09:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401640\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T09:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:02:11","slug":"veteran-nrl-commentator-paul-kents-shock-cancer-diagnosis-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401640\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran NRL commentator Paul Kent\u2019s shock cancer diagnosis revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime rugby league commentator Paul Kent is facing a battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old, who currently hosts the Kenty Blitz and Kenty Primetime podcasts, was diagnosed before Christmas last year, The Daily Telegraph reported.<\/p>\n<p>Cancer had reportedly formed in Kent\u2019s lymph nodes around his neck.<\/p>\n<p>He would start receiving treatment next week at Sydney\u2019s Chris O&#8217;Brien cancer treatment centre.<\/p>\n<p>Between six to nine weeks of treatment was expected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlenty of people have got it worse than me and I\u2019ll be okay,\u201d Kent said, according to the masthead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had lots of people reach out, I know the value of true friendship and I appreciate it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kent formerly co-hosted Fox Sport\u2019s NRL 360 program and worked as a journalist for The Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>He departed Fox Sports and News Corp Australia amid an investigation into his involvement in a wild brawl outside a restaurant in Sydney&#8217;s inner-west in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He was <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/australia-news\/sport\/nrl-journalist-paul-kent-charged-with-affray-after-wild-brawl-outside-restaurant-in-sydneys-innerwest\/news-story\/8ae05b0983f6ac29b8d9fc7335751653\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"8ae05b0983f6ac29b8d9fc7335751653\" data-tgev-label=\"australia-news\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested and charged with affray<\/a> in relation to the incident, and later pleaded guilty to affray with no conviction being recorded.<\/p>\n<p>A court also found him not guilty of an alleged domestic assault towards his former partner in Sydney in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of social media users have left supportive messages online in the wake of veteran journalist\u2019s diagnosis news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one deserves cancer. All the best Kenty. Beat it lad,\u201d one person wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBest wishes to Kenty through this treatment period,\u201d another X user said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWish him well. Love his podcast,\u201d one person commented.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the best, Kenty. I miss him on NRL360,&#8221; another X user wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longtime rugby league commentator Paul Kent is facing a battle with cancer. The 56-year-old, who currently hosts the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,1617,2673,761,762,158,22799,159,85],"class_list":["post-401640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cancer","tag-diagnosis","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-paul-kent","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401640","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=401640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}