{"id":424545,"date":"2026-01-20T02:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/424545\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T02:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:44:08","slug":"show-your-support-fundraiser-for-one-of-the-nrls-good-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/424545\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Show your support&#8217; &#8211; Fundraiser for one of the NRL&#8217;s good guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">Wayne Cousins \u2014 known as \u201cCuzzo\u201d \u2014 is the former media manager for the Tigers and Sea Eagles.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Last year, he was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease called Guillain-Barr\u00e9 Syndrome.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">It affects just one in 100,000 Australians and causes the immune system to attack the body\u2019s nervous system.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">The illness left Cuzzo completely paralysed \u2014 unable to talk, walk, eat, or even breathe on his own.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">He spent most of 2025 in the Intensive Care Unit, but now, he\u2019s finally back home.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">There\u2019s been a groundswell of community support as well, led by broadcaster Yvonne Sampson.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trybooking.com\/events\/landing\/1512791\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LINK TO FUNDRAISER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Listen to more highlights from Mornings with Mark Levy below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>IMAGE CREDIT \/ DAILY TELEGRAPH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wayne Cousins \u2014 known as \u201cCuzzo\u201d \u2014 is the former media manager for the Tigers and Sea Eagles.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-424545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424545","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=424545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}