{"id":532796,"date":"2026-03-11T07:31:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532796\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:31:20","slug":"a-current-affair-mar-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532796\/","title":{"rendered":"A Current Affair: Mar 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tACA reporter Steve Marshall speaks to Marty Sheargold in his first television interview since his radio comments dissing the Matildas.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A Current Affair speaks to comedian Marty Sheargold tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Former radio host and comedian Marty Sheargold finally breaks his silence in his first television interview over his outrageous rant on Triple M radio, where he mocked the Australian women\u2019s soccer team, the Matildas.<\/p>\n<p>He compared the elite sports stars to Year 10 girls, saying he\u2019d rather watch men\u2019s sport. The fallout was epic. He lost his job and comedic career. One year on, he sits down with reporter Steve Marshall in his first television interview, and nothing is off limits. He openly talks about that controversial moment, the subsequent fallout, and the end of his radio career. So, will his reflections on what happened still divide Australia? He\u2019s now hoping to make a comeback, and we are there when he hits the stage for his aptly named new comedy show called \u201cRed Card Tour\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>7pm tonight on Nine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ACA reporter Steve Marshall speaks to Marty Sheargold in his first television interview since his radio comments dissing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-532796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532796","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=532796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}