told NRL 360<\/a> on Wednesday that personal reasons were behind reports of a move to Sydney.<\/p>\n\u201cTommy\u2019s got a partner who lives in Sydney. She\u2019s now pregnant,\u201d Read said.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s from and lives in Sydney, but I believe she\u2019s moving up there now since she\u2019s pregnant and there\u2019s been some talk that there\u2019s been some interest in Tommy leaving the Cowboys.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Cowboys have denied this several times. There were rumours that his management met the club to talk about potentially leaving if his partner can\u2019t settle into Townsville.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dearden\u2019s partner, Millie Olliver, is due to give birth with the couple\u2019s first child later this year.<\/p>\n
She has stayed in Sydney throughout the season, where she runs a hair salon business, but is expected to move to Townsville to reunite with the 25-year old later this year.<\/p>\n
Tom Dearden. Picture: NRL PhotosSource: Supplied<\/p>\n
According to CODE Sports, Dearden is motivated by a desire to repay the Cowboys and Payten, who recruited him despite his career stalling at the struggling Brisbane Broncos in mid-2021.<\/p>\n
The star five-eighth claimed the Wally Lewis Medal in Queensland\u2019s come-from-behind win in the 2025 State of Origin series after replacing Daly Cherry-Evans in the No.7.<\/p>\n
He made his Test debut for Australia in 2024 shortly after being crowned Dally M five-eighth of the year, and was named Player of the Match against Tonga in that year\u2019s Pacific Championships.<\/p>\n
He quickly became the face of the Cowboys after moving from the Broncos.<\/p>\n
In an interview with News Corp in July, he declared his desire to lead the club to a second premiership.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you look back at 2015 and see what that first premiership meant to the community, you understand how much success means to this region,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would love to win a premiership for the people of North Queensland.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Queensland Cowboys captain Tom Dearden is set to emphatically end months of speculation and publicly re-commit to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-839006","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\/839006","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=839006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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