{"id":8580,"date":"2025-07-20T14:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/8580\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T14:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:11:10","slug":"controversial-former-abc-star-who-lost-her-job-over-gaza-posts-makes-shock-career-move-as-she-joins-forces-with-abbie-chatfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/8580\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial former ABC star who lost her job over Gaza posts makes shock career move as she joins forces with Abbie Chatfield"},"content":{"rendered":"

By A JAMES FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA<\/a> <\/p>\n

Published: 04:29 EDT, 20 July 2025 | Updated: 05:09 EDT, 20 July 2025 <\/p>\n

Controversial former ABC freelancer Antoinette Lattouf has announced she has signed with the Stage Addiction talent agency – the same agency as Abbie Chatfield<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lattouf, 45, who made headlines earlier last year after her highly-publicised wrongful dismissal case against the public broadcaster, went online last month to\u00a0reveal her dramatic career move.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a post shared with her new agency, Lattouf posed for a professional photo in a a stylish all-blue outfit of slacks and a shirt and included a cheeky caption.<\/p>\n

‘Who’s this human headline hottie now being repped by Stage Addiction?’ the Instagram post began.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She added, ‘Get your people to call my people etc etc.’<\/p>\n

From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail’s new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Controversial <\/p>\n

Controversial former ABC freelancer Antoinette Lattouf (pictured) has announced she has signed with the Stage Addiction talent agency<\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

The Stage Addiction talent agency is the same agency Abbie Chatfield (pictured) is part of<\/p>\n

Ben Grand of Stage Addiction is set to manage the broadcaster and writer, reported Sky News last month.<\/p>\n

Also included on the Stage Addiction talent roster is Cheek Media founder and TV commentator and author Hannah Ferguson and Bachelor star Matt Agnew<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lattouf, who has 118K followers, received an enthusiastic response from her fans, who sent messages of congratulations.<\/p>\n

‘You’re such a talent. Beauty, brains, heart and comedic genius,’ said one follower while Matt Agnew simply wrote ‘Welcome’.<\/p>\n

‘Fearless Warrior Journalist Presenter I presume! And my absolute Hero!’ said another user.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lattouf won her case for unlawful termination against the ABC, with the public broadcaster ordered to pay her $70,000 in compensation last month.<\/p>\n

The casual radio host and Palestine<\/a> advocate was hired for a week-long stint on ABC Radio Sydney’s Mornings program in December 2023.<\/p>\n

She was let go after just three shifts for sharing a Human Rights Watch post that said Israel was using starvation as a ‘weapon of war’ in Gaza.<\/p>\n

\"Lattouf <\/p>\n

Lattouf won her case for unlawful termination against the ABC, with the public broadcaster ordered to pay her $70,000 in compensation last month. Pictured: Lattouf outside the Federal Court of Australia in February<\/p>\n

The ABC claimed it took Lattouf off the air because she failed to follow a direction not to post about Israel or the war in Gaza during her five-day shift<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Justice Darryl Rangiah, who delivered his judgement in Sydney’s Federal Court, disagreed, finding pro-Israel lobbyists formed an ‘orchestrated campaign’ to pressure then-ABC chair Ita Buttrose to take Lattouf off air.<\/p>\n

He found the ABC contravened the Fair Work Act by terminating Lattouf’s employment ‘for reasons including that she held a political opinion opposing the Israeli military campaign in Gaza<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n

Justice Rangiah ordered the ABC to pay Lattouf compensation of $70,000, with the public broadcaster also potentially on the hook for ‘pecuniary penalties’ for breaking the law.<\/p>\n

In a statement to Daily Mail Australia, Lattouf boasted about her ‘landmark’ win.<\/p>\n

Matt Agnew<\/a>Abbie Chatfield<\/a><\/p>\n

Share or comment on this article:
\n Controversial former ABC star who lost her job over Gaza posts makes shock career move as she joins forces with Abbie Chatfield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By A JAMES FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA Published: 04:29 EDT, 20 July 2025 | Updated: 05:09 EDT, 20…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[10422,64,63,447,100,134,10421,2017],"class_list":["post-8580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-abbie-chatfield","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-dailymail","tag-entertainment","tag-matt-agnew","tag-tvshowbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580","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=8580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}