confided in him in late 2019<\/a> about the alleged indecent assaults. Jones denies the allegations.<\/p>\nHadley is now being cross-examined by Jones\u2019 barrister Gabrielle Bashir, SC. She is expected to put to him that he encouraged \u201cC\u201d to make the allegations about Jones because the two broadcasters were professional rivals, but she has yet to launch this line of questioning.<\/p>\n
Hadley revealed during his cross-examination that he signed a \u201csecret contract\u201d in late 2018 to take over Jones\u2019 breakfast radio slot at 2GB from July 2019, after he was approached by John Singleton.Singleton was then a major shareholder in Macquarie Media, the company that owned 2GB.He said the deal fell over when Singleton sold down his stake in Macquarie Media to Nine Entertainment, the owner of this masthead, but that he insisted 2GB honour the agreement to double his salary from $2 million to $4 million.Nine has since sold its radio division, and Hadley retired from the airwaves in 2024.Hadley denied that he regarded the breakfast slot as the pinnacle of professional achievement and said he was motivated by money when he signed the deal.He denied that it was a difficult time for him when Jones re-signed his contract for two years in May 2019, saying: \u201cInadvertently Mr Jones had doubled my salary for doing the same job.\u201dHadley told the court that a 2GB employee told him in about 2019 that Alan Jones had \u201cmarshalled the troops and said, \u2018dig up some dirt on Hadley\u2019.\u201d Bashir asked if he had come to court to discredit that 2GB employee. \u201cNot at all, I\u2019ve come here to tell the truth, I\u2019m under oath,\u201d Hadley responded.Hadley has agreed that he called Jones many derogatory names over the years, and said they had a \u201ctumultuous relationship\u201d. He was taken to a text exchange he had with Jones in 2019 when Jones was sick. Jones had said he had been \u201ccrook as Rookwood\u201d, in a reference to the Sydney cemetery. Hadley had joked in response that he loved Jones \u201cabove ground\u201d.<\/p>\n
The hearing will resume after the lunch break, at 2pm.<\/p>\n
Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732) or the Men\u2019s Referral Service on 1300 766 491.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warning: Graphic content It was an action-packed morning at Alan Jones\u2019 criminal trial in the Downing Centre Local…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-877066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877066","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=877066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Ray Hadley arrives at court on Wednesday.Dominic Lorrimer<\/p>\n