{"id":882732,"date":"2026-09-07T01:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882732\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T01:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:46:13","slug":"nrl-grand-final-entertainment-2026-news-afl-gets-kylie-minogue-peter-vlandys-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882732\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL grand final entertainment 2026 news, AFL gets Kylie Minogue, Peter V\u2019landys criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

NRL<\/a> boss Peter V\u2019landys<\/a> has taken another pot shot at the AFL<\/a> while revealing he is close to announcing grand final entertainment acts.<\/p>\n

V\u2019landys is yet to secure an artist to headline this year\u2019s big day, which will be on October 4 in Sydney.<\/p>\n

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NRL boss Peter V\u2019landys speaks to Today.\u00a0Today<\/p>\n

His arch rival the AFL, however, locked in Aussie pop icon Kylie Mingoue in March<\/a> to light up the Melbourne Cricket Ground.<\/p>\n

V\u2019landys spoke to Nine\u2019s Today on Monday morning shortly after a segment aired spruiking the looming Minogue show on AFL grand final day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are the most watched sport in Australia, we don\u2019t need international pop stars to come in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur entertainment is our game.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re still the most watched sport in Australia, we\u2019ve got the top three most watched programs in Australia in State of Origin, and this finals series is going\u00a0to break more records.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou won\u2019t get a more entertaining\u00a0sport than rugby league. Other sports need these acts, we don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minogue is Australian while, ironically, the NRL last year brought American singer Teddy Swims in to headline its big day.<\/p>\n

But the AFL has copped plenty of criticism in recent years for spending millions on big-name international acts, including Katy Perry, Meat Loaf, The Killers, and ageing rockers Kiss.<\/p>\n

The NRL has typically preferred homegrown artists but went international last year with Teddy Swims.<\/p>\n

But the V\u2019landys comments on Monday suggest this year will see a return to having Aussie musicians headline the big dance.<\/p>\n

He said an act is \u201cnearly locked in\u201d but would give no other clues as to who it might be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NRL boss Peter V\u2019landys has taken another pot shot at the AFL while revealing he is close to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-882732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882732","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=882732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}