{"id":894978,"date":"2026-09-17T06:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/894978\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T06:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:12:15","slug":"isaac-heeneys-fiancee-steffie-waters-deletes-engagement-photo-amid-sydney-swans-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/894978\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Heeney\u2019s fiancee Steffie Waters deletes engagement photo amid Sydney Swans scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/person\/isaac-heeney-25o8\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaac Heeney<\/a>\u2019s fiancee Steffie Waters has deleted an engagement photo of the pair from her public <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/steffiewaters\/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\">Instagram account<\/a>, as the fallout from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/sydney-swans-5sp\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Swans<\/a> scandal continues.  <\/p>\n<p>The October 2025 post \u2013 which showed waters flashing her ring after Heeney proposed in French Polynesia \u2013 appears to be the only image of the couple removed from her page. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sydney Swans player Isaac Heeney has popped the question to his girlfriend Steffanie Waters while the pair were on a romantic holiday in French Polynesia.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a7a1da386e7d5aa4fb7d1618c0686dfaa7ac641e.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">This photo of Isaac Heeney and Steffie Waters\u2019 engagement announcement on October 25 has been removed from Waters\u2019 Instagram post. \u00a0Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Waters\u2019 removal of the engagement announcement post has raised questions about whether their upcoming wedding will go ahead following the Sydney Swans scandal. <\/p>\n<p>The alleged events of August 17 saw Swans vice-captain Heeney and four other players \u2013 Chad Warner, Nick Blakey, Riley Bice and James Jordon \u2013 suspended for the remainder of the season for breaching club standards.  <\/p>\n<p>While Heeney and Waters\u2019 engagement post has quietly disappeared, many other loved-up pictures of the couple remain viewable to the public. <\/p>\n<p>Several images of the pair, including pictures from their travels and their attendance at the 2025 Brownlow Medal ceremony, are still on Waters\u2019 social media page.   <\/p>\n<p>Another photo, from May 5, depicts the pair sharing cocktails on the beach together. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy 30th birthday to this boy. Can\u2019t wait to be your wife,\u201d Waters captioned the post.  <\/p>\n<p>The deletion of the engagement post isn\u2019t the first signal Waters has made about their relationship. <\/p>\n<p>In early September she unpinned the announcement post from the top section of her Instagram feed, making it less prominent to her followers.   <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Isaac Heeney and Steffie Waters\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2c33591a74a38c12ed317814df6cbf55b4eaf2e0a7b15ee64138960147cd41c7.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Waters\u2019 deletion of the engagement post raised questions over whether her and Heeney\u2019s upcoming wedding will still go ahead. \u00a0Instagram\/@steffiewaters<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Isaac Heeney and Steffie Waters\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/5db389d57737b01ed0792092b63e8d815910a4c752035eff4d0e2c6d56159693.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Waters still has several other images of her and Heeney viewable on her page.\u00a0Instagram\/@steffiewaters<\/p>\n<p>Heeney has been revealed as the focus of a Victoria Police investigation into allegations of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>The Victoria Police Sexual Crimes Squad continues to investigate an alleged sexual assault that occurred that evening, but no charges have been laid.<\/p>\n<p>Nine.com.au is not suggesting any of the players who have been stood down have been accused of sexual assault, and no charges have been laid.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isaac Heeney\u2019s fiancee Steffie Waters has deleted an engagement photo of the pair from her public Instagram account,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-894978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894978","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=894978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}