{"id":904268,"date":"2026-09-24T22:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/904268\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T22:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:58:12","slug":"nrl-2026-peter-vlandys-on-surprise-grand-final-entertainment-tones-and-i-shannon-noll-daily-angry-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/904268\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2026: Peter V\u2019landys on surprise grand final entertainment, Tones and I, Shannon Noll, Daily, Angry Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"

NRL boss Peter V\u2019landys now says the grand final could feature a last-minute act for its pre-game entertainment.<\/p>\n

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The news comes after award-winning artist Tones and I was scrapped as the headline entertainment <\/a>over her refusal to play one of her hit songs, Dance Monkey.<\/p>\n

V\u2019landys, always trying to turn a negative into a positive, decided the near $1 million that was going to be spent on Tones and I would be given to grassroots footy initiatives. <\/p>\n

Since the announcement, a number of local Aussie artists have put their hands up to perform.<\/p>\n

Speaking to CODE Sports<\/a>, V\u2019landys, who was officially revealed as the game\u2019s executive chair on Thursday, wasn\u2019t ruling out a late change to the pre-game entertainment. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere could be a surprise,\u201d V\u2019landys said.<\/p>\n

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Singer Shannon Noll appeared on the Today Show on Thursday morning and said he would perform at Accor Stadium next Sunday evening and would pay tribute to Aussie rock great Angry Anderson, who died this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI put a post up saying I was available just so we wouldn\u2019t have a nothing show there,\u201d Noll said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t expect it to blow up as quick as it did. It was just saying if you need someone I am free and would love to do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven the tragic news of Angry Anderson, who was a great mate of mine\u2026 I thought what a great tribute it would be to him to sing You Can\u2019t Be Beaten on grand final day, which is an amazing pump-up rugby song.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Noll said he hadn\u2019t heard from the NRL yet, but revealed his fee would be nowhere near as much as Tones and I.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not holding my breath. I think one thing is there would be plenty of money left over for grassroots footy,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are better off having someone there than no one so I thought I\u2019d put my hand up and say I am available.\u201d<\/p>\n

V\u2019landys has proven over the years that he\u2019s a dreamer who can make things happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NRL boss Peter V\u2019landys now says the grand final could feature a last-minute act for its pre-game entertainment.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-904268","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\/904268","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=904268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}