{"id":911779,"date":"2026-10-01T03:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911779\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T03:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:44:11","slug":"the-nrl-grand-final-entertainment-proposal-peter-ford-thinks-is-contrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911779\/","title":{"rendered":"The NRL Grand Final entertainment proposal Peter Ford thinks is &#8216;contrived&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pre-game entertainment for the NRL Grand Final is up is in the air, after Australian singer \u2018Tones and I\u2019 pulled out of Sunday\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s a proposal for the entertainment that reporter Peter Ford thinks is \u201ccontrived\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s got a big blowback,\u201d Ford said on 3AW Breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear him explain<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t sound sincere, given that they are obviously scrambling to try and pull something together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Image: Jeremy Ng\/Getty\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pre-game entertainment for the NRL Grand Final is up is in the air, after Australian singer \u2018Tones&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-911779","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\/911779","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=911779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}