criticised by veteran AFL journalist Caroline Wilson, who said she “cannot understand why either woman chose to do it”.<\/a><\/p>\n“Jules Neale and Tess Crosley both gave so-called tell-all interviews last week on the eve of the AFL finals campaign- a campaign in which Jules Neale’s estranged husband Lachie is expected to feature heavily,” Wilson said in her ‘Caro\u2019s Call’ segment on Channel 7’s Agenda Setters.<\/p>\n
She added: “I watched, read, listened to both of these interviews and I cannot understand why either woman chose to do it, who is advising them and what they thought it would achieve.”<\/p>\n
Wilson’s comments sparked backlash online, with a number of viewers defending Jules’ decision to tell her side of the story.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I think Jules would like to get the record straight. So why not?” one person wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n
Another wrote on X: “He [Lachie] chose to cheat right after his wife gave birth to his child\u2026 I think she’s well within her rights to release this before he has a big game of football.”<\/p>\n
Others questioned why the saga was being discussed as part of AFL coverage at all. “And this is a football story?” one person wrote.<\/p>\n
The leaked message has now emerged as Neale appears to have gone public with a new romance with 29-year-old Emma Field.<\/p>\n
After Brisbane’s victory against the Fremantle Dockers on September 26, which marked the Lions’ third consecutive grand final win, Field shared a photo of herself with Neale on social media.<\/p>\n
Jules, meanwhile, had posted a selfie wearing a Dockers scarf ahead of the match.<\/p>\n
Neale, who is set to join the Collingwood Magpies in 2027, was also on the receiving end of a cheeky farewell from Brisbane coach Chris Fagan at the Lions’ Best and Fairest following another hugely successful season for the club.<\/p>\n
“I wish you all the best with the rest of your life and whatever happens to you,” Fagan said to Neale, prompting laughter from the crowd.<\/p>\n
Read related topics:Sport<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tess Crosley has claimed there is “truth to the swinger rumour” in a private message reportedly sent to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,3237,213154,25875,44,214113],"class_list":["post-913119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brisbane-lions","tag-jules-neale","tag-lachie-neale","tag-news","tag-tess-crossley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913119","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=913119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\u2018Sour](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/a0fbfe0bc2a071c03a65dc000b9f2c34.jpeg\")
<\/p>\n![\"\u2018Worst](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/f836b265953180c88f30003f7b6ddffa.jpeg\")
<\/p>\n