{"id":299534,"date":"2026-02-24T09:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/299534\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:33:07","slug":"parramatta-eels-star-isaiah-iongi-faces-nrl-investigation-over-questionable-smoking-images-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/299534\/","title":{"rendered":"Parramatta Eels star Isaiah Iongi faces NRL investigation over questionable smoking images on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Isaiah Iongi has been referred to the NRL\u2019s integrity unit after images of him with an unknown substance surfaced.<\/p>\n

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The Parramatta Eels have contacted the NRL integrity unit after photos emerged online of 22-year-old fullback Isaiah Iongi preparing to smoke an unknown substance.<\/p>\n

Images have surfaced online showing Iongi holding a pre-rolled paper, with an unknown substance in what appears to be a herb grinder in front of him.<\/p>\n

Other pictures show him holding a lighter underneath the paper tube in a bathtub, then appearing to smoke it in a dark room.<\/p>\n

It is not known who took the images, or when or where they were taken, but the Sydney Morning Herald claims they were published on social media without his consent.<\/p>\n

There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing by Iongi, but the Eels immediately referred the matter straight to the NRL\u2019s integrity unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 24 Feb, 2026 04:29 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[131961,74,91054,37827,15356,6119,78977,305,5606,62957,12898,164652,164651,1073,111,139,577,69,90,1642,1523,164650,254,34293,164653,3948,20789,1072,213,2737,66989,8443,4060],"class_list":{"0":"post-299534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-22yearold","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-contacted","11":"tag-eels","12":"tag-emerged","13":"tag-faces","14":"tag-fullback","15":"tag-have","16":"tag-images","17":"tag-integrity","18":"tag-investigation","19":"tag-iongi","20":"tag-isaiah","21":"tag-media","22":"tag-new-zealand","23":"tag-newzealand","24":"tag-nrl","25":"tag-nz","26":"tag-on","27":"tag-online","28":"tag-over","29":"tag-parramatta","30":"tag-photos","31":"tag-preparing","32":"tag-questionable","33":"tag-smoke","34":"tag-smoking","35":"tag-social","36":"tag-sports","37":"tag-star","38":"tag-substance","39":"tag-unit","40":"tag-unknown"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}