Was this his decision or the networks?
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BEAU Ryan has stood down from the Footy Show following allegations he had a romantic affair with former Hi-5 children’s entertainer Lauren Brant.
It has been revealed today that Ryan has stood down from his Footy Show commitments indefinitely, according to Channel 9 sources.
“He has issues he is dealing with that are more important at the moment,” said a network source.
From the bold part, it looks like Beau stood himself down and not the network, although you can never be sure.
Either way, Beau's career is.....screwed. After signing with Ch9 after retiring last year at only 29, he was well set up for life with Gyngell giving him a very comfortable, well-paying job after a somewhat average NRL career. Not to mention scoring gigs in musicals like Aladdin (which is where this affair occurred) with no background in theatre/performing arts vs. people who I've personally known who have been involved with performing arts and stage productions for many years and still can't score gigs of that level of magnitude....Beau can consider himself VERY fortunate that his media profile opened the door to such avenues as that, and producing music on the ARIA charts (with Justice Crew) etc. etc.
And as I've said before in the past, Beau doesn't have the versatility of Matt Johns to attract gigs from multiple networks. His peak on TFS is behind him. His best work was the "Beau Knows" segments he did was in the early years of the show (2009-11) after replacing Matty. And I don't think most of the audience he appeals to (younger females) are going to look at his clean-cut, charming personality the same way after this.
It's going to be interesting to see if the panel will talk about Beau on the upcoming Thursday night's Footy Show, or are they just going to pretend that he doesn't exist and nothing happened.
