Channel Ten football anchorboy Anthony Hudson will continue to helm match day coverage despite being inundated with negative mail calling for his immediate dismissal. Hudson who crossed to television football commentary after partnering Rex Hunt on 3AW, refused to comment on the situation although a source close to his manager agreed to talk to I-Footy.
“Anthony hasn’t been perturbed by the barrage of hate mail he has received” the source said. “He’s been used to it for some time now.”
Letters and faxes began steadily accumulating at Ten’s Sports Department when 10 won a share of the AFL broadcast rights.
“Some of it is quite constructive” the source said. “There’s plenty of people out there who can’t afford Foxtel.”
Initially hired for an observed ‘versatility coupled with youth market appeal’, Hudson was to head football commentary with Stephen Quartermain and co-host Before the Game with Peter Hellier. After a verbal altercation with Dave Hughes Hudson was soon demoted from the live show for a more youthful Andy Maher.
Not known to back away from pointing out the obvious, Hudson, according to the source, had told Hughes to drop the workingman routine.
“Hudson told him, ‘look you’re a multimillionaire with a vacant hot girlfriend and you hang with Rove. Knock off the blue collar shit’” the source quoted Hudson as having said.
Network heavyweights were disapproving enough of Hudson’s ‘attack’ to downgrade his profile to a level comparable to Michael Christian’s. It is thought that the growing pile of diatribes viewers were sending in failed to help Hudson’s cause.
“Anthony didn’t have any friends in school” the source said. “Man, anyone prepared to use ‘he goes long and strong’ as their catchcry has got some unresolved issues. People pick up on that. Some sooner than others.”
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