NRL presenter Tiffany Salmond goes public on ‘truth' behind ‘silent' disappearance from Fox Sports coverage

7NEWS

08-07-2025

NRL TV presenter Tiffany Salmond says she was sacked by Fox Sports without being given any reason or notice.
The New Zealand-born Sydneysider has been missing from rugby league screens for close to a year without explanation, which has sparked widespread curiosity, concern, and even outrage from fans who loved her coverage.
Salmond has continued to appear on radio coverage with Triple M, but has had her social media posts flooded with questions from fans about her disappearance from their screens.
Now, the hugely popular reporter has explained her absence in two separate posts.
On Tuesday night, Salmond released a written statement accusing Fox Sports of a 'silent shut-out' for which she was 'never given a reason'.
'A lot of you have been asking why I disappeared from your screens this season,' she wrote on X.
'The truth is: there was no incident. No mistake. No warning — just dropped and erased.
'I wasn't let go because I failed. I was cut off while thriving, connecting, performing, and being embraced by the audience.
'There was nothing to fix, no feedback to apply, no bridge to mend. Just a quiet erasure from an industry that didn't know what to do with someone like me.
'And yes, people lose jobs every day, but this was not that. This was not a restructure. Not a performance issue. Not a scandal or clash behind the scenes.
'It was a silent shut-out, and it's been devastating.
'Professionally, because I loved what I did. Personally, because I was never given a reason.
'And while the speculation and gossip has been exhausting, the truth is simple: I was dismissed quietly. Without respect, and without reason.'
It was Salmond's second social media media post in the space of a few days, having posted a lengthy video late last week in which she detailed the 'broken system' that spat her out.
'I think it's time we talk about the elephant in the room; where I am, what's happening with my career — or, let's be honest, what's not happening,' she said in the video.
'I didn't leave rugby league media. I was sidelined.
'It's been a wild few months. The love, the DMs, the comments, the way so many of you have been vocal about viscerally missing me.
'But then you juxtapose that next to the fact that I'm still off-air, and the silence, not only is it disorienting, it just doesn't make any logical sense.
'When I really sat with that, I realise this isn't just about me. This is a broken system and a prime example of how the industry handles women who don't fit the usual mould.'
That her former employer was unwilling to support her unorthodox style, in her own words, is an indictment on them, she says.
'I know a lot of you have been confused as to why I'm no longer on your screens. You've been asking me for answers for months now. And for a long time, I was confused about it too,' Salmond went on.
'But when I really sat with it, it finally made sense to me; I'm not an easy hire, I'm not a safe hire.
'Because when someone only has a few minutes of air time across a handful of games and still builds this kind of demand, this kind of fan movement, it's not normal, it's not safe — that's a disruption.
'It's been nearly a year now since I was last on air, and I keep thinking surely the noise will die down, that you'll all forget and you'll move on.
'But you haven't — you've only gotten louder. And that's how I knew with certainty that something is deeply, deeply wrong here.
'I know I don't fit the traditional mould of what a TV presenter is supposed to be, but I think that's the whole point.
'Isn't that why so many of you have been demanding my return? Because you could see something real in me? You could feel the authenticity through the screen — you want something different.
'But it's human nature to want to categorise, to put people in neat little boxes.
'But that's the thing with me, you can't put me in a box.
'Maybe your instinct is to label me: 'too pretty to be sharp', 'too confident to be kind', 'too bold to be manageable'.
'But I'm not any of those cliches. I'm all of it. And that's confronting to a system that thrives on predictability and control.
'So, instead of evolving, instead of making space for someone like me, they'd rather remove the disruption altogether.
'Because if someone like me can show up fully as herself as thrive, then the whole system has to shift.
'I proved that you can break the mould, that you can show up differently and be rewarded for it.
'And while that's exciting to a visionary, someone who wants to lead a new era — to the gatekeepers, it's terrifying.'