Footy star Charlie Coomben finally comes clean about his romance with his ex-teammate's SISTER Liv Taylor after keeping it a secret
The Kangaroos ruck has revealed that his new partner is glamourous Pilates instructor Liv Taylor, who is the sister of former North Melbourne star Curtis Taylor.
The couple have been dating for about five months, but apart from a couple of sneaky snaps on Taylor's Instagram, they have never made it social media official.
Coomben has previously admitted to dating Taylor on his 200 Plus podcast, but did reveal names or any other details.
'I've found myself a lovely girlfriend … I don't have to validate my relationship in the eyes of other people,' Comben said at the time.
But he was boxed into a corner on Nova radio's Jase & Lauren show last week, where the Kangaroos big man was forced to reveal all.
Coomben had appeared on Jase & Lauren previously, but Lauren had been away that day. So they brought him back - where he got more than he bargained for.
'These two [Jason and sports journalist Clint Stanaway] have not stopped raving about you since you were last on our show,' Lauren said.
'Did you have as much fun with them as they had with you?'
'It was good fun, it was a little bit of a stitch up,' Coomben replied.
'I had to do a shout out to my beautiful girlfriend Liv with the beautiful hair.'
Lauren then revealed they had the audio of the previous time he had been on the show.
'What do you love about her Charlie?' Jason asked.
'Shout out to Liv, I love her hair, eyes, beautiful personality,' Coomben replied.
'What's her hair like?' Jason asked.
'It's brunette, nice, brown, long, it's great,' Coomben said awkwardly while laughing.
Lauren said: 'Any woman would love to hear their partner talk about them like that.'
'I'm glad,' Coomben said.
'It got me some brownie points, it really did.'
Coomben then revealed she was actually at the studio, but he left her waiting out in the car.
'You left her in the car?' shocked host Jason asked.
'I want to bring her in, I still haven't posted anything yet [to Instagram],' Coomben said. 'I'm going to get around to it.'
Jason asked: 'Oh she's not on the [Instagram] grid yet? Can we bring her in?'
Taylor was then brought in to face the music and do a hard launch of their relationship.
'We've been together about five months,' Coomben said as his girlfriend made her way from the car into the studio.
'It's all going really well and we're really happy.'
Clint and Coomben then proceeded to talk football while they were waiting for Taylor to arrive in the studio.
The North Melbourne star even entertained the listeners with an acoustic guitar cover of a Tears for Fears classic. And then Liv arrived in the studio to raucous applause.
'Do you want to kill your boyfriend right now?' Lauren joked.
'I was actually at a cafe around the corner and I just got [the show] on in time, and I was like 'he's not, is he?',' Liv said. 'I already got stitched up the last time he came on, with a love letter.'
They all pointed out that Coomben was right, she did have lovely hair.
'The amount of text messages I got after that, all I got from that was I have nice eyes and long hair,' she laughed.
Liv said not being 'Instagram official' had not phased her.
'Everyone else keeps getting stuck into me about it, especially [Essendon star] Sam Draper on the podcast,' she said.
She was then asked to dig up the dirt on her AFL star boyfriend.
'Charlie's personality, he gets quite obsessive with things,' she said.
'So at the minute it's hiking. So every single night he sits there and watches YouTube and just watches videos on this Russell Coight type person.
'I think at the minute he's got three different sleeping bags, a light one, a medium one and a heavy one.
'So Charlie is the definition of all the gear, no idea.'
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