Kieran Gilbert to host Fox Sports Rugby World Cup coverage
Sky News chief political reporter Kieran Gilbert is to front sister network Fox Sports’ coverage of the Rugby World Cup in Japan.
The tournament runs from September 20 until November 2 and Gilbert will take a break from Sky News for the duration of the competition.
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With the coming departure of Sky News political editor David Speers to host the ABC’s Insiders, Gilbert will be the network’s most senior political journalist. The Fox Sports work could be seen as a way of offering Gilbert career progression after nearly two decades of reporting on politics for Sky News.
Gilbert said in a statement: “My two great interests are politics and sport, so after 17 years covering politics I can’t wait to launch into some sport as well.”
“I’m hugely excited to be joining Fox Sports for one of the biggest sporting competitions in the world, working alongside Wallabies legends Phil Kearns, George Gregan and Tim Horan among others. It’ll be an honour and I can’t wait to cover all the action with them.”
Fox Sports Head of Television, Steve Crawley, said: “Kieran is a world class television host. He jumped at our proposition to host Fox Sports coverage.”
In June, Kieran Gilbert’s higher profile brother Tim Gilbert – former sports anchor of Nine’s Today Show – joined Sky News for new show The Business of Sport, which also airs on Fox Sports.
Both Sky News and Fox Sports are owned by News Corp.
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Kieran Gilbert quite possibly the worst choice of Hosts for Rugby World Cup 2019. Where’s Nick McArdle?
Kierans style of questioning and lack of cohesion with the professionals just makes for a really bad combo and if this is what the next 6 weeks holds then Fox…. you suck.
Get rid of him. Go back to politics cos you have no place in sports.
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“ Politics”, why do organizations do this? Nick McArdle is a quality presenter and a quality man. A terrible decision. Nicks IP and experience as well as is rapport with the other presenters has all been over looked because someone in management wants to show how big and how influential they are. Park your ego whom ever made the decision and realize if It’s not broken don’t fix it.
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