Seven replaces Matthew Newton with Luke Jacobz as X Factor host
Seven has moved to replace X Factor host Matthew Newton with Home & Away star Luke Jacobz.
The last minute repalcement for the show – which goes to air next Monday – comes after it emerged yesterday that Newton was off the show for health reasons.
Jacobz is also a previous winner of Seven’s Dancing With the Stars.
Jacobz said : “I am absolutely thrilled to be a part of the The X Factor – I’m raring to go. It’s a big opportunity, and I feel very blessed to be on board.”
The Fremantle Media production premieres next Monday and will run nightly for the rest of the week.
Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.
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Is being a dickhead considered a health issue?
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Is ‘health reason’ code for (edited by Mumbrella for legal reasons)?
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Poor old Burt and Patti must be shaking their heads, asking where they went wrong!! Not their fault, but somewhere Matthew thinks he is above the law and all common decency…have to feel for Brooke who was made to feel that she had embelleshed when he did it to her…. Such a shame to see this talent wasted…is their a pattern do you think with kids that have famous parents??
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Why do the media / reps/ whoever call it a health issue? – (edited by Mumbrella for legal reasons).
No amount of talent can ever excuse his behavior and it’s stupid of Channel 7 to even try and explain this one – what was considered a bad choice originally has turned even more sour….
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They should’ve kept him on the show – if I treated my past girlfriends like that, I’d have the “Ex factor” too…
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Alcoholism cannot be cured with a 28-day rehab. stint, it’s ongoing. Get with the program matthew, and you’ll live a life of decency.
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When MN was first announced as presenter, I commented on , mUmBRELLA about my concerns in putting someone with a very obvious and very public agression and drug / alcohol associated problems, in a position – not only of fame – but of power.
Hopefully one day, (when pigs are flying and moons are blue), television producers and execs will realise that all they do by agreeing to these contraversial celebrity contracts is waste a heap of money on legal expenses.
Meanwhile, MN needs to find another career path. This is destroying not only his career, but his well respected family name within the industry they have worked their entire lives.
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This may explain but not excuse it. Via @theworstofperth twitter.
“Newton snaps over practical joke. Convincing him his head was expanding like Bert’s by replacing his hats with smaller & smaller sizes, his…”
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Crazy shakes told me the first time around it was a media stitch up and the legal system was a joke.
Second (is it only the second?) time around, I’m inclined to believe they weren’t harsh enough in the first place.
Russ – there’d be no expense on the part of X Factor, it’s a clear breach of contract.
What a waste. Being a fuckwit’s one thing, being a fuckwit to women guarantees no sell left for you.
I don’t feel sorry for you anymore Matt, not one bit.
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Well, Matt (edited by Mumbrella for legal reasons) and then (edited by Mumbrella for legal reasons). Sometimes, it is said that (edited by Mumbrella for legal reasons) and (edited by Mumbrella for legal reasons).
Hey, where you aware that (edited by Mumbrella for legal reasons) ? I mean its a well known fact that (edited by Mumbrella for legal reasons) and a monkey.
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You’re a funny, funny man, Tom. But it would be in italics if I’d edited it.
I do feel sorry for the monkey though.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
Matthew is just angry about his height, I’ve seen him a number of times and even with his cuban heels and bouffant styled hair he is still only up to my armpits. I’m not really that tall either.
Angry little man syndrome.
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Heh.
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Perhaps there was a typo in the B-Grade Celebrity Behaviour Handbook Matt got given as an 18th birthday present, and the bit where it said “As a B-Grade TV Celebrity it is your duty to hit on hot chicks as often as possible” (edited by Mumbrella for legal reasons).
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I find it strange that he only hits skinny girls.If it was really out of his control his rage , wouldnt he be belting bouncers or taxi drivers as well.?Well no, he wouldnt cos he’d get his arse kicked.
He’s just a weak & pathetic mummies boy,the drugs obviously tipped his self obsession over.
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