Marty Sheargold axed from Triple M over women’s football and endometriosis comments
Comedian and presenter Marty Sheargold has been axed from Triple M just months after returning to the microphone. It comes after the Southern Cross Austereo network was forced to apologise for Sheargold’s sexist on-air comments, relating to the Australian women’s soccer team, the Matildas.
After Monday’s comments it also emerged that on Tuesday Sheargold joked that the debilitating female health condition endometriosis is not real.
With SCA due to announce its half-year results in the morning, management had no leeway to let Sheargold try to ride it out. The network issued a statement saying it would “part ways” with Sheargold.
On Monday, the Triple M personality said he would “rather hammer a nail through the head of [his] penis” than watch the Matildas play in the upcoming Women’s Asian Cup, during a news bulletin with co-hosts Troy Ellis and Will Ralston.
“You know what they remind me of? Year 10 girls,” he said, sparking laughter from his co-hosts. “Now I’m sorry to undermine the whole sport, but that’s what I think of it so you can stick it up your arse.”
In Tuesday’s comments, after telling listeners he was on pain killing medication for a bad back, he compared it to endometriosis, joking: “Controversial opinion. It’s something made up,”
Tonight’s statement said: “Triple M and Marty Sheargold have mutually agreed to part ways. Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) takes its responsibility to listeners, shareholders, and clients seriously and its programming should align with the standards and expectations of its audience,” Dave Cameron, chief content officer at SCA said.
“Right now, it’s clear this is a moment for reflection and review.
“Triple M, and the wider SCA network, will continue to take all necessary steps to support staff. A new Drive show will be announced in due course. Triple M acknowledges Marty’s contribution over the past four years, and we wish him well for the future.”
Sheargold said he “mutually agreed” to part ways with the network, and “fully understands” the gravity of his comments.
“I’d like to sincerely apologise to the Matildas and the broader organisation. I would also like to thank my immediate team for their hard work and apologise for the situation they now find themselves in.”
Sheargold was only given the 4-6pm drive time slot for Triple M Sydney and Brisbane, to go with a 3pm nationally networked hour, at the start of the year. Local editions of The Rush Hour were axed to make room for him.
Before his downfall, Sheargold had enjoyed nearly two decades close to the top of Australian radio with the Kate, Tim & Marty show for Nova and The Shebang with Fifi Box for Triple M.
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Give me back pain over my debilitating Endometriosis any day. So glad we don’t have to listen to him anymore.
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Criticism of sporting teams is common-place, but the amount of people overlooking what/how he has said trying to justify his comments is frightening.. I suppose in the age of Trump, Andrew Tate etc it’s no real surprise.
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Now we just need to get rid of that other misogynist Kyle, and the on-air quality of Aussie radio will improve enormously!
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These remarks perpetuate harmful stereotypes that undermine the legitimacy and professionalism of female athletes. By trivializing women’s sports and equating professional athletes to schoolchildren, his comments reinforce outdated and sexist notions that women’s sports are inferior to men’s
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The media now has one less retrograde, ignorant, out-of-touch shock jock polluting the news cycle, and we’re all better for it. Well done SCA
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As a former athlete who represented Australia, and as a parent of a teenage daughter playing soccer, I’d happily hammer that nail for him. What a sad, pathetic, little, unfunny bloke
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Go woke, go broke. They just lost half of their listeners.
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Only he didn’t just criticise a female team, He said inaccurate things about the Matildas and rubbished women’s sport overall, plus added misogynistic comments eg ‘I hope they believe in men’. Treating women’s sport as a joke has to stop. It’s 2025.
He really made himself unemployable though after denying that endometriosis even exists.
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We seem to be able to criticise any male team . But an under performing female team is off limits ? There’s an expression among men the only standards women have are double standards. Cue feckless outrage and free speech hypocrisy.
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The Matildss are overated overpaid boring and very ordinary..won nothing much.. and should stop overreacting to stupid jokes .
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No one would have batted an eyelid if similar comments were made about the men’s team.
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Love your work Mikey.
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Great that that dinosaur is gone
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