Collingwood Magpies premiership star Mason Cox has been blindsided on stay TV after being referred to as the “world’s biggest Cox blocker” by The Project’s Sarah Harris.
The 211cm American hit headlines this week after he put out a public plea to Taylor Swift followers who bought caught behind him at one in every of her three reveals on the MCG final weekend.
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Cox outted himself as a Swiftie final 12 months when he landed his tickets to the live performance, taking to social media to write down: “I want to sincerely apologise in advance for who has tickets behind me at the Taylor Swift concert. I know you paid a lot but I don’t care. T Swift is more important.”
He added it was a “1 in 100,000 chance you’ll be behind me” — however the factor about odds is that there’s all the time a one.
While he talked an enormous sport months out from the live performance, Cox wasn’t unapologetic when it got here to the crunch, sharing a photograph of him head and shoulders above the group.
While he revealed he and his crew shared candies with the unfortunate followers sat behind him, Cox revealed he felt “absolutely dreadful” in a radio interview on Tuesday.
It was the right in for The Project.
“How does it feel to be the world’s biggest Cox blocker?” Harris requested.
Through laughter, Cox mentioned: “One way to put it. Geez, I didn’t expect that one off the bat.”
Harris replied that they “made me”, with Cox including: “I’ll blame it on Waleed,” earlier than answering the query.
“I feel bad every time I go to a concert because there’s always a huge, massive haul of people behind me — it’s not ideal,” Cox mentioned.
“I know Taylor Swift, being an iconic act, coming to Melbourne, I had to ruin someone’s day. Unfortunately the people behind me got the unfortunate ticket.”
It’s not the primary time Cox’s top has landed him within the headlines.
In 2020, a fan took a photograph of the again of Cox’s head nearly fully blocking the courtroom — or no less than the elements that matter most — at Rod Laver Arena.
Asked if it occurs quite a bit, Cox mentioned it occurs a good bit.
“Being 6’11”, sadly that is simply a part of it. I can’t do something about it,” Cox mentioned. “I want to go and experience things. Sometimes there’s got to some unlucky fans behind me.”
Cox was additionally questioned about how he’s going to search out the followers who sat behind him — revealing he had truly discovered them.
He mentioned he’s going to organise tickets and take them into the rooms after the sport “and give them a unique experience and apologise for having zero view during the whole Taylor Swift concert.
Project host Sam Taunton then quipped: “First they miss Taylor Swift and now have to endure a Collingwood game.”
Cox replied that they had been truly Collingwood followers.
Waleed Aly, a famous Richmond fan mentioned: “In that case, they don’t deserve to watch Taylor Swift being a Collingwood fan.”
Cox had been doing the media rounds on Tuesday, telling Nova 100’s Ben, Liam & Belle, Cox mentioned he hoped to get an aisle seat so he might transfer out of the best way.
“No! Middle of the row, no options whatsoever,” he mentioned.
He added he needed to apologise after the present for “being a jerk and jumping around like an absolute idiot for the last three and a half hours in front of you” – however the ladies behind him had already gone.
“I feel so bad with them sitting behind me after paying all the money and everything else and then probably not even seeing Taylor Swift,” he mentioned.
It comes after some complaints from these seated on the ground that they didn’t have nice views of Swift or the stage, which is positioned at one finish of the stadium.
As one lady with three younger kids lamented to news.com.au throughout Friday’s present: “We would’ve been better staying home and watching a live stream (of the concert).”
Meanwhile, one other element at Melbourne’s MCG is leaving Swift’s American fanbase in disbelief, with many asking the place the 96,000 followers who attended every present parked their vehicles.
The MCG is ringed by parkland on three sides and serviced by two main close by practice stations – a really completely different set-up from many main American live performance venues, that are surrounded by a number of large parking heaps.
Source: www.news.com.au
