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Koby Abberton reveals his massive SAS Australia payday

<p dir="ltr">Koby Abberton has revealed how much he was paid by Channel 7 to appear on season two of SAS Australia, bluntly telling the hosts of Moonman in the Morning that he was paid $100,000.</p> <p dir="ltr">That makes Abberton one of the<span> </span><a rel="noopener" href="https://oversixty.com.au/finance/money-banking/sam-burgess-huge-sas-australia-salary-revealed" target="_blank">highest-paid stars on the show,</a><span> </span>only earning less than Sam Burgess, and being paid the same amount as tennis star Mark Philippoussis.</p> <p dir="ltr">Model Erin Holland, 32, is earning between $60,000 and $80,000 while footballer Heath Shaw, 35, actress Isabelle Cornish, 27, and athlete John Steffensen, 39, tennis player Alicia Molik, 38, are on around the same amount.</p> <p dir="ltr">In the next rung, singer Pete Murrary, 51, athlete Jana Pittmann, 38, actor Dan Ewing, 36, runner Jessica Peris, 31, ironman Jett Kenny, 27, volleyball player Kerri Pottharst, 56, and socialite Brynne Edelsten are estimated to be being paid between $50,000 and $70,000.</p> <p dir="ltr">At the very bottom of the ladder is former Australian Labor Party member Emma Husar, 41, who is earning just $25,000. Meanwhile Manu Feildel, 47, will go without a pay day because his appearance is likely part of his contract at Channel Seven.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr">Recruit #2 Koby Abberton well and truly left his mark on the course and departs knowing he made the right decision for himself. đŸ’Ș <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SASAustralia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SASAustralia</a> <a href="https://t.co/VGklwou1QP">pic.twitter.com/VGklwou1QP</a></p> — SAS Australia on 7 (@sasaustralia) <a href="https://twitter.com/sasaustralia/status/1443380081590689795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2021</a></blockquote> <p dir="ltr">Abberton rose to fame as a member of Maroubra’s ‘Bra Boys’, culminating in the release of the 2007 documentary<span> </span><em>Bra Boys</em>, produced by Russell Crowe and directed by Koby’s brother, Sunny, and Macario De Souza.</p> <p dir="ltr">He also shared with the Moonman in the Morning team the reason for his repeated questions about how much tennis star Philippoussis made, saying, "When I grew up, the only way out of my area was to be a sportsman. You were either a surfer, a football player or a fighter, and that's what we banked on.</p> <p dir="ltr">"These days these kids are constantly on Instagram, or Facebook or TikTok or all this garbage. They all seem to want to be Instagram stars, and honestly it's just garbage."</p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: SAS Australia</em></p>

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Jana Pittman punches Alicia Molik right off the show

<p>A confronting exercise on SAS Australia has seen celebrity recruits paired up for the vicious one-on-one battles, leaving one contender seriously injured.</p> <p>Brutal matches saw the stars fight each other as the rest of the group watched on until the ex-Special Forces soldiers told them they could stop.</p> <p>It ended with one recruit in hospital, and another walking away from the show.</p> <p><strong>Recruits must fight each other</strong></p> <p>In the second task of Monday night’s episode, the recruits had to test their physical and mental resilience in hand-to-hand combat.</p> <p>“You stand toe-to-toe at all times," said staff Ant Middleton. "This isn’t boxing. No f**king dancing around, no defending yourselves, the only form of defence is attack.</p> <p>“The only way you’re going to counter the violence, is with extreme violence."</p> <p>The first recruit up was former AFL player Heath Shaw. Asked to pick an opponent, he chose the biggest in the pack, ex-South Sydney Rabbitohs caption Sam Burgess, who eventually won the fight.</p> <p>The group was then asked to volunteer to fight surfer Koby Abberton, and five guys put raised their hands.<span> </span><em>Home and Away</em><span> </span>actor Dan Ewing was chosen to take on the Bra Boy surfer.</p> <p>Abberton came out the winner.</p> <p><strong>Recruits uncomfortable watching girls fight</strong></p> <p>In another alarming battle, the oldest recruit on the show, 55-year-old beach volleyball legend Kerri Pottharst, was paired with track athlete Jessica Peris, 28.</p> <p>Jess clearly overwhelmed the Olympic gold medallist who kept turning her back.</p> <p>Singer Bonnie Anderson teared up watching the fight, while Abberton was visibly upset, commenting, “Don’t hit too hard on her face.”</p> <p>He even lunged forward during the fight, wanting to intervene, and whispering, “Stop.”</p> <p>“My life has been around violence,” he admitted. “Violence towards women, that’s my mum’s life. Girls are strong people.</p> <p>“I have a five-year-old, I don’t want him to grow up the way I grew up, I don’t want him to see that sort of violence”.</p> <p><strong>Pete Murray injured</strong></p> <p>Next up, former tennis player Mark Philippoussis went against 51-year-old Pete Murray.</p> <p>They slugged it out as the directing staff chanted, “come on,” “keep fighting,” “punch straight.”</p> <p>Suddenly Murray dropped to the ground. He had painfully dislocated his elbow.</p> <p>The recruits looked uneasy as he held his arm in pain.</p> <p>“What are you staring at, this is what its all about,” DS Jason ‘Foxy’ fox said. “Get your head in the game, if you don’t like watching it, f**k off.”</p> <p>Murray asked the on-site doctor if he could pop it back into place, but was told he needed hospital and X-rays.</p> <p>Given the seriousness of the injury, he was medically withdrawn from the course.</p> <p>Middleton then addressed the rest of the recruits.</p> <p>“I told you, you’re going to get cuts, bruisers, stitches, breaks, it’s what I said at the beginning, this is not a f**king game,” he says.</p> <p>“If you don’t like it, give me your numbers, grab your kit and f**k off.”</p> <p><strong>Alicia Molik withdraws</strong></p> <p>The last fight of the night was dual Olympian Jana Pittman against tennis champion Alicia Molik.</p> <p>During the fight, Pittman was more of the aggressor and Molik stepped back and turned away.</p> <p>She then fully walked away and Middleton asked if she wanted to quit. She handed over her number, becoming the sixth to voluntarily withdraw from the course.</p> <p>“I just got scared,” she admitted. “I thought I’d be a good fighter, I tried my best."</p>

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Celebrity cheater named and shamed

<p><em>Image: Channel 7</em></p> <p>Koby Abberton was sensationally caught out cheating during a challenge on Wednesday night’s episode of SAS Australia.</p> <p>The 42-year-old was one of Sydney’s most notorious ‘Bra Boys’, did only 15 push-ups during an assault course when he was instructed to do 30. This was discovered after watching the footage back later.</p> <p>Initially, he denied any wrongdoing in front of the rest of the recruits, chief instructor Ant Middleton later pulled Koby into his office and showed him the evidence.</p> <p>“I’m going to ask you a simple question, do you think we’re c**ts? We’re certainly not c**ts so please don’t treat us like one”.</p> <p>“What I’ve got on this laptop is so blatant, that your integrity has come into question with us”.</p> <p>After Koby was shown the footage, he still denied that he had meant to cheat, replying “I didn’t mean it. No way. I just wouldn’t have cheated that much. But the evidence is there and I’ll take full responsibility”.</p> <p>He went on to tell the rest of the recruits they were all set to be ‘tortured’ later that evening because of his failure to complete 15 more reps.</p> <p>“That’s a lot. That’s not like a mental blank, that’s a complete f**k up. I’ve had enough of Koby” ironman Jett Kenny said to fellow celebrities.</p> <p>Earlier in the day, recruits were asked to rank themselves from most to least strongest to see who would first go on the assault course in question. Koby ranked himself as the strongest, running to the front behind Jett.</p> <p>“I'm a confident man. I'm good-looking, strong. I'm in this fit stage, I'm walking around with a six-pack all ripped and feeling great,” Koby confidently announced.</p> <p>After finishing the course, he looked over to Jett and said: "How did you go? I smashed that one. Did you smash it?"</p> <p>Upon being caught out, Koby later made a second announcement to the recruits - which left many rolling their eyes in shock.</p> <p>“I feel pretty bad about this whole situation, but I want you to know - they're basing my whole integrity on 15 push-ups in front of a camera,” he said.</p> <p>“I promise I can do as many push-ups as all of you together. I just f**ked up, I counted wrong and I didn't keep counting. I didn't mean to do that, but I promise I did that faster than every one of you”.</p> <p>“Especially you, yeah?” he added, pointing at Jett.</p> <p>It was later revealed that Ant and the DS team didn't punish any of the recruits for Koby's actions, because 'sometimes the threat of torture' is just as bad.</p>

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