Details emerge after Erin Molan quits Channel Nine for rival network
Popular presenter Erin Molan has quit Channel Nine after nearly 10 years working as a sports reporter and rugby league host for the network.
It was announced on Friday that Molan is leaving the Nine Network to take up a role with Sky News and the Daily Telegraph.
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Molan will be the new Sky News Primetime Contributor, while also writing a fortnightly column for the Telegraph.
“We are delighted to welcome Erin to Sky News,” Chief executive officer Paul Whittaker said.
“Erin is a highly respected broadcaster and journalist who fiercely advocates on issues of national importance.
"Her insights will add new context for our discussion and opinion programs.”
Daily Telegraph editor Ben English said: “I am absolutely thrilled that Erin is joining our stellar team of agenda setting columnists.
“Erin is dialled in to the issues that matter to our readers, and her sharp and provocative insights will no doubt get all of Sydney and NSW talking.”
Molan will reportedly continue in her job on 2DayFm radio.
Molan was supposed to read the Nine News 6pm sports bulletin on Friday and Saturday, however it was agreed she would not do so after word of her resignation was made public.
Since joining the Nine Network in 2012, Molan has hosted the NRL Footy Shows on Thursday nights and Sunday afternoons, as well as anchoring coverage of Friday Night Footy.
Erin Molan endures tumultuous year in 2021
The popular presenter announced in September that she'd split from her long-term partner and father of the couple's only child.
Molan had been engaged to homicide detective Sean Ogilvy since 2017, with the couple welcoming daughter Eliza together in 2018.
However, Molan confirmed the sad split after months of rumours about the relationship.
“Some personal news. Sean and I have separated,” Molan posted on Instagram.
"We are entirely committed to co-parenting our three-year-old daughter, who is the most important person in the world to both of us.
“Any breakdown of a family unit is incredibly difficult and we ask for privacy at this time – especially given the private approach that we have taken to our relationship."
She said not being able to see Eliza every day is the hardest part about the breakup.
“It’s certainly an adjustment. You go from being with the most important person in your life 24/7 to then having to share your child and that’s really, really tough," Molan told 9Honey.
“But we’re both really blessed in that she is our priority and always will be and whatever is best for her, we do.
"And that is something I never have to worry about and something he never has to worry about.”
The 39-year-old said she didn't think she'd "ever get used to not having her with me every night".
“But I know wherever she is, with me or with Sean, she is so loved and adored, more than life itself and that’s all I care about," she added.
Molan has also been locked in a defamation battle with Daily Mail Australia, suing the publication over one article and two tweets that refer to her saying "hooka looka mooka hooka fooka" on air in May 2020.
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