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Veteran sports broadcaster Mark Howard has revealed helium was approached astir hosting the reboot of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, 1 of Australia's astir iconic tv programs.
Speaking connected Triple M, Howard confirmed speculation that he'd been successful the moving to instrumentality implicit from long-time big Eddie McGuire.
'That is true,' Howard admitted successful effect to co-host Nathan Brown's probing.
'This is not thing I was expecting, [to beryllium asked] Nathan.'
With much than 2 decades of acquisition crossed sports broadcasting, Howard's emergence successful Australian media has made him a acquainted look and dependable crossed aggregate platforms.
He presently works with Fox Cricket, Fox Footy, and Triple M, covering everything from AFL and cricket to MotoGP and the Australian Open.
Mark 'Howie' Howard has go a large sanction successful sports commentary, hosting a scope of shows crossed galore networks
Howard was successful enactment to go the caller look of Who Wants to beryllium a Millionaire, which was made celebrated by Eddie McGuire for 25 years
Howard is besides the creator and big of the fashionable podcast The Howie Games, wherever helium interviews apical sporting personalities from Australia and abroad.
His vocation began connected the Formula One World Tour earlier expanding into large events similar the Olympics and Commonwealth Games.
The quality of his attack comes aft Eddie McGuire stepped down from the relation pursuing a 25-year relation with the franchise.
McGuire, who began hosting Millionaire successful 1999, gave his blessing for the reboot and reportedly encouraged producers to spell with a 'left-field' prime for the adjacent host.
McGuire's tenure included immoderate iconic TV moments, including Australia's archetypal million-dollar winner, Rob 'Coach' Fulton, successful 2005.
Despite the opportunity, Howard made it wide helium wouldn't beryllium taking the job.
'I emotion moving astatine Fox and I've got capable connected my sheet determination truthful unluckily that's not thing we'll beryllium pursuing. I'm afloat committed to Fox.'
His Friday Huddle co-hosts were speedy to gag astir the missed opportunity.
Rob 'Coach' Fulton celebrates becoming the archetypal idiosyncratic to triumph the cardinal dollar prize connected the Australian mentation of the show
Brown dubbed him 'our generation's Richie Benaud,' suggesting the determination could person marked different defining section successful his career.
Jason Dunstall chimed in, saying, 'They can't clasp you back, you're a marque that's expanding. It'll payment everyone due to the fact that your marque volition beryllium bigger.'
Howard's sanction being floated follows a inclination of cricketers making the palmy leap to tv presenting.
Former Australian accelerated bowler Mike Whitney became a household sanction hosting Who Dares Wins and Gladiators. He besides fronted the long-running Sydney Weekender.
Similarly, England's Andrew Flintoff moved into entertainment, co-hosting the globally fashionable car amusement Top Gear with Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris.
Flintoff's humour and charisma brought a caller vigor to the program, winning implicit fans who had ne'er seen him with a bat oregon ball.
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