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Edwina Bartholomew, Hamish McLachlan to host Australian Spartan.

Seven settles on its hosting duo for not Ninja Warrior.

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Nine has Rebecca Maddern, Ben Fordham & ‘Freddie Flintoff’ hosting Australian Ninja Warrior.

Seven will now have Edwina Bartholomew & Hamish McLachlan fronting Australian Spartan for Seven. While Bartholomew is best known for her Sunrise & Dancing with the Stars roles, McLachlan hosts AFL Game Day for Seven

The series will film in Brisbane next month. The Seven production, by both Matchbox Pictures & Eureka Productions, will see teams of 3 battling a massive obstacle course.

Bartholomew told News Corp, “We will be filming Spartan in the evenings so it will be topsy turvy on my usual routine. It will definitely be a fun couple of weeks,” she said of the show she described as “more industrial, more sleek and just bigger. It is on a massive scale.”

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  4. I think Edwina is far more suited to a roll like this, she is talented, funny, intelligent, has a great personality and attractive, I find everything about her really great, far better than some other female presenters.

  5. Hamish McLachlan from Seven Sport? Odd choice. Though he is a natural at improvising, interviewing and occasionally quick witted. Perhaps a sign of where either he and/or the network want or see him in the future. Though he’s been hosting AFL Game Day and the Australian Open and regular at the Olympics since 2008, it’s he’s inclusion to their AFL coverage in 2012 that’s made him shine.

  6. So Hamish begins and leaves a failed and if the rumours are true very expensive breakfast show on SEN within months and 5 minutes later gets a plum tv role. How does that happen? Is it his surname?

    1. Is it a real surprise that Hamish McLachlan left SEN Breakfast at the end of the AFL season this year (which is the main focus of SEN as a station) because he was unable to commit to the station during the 2018 AFL season??

      Hamish couldn’t commit to SEN Breakfast for 2018 due to commitments with Channel 7 wanting him to be a key presenter in their Commonwealth games coverage and step up more with his AFL TV duties.

      Therefore it makes sense that Channel 7 utilises one of their own presenters who now has additional ‘free time’ over the summer to host a program like this during his down-time.

      1. I heard what the spin doctors spun about his departure but if SEN breakfast was a ratings success do you think he would’ve left so abruptly?
        Whilst I agree the afl is the main focus of SEN, whoever put together the breakfast team failed to get that you can’t just talk afl for 3 hours. You need to break it up with other sports and some non sports segments. You need people in team that have a good overall sports knowledge and know at least two sports well. Instead they put together 3 people who only know one sport and that’s it. It was doomed from the beginning. I wonder if they’ve learnt their lesson.
        Generally if someone is part of something that’s deemed a failure, they don’t get such a plum job so easily. It just looks odd.

      1. With presenters having both tv and radio presenters I think it doesn’t hurt to explore it from time to time.
        When you compare how Osher Gunsberg left his radio program for his tv commitments and all that fanfare and the abrupt way Hamish left his radio program for similar reasons it just makes you think.
        I get its not a radio site but thanks for letting me talk for a minute about where sen breakfast went wrong.

    3. Congratulations. You have managed to debase your usual snipe at Seven by disparaging the female presenter. Clearly, in your eyes, she was simply hired for her looks with no regard for her skills.

      This is the sort of sexist BS to which women in the entertainment industry are far too regularly subjected. Your ill-considered comment is particularly mistimed given recent events.

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