Andrew Voss (born 7 September 1966) is an Australian

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commentator and radio and television personality who works for

Fox League Fox League is an Australian subscription television channel dedicated to screening rugby league (both domestic and international) matches and related programming. It is owned by Fox Sports Pty Limited and is available throughout Australia on Foxt ...

. Voss previously worked for the

SKY Network Television Sky Network Television Limited, more commonly known as Sky, is a New Zealand broadcasting company that provides pay television services via satellite television, satellite, media streaming services and broadband internet services. It is also a ...

as a commentator, and at the

Nine Network The Nine Network (stylised 9Network, commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by parent company Nine Entertainment and is one of five main free-to-air television netw ...

, including ''

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'', ''

NRL Footy Show ''The Footy Show'' was an Australian sports variety television program covering professional rugby league in Australia. It was shown on the Nine Network and aired for 25 seasons. For the final season in 2018, the show was hosted by journalist Eri ...

'', '' The Sunday Footy Show'' and ''

The Sunday Roast ''The Sunday Roast'' was an Australian sports talk show that dealt with the issues in the National Rugby League. Created by sports presenter Andrew Voss, it aired on the Nine Network, first screening in 2005, beginning at and leading into ''The ...

''.

Career

In the 1990s and 2000s, Voss hosted several of the Nine Network's rugby league-related TV shows. He began appearing on '' The Footy Show'' in 1997 as a regular guest, starring in different sketches and in group discussions. In time, he was the Nine's Network's number-two rugby league caller behind

Ray Warren Raymond Warren OAM (born 11 June 1943) is a retired Australian sports commentator, known for his coverage of televised professional rugby league matches on the Nine Network. He is known as the "Voice of Rugby League", and called 99 State of ...

. In 2012, he was demoted to the number-three caller behind

Ray Hadley Raymond Morris Hadley OAM (born 27 September 1954) is an Australian talkback radio broadcaster and a rugby league football commentator for Channel Nine. He presents 2GB Sydney's Monday to Friday morning show, and leads the Continuous Call T ...

. This occurred after Hadley strongly and personally criticised Voss for jokingly questioning on-air the likeness of a statue of Warren erected in Warren's hometown of

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. Voss then sued Hadley for defamation, and the matter was settled out of court. It was revealed in 2011 that Voss had had a long-running feud with Hadley, dating back to 1994 when they both worked at Sydney radio station 2UE. Voss has covered various other sporting events, including the

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, Melbourne Commonwealth Games and the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. He travelled to

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in 2012 to cover the

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. In 2006, Voss was the lead commentator on ''

Torvill and Dean's Dancing on Ice ''Torvill and Dean's Dancing on Ice'' was an Australian reality television series which was based on the original British version, '' Dancing on Ice''. The series premiered on the Nine Network on Tuesday, 11 July 2006 at , and involved celebri ...

.'' In 2009, Andrew was a fill-in sports presenter on the Nine Network's ''

'' between Mondays and Thursdays, in addition to presenting every Friday in place of

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. Also in 2009, Voss hosted ''

Australia's Greatest Athlete ''Australia's Greatest Athlete'' is an Australian television program that debuted in 2009. The first season was broadcast on the Nine Network and was hosted by Andrew Voss and Michael Slater, with Ricky Ponting as a sideline commentator. The sec ...

'' for the Nine Network, a program which screened on Saturday afternoons. He joined UK

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as the lead commentator for their coverage of the

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, telecast in Australia on

7mate 7mate is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, which was launched by the Seven Network on 25 September 2010. The channel contains sport and regular programs aimed primarily to a male audience, with programming drawn from a c ...

. In 2013, he also called the

New Zealand Warriors The New Zealand Warriors are a professional rugby league football club based in Auckland, New Zealand that competes in the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership and is the League's only team from outside Australia. They were formed in 1995 as ...

' games for Sky Sport in New Zealand. Voss has made the term "let's have some fun" his own. He mainly uses the term at the start of most matches. From 2018, Voss started a show called ''The Fan'' on Fox League, which runs on Tuesday nights.

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ICMI profile
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