[31], Lewis has been married to Jacqueline since 1984, and together they have three children - two sons - Mitchell, Lincoln and a daughter, Jamie-Lee. Jamie-Lee is a water polo player who is currently on a scholarship to the Queensland Academy of Sport who has represented Australia, and is the first[citation needed] deaf person in the world to ever represent her country's national hearing team. hearing, He achieved the greatest honour in Rugby League: the captaincy of his country, but it was his feats as Queensland skipper and playmaker in State of Origin that he achieved legendary status. Although Wally has not revealed his exact figure of net worth, looking at his career, it is assumed that his net worth can be in six digit figure. In his first season as coach, he led the team, which include rep player Bob Linder, Colin Scott, and Gene Miles, to a 14-6 victory against Brothers in BRL Grand Final at Lang Park. In their last match under Lewis as captain-coach, the Gold Coast defeated Penrith, thus denying the Panthers a place in the finals play-offs. Shelly and Bianca discuss. Following his retirement from the sport, Lewis became a television sports presenter, first on Seven Nightly News Brisbane,[43] before moving to the higher-rating Nine News Queensland where he remains today. The name Wally Lewis is synonymous with State of Origin and Queensland Rugby League and continues to be an inspiration to future generations of footballers. Initially, Lewis had been reluctant to sign with Wakefield after having played both club and representative football almost non-stop since the start of 1982, including the Kangaroo Tour and Queensland's three game tour of England at the end of 1983, when he came to the attention of Wakefield. [30], In December 2009 Lewis was inducted into the Queensland Sports Hall of Fame. He played 31 Origin games (30 as captain) and a record 8 Man of the Match awards over a 12-year period. While his career at Trinity, he got paid $1425.31 per game, which was world-record wages of that time. In 1978, Lewis joined and started playing in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership with Fortitude Valley. Controversy reared in the 1990 semi-final victory over Manly-Warringah when Bennett left Lewis on the bench, even though Lewis was desperate to prove his fitness before the upcoming 1990 Kangaroo tour, which he was eventually ruled out of by Kangaroos team doctor Nathan Gibbs, who ruled him out despite specialist reports declaring his broken arm healed (after recovering from his World Cup broken arm, Lewis had broken it for a second time during the season in a Round 13 encounter with St. George at Kogarah). WATCH THE VIDEO. A woman has revealed the surprising photo that exposed her cheating ex-boyfriend. Regarding his personal life, Lewis is married and shares three children with his wife. Examples include promotions for XXXX beer and Burger King. “I know that I want to be remembered for much more than my football career.”. Following the successful 1986 Kangaroo tour which the Australians went through undefeated to earn themselves the nickname The Unbeatables, 1985 Australian coach Terry Fearnley wrote an article for Rugby League Week that was highly critical of Lewis' captaincy based on his experiences during the 1985 New Zealand tour. Lewis won another man-of-the-match award in the second game of the 1989 State of Origin series. The tour raged with selection controversy as for the opening game of the tour against Hull Kingston Rovers, Stanton chose Parramatta's Winfield Cup Grand Final winning halves Brett Kenny and Peter Sterling (though Lewis actually played from the bench), who went about cementing their selection for the first test. [38], Lewis is well known as a big fan of The Phantom comic series.[42]. Duration: 04:04 21/05/2020. He played overall 5 seasons for the Fortitude Valley playing total 135 games earning 16 points. His form for Queensland in both the two games played under the old residence system, and the one Origin game in which he scored one of four Qld tries, saw him selected to make his Test début for Australia in 1981, playing five-eighth in a 43–3 win over France at the SCG. [28], Following the souring of his relationship with the Broncos, Lewis was unwilling to move to Sydney for family reasons and in 1991, he joined the Gold Coast Seagulls and was appointed as captain by coach Malcolm Clift. Read about our editorial guiding principles and the standards ABC journalists and content makers follow. He was nicknamed “The King” and “The Emperor of Lang Park”. She stepped back from social media and moved in with her parents for two weeks, not just to aid her recovery but her mindset. The changes to the team proved to be a disaster as the Kiwis defeated a disjointed Australia 18–0. He coached the club for only 1 season recording 7 wins, 1 draw, and 36 losses. After winning the first two tests, Fearnley dropped four players from the team, all Queenslanders, in what Queensland Rugby League boss Senator Ron McAuliffe called a "Football Assassination". He then became the first Queenslander since Tom Gorman in 1929–30 to be named as captain for a Kangaroo tour. Alleged paedophile nurse continued working as police investigated, Parrot's cries of 'Anton! Lewis was the Broncos' top try-scorer in their first season and also later had the honor of scoring the club's first hat-trick. At the Australian team's first training session (at Lang Park), coach Frank Stanton wasn't impressed with Lewis' fitness after he lagged behind in a set of 400 metre runs, though it was reported that Lewis wasn't alone and only lock forward Ray Price had completed the runs without too much trouble. During the nightly news broadcast of 16 November 2006, Lewis previewed the sports segment but was not onscreen when the program returned from the commercial break, with newsreader Bruce Paige instead presenting the sports segment. A bronze statue of Wally was raised at the entrance to Lang Park. After receiving treatment, he bravely played on for a further 20 minutes, making a number of one armed tackles despite being an obvious target in defense. Walter James Lewis a.k.a. [13], In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, Wally Lewis was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for his role as a "sports legend". [48], Lewis is quoted as saying that "People come and ask me now about things (from his rugby league career) and I just don't remember them at all – that's absolutely frightening. Some sports stars struggle to navigate life after reaching the pinnacle in their chosen arena. In 2000, he was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for his contribution to Australia's international standing in the sport of rugby league. However this was refuted by ARL boss Ken Arthurson who said in a television interview that Gibbs was under instruction to give Lewis every possible chance of passing the medical and that if he (Gibbs) thought that there was any chance of Lewis being fit before the first test at Wembley Stadium, then he should clear him to tour. Lewis and teammate Sam Backo also joined Ken Irvine as the only Australian players to score a try in each test of an Ashes series. During the game Lewis had a chance to score his first test try. During the 2007 season at the Broncos' 20-year anniversary celebration, the club announced a list of the 20 best players to play for them to date which included Lewis. Politics [8][9] Lewis went on to be named in the halves in the Kangaroos' Team of the Century. The following year, internal problems between the Seagulls club board and its head coach Des Morris saw Lewis installed as Captain-coach of Wynnum-Manly. “I had a serious health scare before I was diagnosed with epilepsy in 2006 and it made me seriously think about my own mortality. Wally Lewis has also appeared in numerous advertisements during and after his football playing career. News In 1984 Lewis captained an Oceania team's 54–4 victory over an Anglo-French selection in an exhibition match Paris, returning to Brisbane after the match to continue playing for Wynnum-Manly. His other son, Mitchell is a presenter on the Nova FM radio station, Nova 106.9 in Brisbane as the station's sports reporter and assistant producer on the Ash, Kip, Luttsy & Susie breakfast show. He became a commentator for television coverage of the sport. She has represented Australia and is the very first deaf person to represent Australia’s national hearing team. ", This page was last edited on 29 October 2020, at 06:30. Refer to our helpful FAQ section for any problems you might be experiencing.
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