Tag: Grant Hackett
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Hackett’s wife Candice Alley under investigation for shoplifting
Candice Alley, the singer and estranged wife of swimming star Grant Hackett, is under police investigation for allegedly shoplifting children’s designer clothing from a posh Melbourne boutique. The claim is that she took four items from a Brighton shop on June 30 and five items from a Port Melbourne shop on July 1. Among the…
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Stilnox ‘cost Grant Hackett gold’ at Beijing 2008, coach Cotterell reveals
Grant Hackett’s former coach Denis Cotterell has no doubt the controversial sleeping medication Stilnox cost the 1500 freestyle champion his third and historic Olympic gold medal. Read The Australian According to Cotterell, Hackett had slipped into an adaptation phase after swimming two astonishing broken 1500m time trials at the Australian team’s staging camp in Singapore…
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Hackett admits abuse of Stilnox at the end of his swimming career
Olympic champion Grant Hackett battled a “heavy” reliance on the controversial sleeping pill Stilnox towards the end of his swimming career, an investigation has revealed. The pills were administered by swimming officials during meets, including the Olympics. “At one point they scared me,” he said. “They’re evil. The overuse was because of a shoulder injury…
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Hackett’s 60 Minutes interview meets harsh criticism
Lots of Australian articles today, asking for instance “Grant Hackett is ’embarrassed’. But is he sorry?“, “Does Grant Hackett deserve sympathy and forgiveness? Or does he deserve an Oscar?“, “Remorse or damage control” and “What’s Grant Hackett not telling us?“. With tough talk on Twitter too, apparently it didn’t go well.
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Grant Hackett: Blame me, not the booze
32-year-old Grant Hackett has told Channel 9’s 60 Minutes that it was the breakdown of his marriage to Candice Alley, and not excessive drinking, that had caused him to snap. Read Adelaide Now and see The Telegraph. “The reality was it wasn’t going well and I kept those cards really close to my chest and…
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Wife tries to stop Grant Hackett’s TV chat tomorrow
Grant Hackett’s estranged singer wife brought in lawyers to try to stop Hackett appearing on Channel 9’s 60 Minutes after learning of the interview last week, friends said. Both sides are understood to have faced off on Thursday over whether the interview could go ahead, with Nine since being closely guarded over what will appear…
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Grant Hackett to talk about fall from grace on 60 minutes
Sunday night June 24th, Grant Hackett will publicly address the night he trashed his apartment, the collapse of his marriage and the allegations that he physically abused his wife. Read Herald Sun here and here, and here where Candice Alley’s family says Australia’s Olympic team chief should be ashamed of his support of Hackett.
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Grant Hackett’s father: “He is a dickhead, but I love him”
Australian media is again filled with details about the breakdown of Grant Hackett’s and Candice Alley’s marriage, the incidents at home last fall and at the Logies this spring apparently decisive for their separation. His retired policeman dad calls him a ‘dickhead’ but dismisses reports that he had thrown his wife against a window, “he…
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Hackett dumped by children’s anti-violence charity
Swimming great Grant Hackett has been sacked from his role as ambassador for the children’s anti-violence charity the Alannah and Madeline Foundation after more damaging allegations about his marriage break-up emerged. Read The Sydney Morning Herald, official statement on amf.org.au and see The Telegraph. VIDEO: Grant Hackett’s destructive outburst