The spinner who shagged me: why we love Warnie

Vaunted says:

06:04am | 14/02/11

Comments to this article may be edited or omitted on the grounds of being unlawful, libellous, slanderous or outright outrageous. I must say though, while Warnie’s new choppers in particular have an unearthly glow about them, he must know something the rest of us don’t/

TChong says:

06:08am | 14/02/11

“a strange thing happened…,”
Dont agree that the public is listening for the bed a rockin’, that seems to be more of a fixation of the gutter press - gals mags etc.
“The ball of the century”, with poor old Mike Gatting, with his (understandably)  stunned mullet reaction has to be one the great moments in sport.
Most importantly, Warney managed to beat the impediment of being a Victorian.

Lou says:

06:44am | 14/02/11

Warnie is an idiot .. and the match at hand? Well Vain and Vainer, Dumb and Dumber about sums up the Liz affair.

Jade says:

06:59am | 14/02/11

Um I don’t love Warney, quiet the opposite… I am not a cricket fan and could not care less what him, his ex wife or any of his future love interests are doing.  The fact that the media seem to think this is a big story in Australian shows me that some people need some help.

BobM says:

07:27am | 14/02/11

The media love Warnie. The rest of us couldn’t give a shit about him.

David says:

07:33am | 14/02/11

Shane Warne would be nothing without those with no lives to follow his dumb arse around.

If Shane Warne’s a great ambassador (as so many seem to think), then what does that say about how we think of ourselves as a country?

So sad.

Lucius says:

07:37am | 14/02/11

The public dont give a crap about Warne - it’s the media shoving him down our throats - the media are the ones who have stories about him as headlines - while most of the comments on the stories are negative.  It’s you media who are obsessed with him, not us.

Old Clive says:

07:39am | 14/02/11

Did he do a good performance and will you let him do it again, or was it wishful thinking. Not a really good head.

Tubesteak says:

07:48am | 14/02/11

I don’t care that much but Warnie, Woods and Sheen seem to have a special way of making themselves happy and excelling at it.

More power to them!

Colin says:

08:37am | 14/02/11

Why we love Warnie??  Did anyone ask us?  I think he’s an obnoxious d*ckhead, and the media spends far too much time focused on our “Warwick Capper: The Next Generation”.

hot tub political machine says:

08:40am | 14/02/11

So your saying Woods is Dorian Gray and Warnie is Wotton? Who is Basil?

Gregg says:

08:42am | 14/02/11

There are always going to be those like some posting above and probably below that have no great feelings for Warnie and whilst I myself am one who has no great particular love for the guy other than that he was a fine cricketer and may even still be able to perform in that Indian money league, I reckon what Warnie gets his love from is that it has been a certain charisma he has developed in the way he lives life.
My sympathies to Simone for what she has had to put up with but he still loves his kids and his kids still have a love for him as their dad and that’s great.
Fortunately, Warnie has obviously made sufficient money from cricket to live his lifestyle and there being those that will use him for promoting this and that, he’ll probably continue on making money for some time yet and Liz H will no doubt help that.
It is not all going to Blackjack tournaments either, at which he apparently has a reasonable proficiency at for he does have a charity organisation and lends his name to good causes, something we like to see in someone who has made good.
Above all, when I look at Warnie, I’m reminded of Cyndie Lauper and ” Girls just want to have fun ” and Warnie is right up there with wanting to have fun too and if it is with the girls, all the better it would seem for him.

One way or another, people love to see someone having fun if it is in an open, friendly and non violent way.
If it means there’s going to be a little bit of idiot in it too along the way, that’s sufferable and hopefully Warnie himself will not suffer too much in the longer term and Simone can still find happiness.

And isn’t it far better to think about what Warnie might be up to or not, what sort of a performer Liz might think he is or vice versa rather than the Julia show.

Tiger says:

08:42am | 14/02/11

@ BobM. Spot on.
I just do not get what everyone sees in him. No one I know finds him remotely attractive. And this article still doesn’t explain it. One of the great mysteries in the tapestry of life, I guess.

Pork says:

08:46am | 14/02/11

I love him.  LOVE him.  Sure the recent revalation that he hounded a disinterested married woman was a bit disappointing BUT that was the first thing.  He beat all comers.  He was never beaten.  He was fascinating, enthralling, compelling, the best at his art - arguably ever.  These are characteristics most of the detractors above are unlikely to possess.
He represents me.  He is of my generation.  We were raised on tales of Lillee and Marsh causing havoc, Doug Walters and Ian Chappell making trouble.  The great aussie larrikin.  We deified them but now lambast Shane for being created in their image?
But here is my central praise for Shane:  He is an ANZAC.  Superb in the trenches but appalling out of them.  Now before you get on your indignation suits, hit “caps lock” and start trotting out the bizarre and misguided saintly ANZAC image go actually read your history - I have.  They robbed, looted, assaulted and god knows what else across europe, the middle east and north africa.  And they were a large part of why Australia became so obsessed with the sporting arena.  They thought, in large part, that it was a much better place to display the worth of a nations people than on the barbed wire, in front of machine guns for reasons that were poor at best.
I wish he was still playing.  Him and his comrades like Waugh and Border never gave up.  Shane beat the Poms on all occassions bar one - and he nearly managed it all by himself that time.  And then he goes out with their women!!!  Onya Shane, you are welcome at my place anytime.

brian ronan says:

08:57am | 14/02/11

The world needs to forget he ever “happened”.
He is just a younger version of Warwick Capper, i.e.  another total tosser that the media thinks we care about. Capper still manages to pop up every now and then, so I guess the media will follow Warne around for many years to come too?

This is reality TV, that apparently we love, and can’t get enough of. This tosser is no better than Snooki !

Get some real news!

nossy says:

09:01am | 14/02/11

If I were a woman Daniela I wouldnt want to be shagged by Warnie - who knows where his “John Thomas” has been !  hahahhhhhhhhhh

iansand says:

09:03am | 14/02/11

Warne is Like Home & Away.  It is sort of reassuring that it is still on.  You know the same old same old is still happening, and you drop in once a year, usually accidentally, for that little glimmer of reassurance. We are too embarrassed to admit publicly to watching.  In Warne’s case, it is the perpetual bogan still being a bogan in his own personal soap opera.

Brad Coward says:

09:13am | 14/02/11

Big deal !  He thinks and sends texts with the same implement.  In Warnie’s case that counts as multi-skilling.

Tom says:

09:22am | 14/02/11

“..we’ll keep loving him.”
You might!

Tim says:

09:33am | 14/02/11

We like Warnie in the same way we slow down and gork at car accidents and are thankful it’s not us.

He follows Saints says:

09:42am | 14/02/11

Well I love Warnie purely because of the ball of the century and the look on gattings face.the rest of it is his business, if he upsets all the selectively indigent hypocrites the wowsers and the tut tutters he is to be congratulated

Dave says:

09:45am | 14/02/11

I think its becasue he was really good at Leg spin bowling

Gregg says:

09:48am | 14/02/11

Talking of huge, we could all have a laugh about Apophis provided by Jason on http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-i-know-it-and-so-what/?from=scroller&pos=6&referrer=article&link=text

Wonder whether Liz gets a giggle with the scaled down 2.2 cm version that Warnie might call Ipopitin and for how long!

Ross says:

09:50am | 14/02/11

Hold on a moment - just who loves Warne? I have just done a quick straw poll of people around the office. Did not find one that thought Warne’s antics were so loveable blah blah blah. He has shown himself up to be nothing but a womanising dirtbag, getting caught out playing away from home yet again not long after his cricket retirement, while he was in the midst (very publicly) of trying to convince his wife that he had changed, blah blah blah. What is more, his children are now old enough to be seeing what’s going on with their dad. Poor bloody kids.

Who gives a flying fruit bat’s fundamental that he is sneaking around with Liz Hurley? They’re both supposedly unattached now or at least separated, aren’t they? I couldn’t care less about his antics - until the media get onto them and start making him into a papparzzi-worthy ‘celebrity’.

A truly great cricketer in his day - no question. But now, a bloody tiresome has-been.

Simon says:

09:54am | 14/02/11

I agree with the sentiment, though I think there are more naysayers out there than the article would suggest.  Frankly I think they all need to remove the spanner from the rectum.  I can’t help but love Warnie and the manner in which he seems to get away with his escapades, all whilst flashing those unnatural pearly whites.

Aitch B says:

10:08am | 14/02/11

WGARA!!

CJ says:

10:45am | 14/02/11

Oh yeah, we LOVE him ...
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/shane-warne-cheats-on-elizabeth-hurley-report/story-e6frfmqi-1226005262925

Bob Walker says:

10:48am | 14/02/11

Warnie for PM!

Anthony Gill says:

11:04am | 14/02/11

I liked the article, although I always squirm when I see the phrase “begs the question” incorrectly used.

Dan says:

11:36am | 14/02/11

Are you sure it is not the Australian Media (rather than the public)  that loves Shane.

Mick says:

11:37am | 14/02/11

Good one Bob Walker, you would make a good deputy P M and killerbee would love to be on your frontbench too.
Pull the plug out when you leave and jump in.

Michael says:

11:42am | 14/02/11

If ‘we’ love him so much then how come his show lasted for less than five seconds?! I think it might be the spin doctors in the Warnie camp that has the trash journos froathing at the mouth for more without them realising that no one cares. The actions of the man show him to be a reprehensible human being who continues to put himself first above all others, including his kids who when they are old enough will have to go through the trauma of seeing their father with prostitutes, text messages to multiple women while still married, multiple affairs etc etc etc. Yes he is quality person who deserves to be in the limelight.

Jack says:

11:55am | 14/02/11

They have already tried that with Garret for minister, shame about the loss of money and lives. Guess Liebor can swap Garret for Warnie, since he couldn’t do worse.

Matt says:

11:57am | 14/02/11

He’s as pathetic as this article is… Perhaps a few people still like him because once upon a time he could throw a ball at some wickets, the majority though see him for what he is, and cashed up bogan is a nice start.  F*ckwit is a much better description. The guy’s so stupid he repeatedly gets caught out in ‘text scandals’ - learning to pick up the phone and talking is apparently beyond his mental limitations even after being caught out so many times..

Martin says:

12:02pm | 14/02/11

I can’t stand Shane Warne i think he’s a disgusting slob of man, whoever wrote that he is universally liked is living in dreamland, I mean if he wasn’t a cricket player and just your average guy next door then I doubt many woman would even give him a sideways glance becuase really in the looks department mr yer yer reminds me of the other guy you wish you hadnt said yes to going on a blind date with.

JennyF says:

12:07pm | 14/02/11

I hope he and Liz Hurley get married. Wouldn’t that be fun.

dexter says:

12:13pm | 14/02/11

If we never heard from or about him and his exploits again that would be too soon. With an article like this he will no doubt be contacting you too as well…...

Iolanda says:

12:28pm | 14/02/11

Please don’t include me either, I can’t stand Warne.  He is the biggest class-less bogan around. 
Can you imagine the media up roar if this was a women, she would be called a slut, why do the media put this wanka on a pedestal anyway. Very tacky.

Cynical Goat WA says:

12:29pm | 14/02/11

Warne needs to head to Just Spectacles. Obviously all those hair transplants have pierced his optical nerve. I mean if it came down to a straight pick between Liz and the porner, then Hurls wins hands down.  I mean the Jenna Jamieson wannabe’s got a head like Cliff Young’s gumboots.

unadult says:

12:39pm | 14/02/11

Correction we like people like Shane and Sheen, when they’re are who they are BUT do not hurt others.  Look at that text incident after the Hurley connection was revealed, Shane quickly went from Hero to a Zero in a lot of people’s eye.

Mario Muscles says:

12:45pm | 14/02/11

So, it makes sense Italians love Silvio B. many times more than this.
If Warne can keep it up into hisearly 80’s, then respect.
Bunga Bunga.

Jack says:

12:51pm | 14/02/11

Since when did we love him? Huh? poor little rich warne, Ha Ha.  may he disappear forever. please. he is an embarrassment. he obviously does not care about his family, nor does he pay enough tax. a complete TOSSER,

Jokesville and bogans. says:

12:54pm | 14/02/11

2 things ,,,,has this daniela been shagged by warnie to write this story or is shje hoping he will text her lewdly about having a WILD night with him.

she certainly sounds envious and slightly jealous , of the porn star or maybe the hurl.

The Masked Commenter says:

01:12pm | 14/02/11

We love Warnie? News to me

stephen says:

01:33pm | 14/02/11

wow some real haters here. what happened to live and let live.
I am generally too busy enjoying life to even hear about the antics of other people but when I do I like to have a good laugh and think thanks goodness thats not my ass getting into trouble.
you don’t have to approve of his lifestyle but it is his life and you haters should let him live it.

Jack says:

01:36pm | 14/02/11

Mysognists love that Warnie humiliates beautiful women

Tom Guesa says:

01:47pm | 14/02/11

Message to Daniela Elser.

Next time you write an article can you refrain from using the term “we” as in “why WE love Warnie” as it is an assumption that “we” being the majority love Warnie.

You dont speak for me nor most of the people that have left comments, so please stop insulting people’s intelligence with your assumptions.

A female says:

01:49pm | 14/02/11

Speak for your self. It is mostly the media that likes him for the fodder he gives them.

christine says:

01:50pm | 14/02/11

We all actually cannot stand Warnie. It’s media overload and 99% of the content about him is gossiping.

Stubo says:

02:05pm | 14/02/11

Warnie continues to give great hope to bald guys and bogans everywhere. His performance of public services is second-to-none. Keep up the good work Warnie, our GladWrap society needs you.

Nella says:

02:11pm | 14/02/11

‘Why we love Warnie so much’, it says on the home page.  You’ve got to be joking.  I think he’s a twit and I don’t personally know any woman who likes him.  Some of his women must be desperate for a bit of publicity and attention.

Nadine says:

02:12pm | 14/02/11

Well I love Warnie and I’m female.  Now I would never be involved with him, but let’s face it - we all know a ‘Warnie type’ from our youth - don’t we?  The guy who was always charming, got the girls, never seemed to get into trouble - oh come on - who cares what he does?  He’s a good cricket commentator and the rest of it is a laugh!!!  And as far as the tabloids go I rather hear about him than the other idiots like Lindsay Lohan, Brangelina, Britney etc etc.  At least he does it with bogan style and doesn’t pretend to be anything other than what he is!  I do wish he hadn’t changed the teeth though - now that’s a shame.  Yes Aussies will continue to follow his antics with favourable eyes!!

Paul Smith says:

03:08pm | 14/02/11

Warne is trash, always was always will be - only the media loves him - shows you the value of the media.

TDJ says:

03:43pm | 14/02/11

Give me a break. Only idiots would find any redeeming qualities in this cretinous moron.

Ron E Coote says:

04:14pm | 14/02/11

Warnie, what a bogan! A wealthy, selfish bogan. A great cricketer, and bloody frond of the mirror. What’s doing with the new fake teeth? They look like they came out of a cartoon!
A sad indictment on our society that ANYONE gives a toss what this bloke is up to when he’s not playing cricket; he is the epitome of the trash, pathetic losers who buy No Idea, and Women’s Monthly can’t seem to live their own sad, boring lives without knowing ALL about.
They deserve each other.

Ron E Coote says:

04:15pm | 14/02/11

You just can’t buy class…

Richard says:

04:39pm | 14/02/11

Shane Warne is the greatest living Australian.

Jealous haterz are gonna hate, nothing you can do about that.

But anyone who loves Australia and (therefore necessarily) loves cricket and has been alive for the last 20 years will all be unanimously of a mind that Warnie is an utter legend.

Everyone else’s opinions are not relevant in this matter, so keep it to yourselves, you worthless haterz!

T Man says:

04:40pm | 14/02/11

Ms Elser, you may love him, apparently Liz Hurly loves him after all these, so if you love him it’s not a big deal. But leave us out. As you can see, many don’t love him. I started not liking him for the way he played his cricket. and Now I hate him… lucky girl, you might get a text message from him soon….

mary monica roche says:

04:41pm | 14/02/11

Women are twice as good at spin than Tonight Show host Shane Warne.

As a Sultan Of Spin, Shane Warne spins only one ball at a time but the chicks spin his balls two at a time.

mary monica roche says:

04:44pm | 14/02/11

shane warne bowls the maiden overs but subtle variations of spin, accurate line and length, and sheer guile

Jim says:

04:49pm | 14/02/11

Fair dinkum.  The guy only has one redeeming feature - he’s the best spin bowler the world has ever seen.  Other than that you’d not want to know him.  A member of the Australian team who claimed that Warne was his best made turned up at a cricket presentation that I attended.  He claimed even then, some 15 years ago, that Warne was an idiot and would finish up screwing up his life.  Not a bad prognostication.

James Thurlow says:

05:16pm | 14/02/11

I think Shane Warne is a bogun of the first order and it shows - he has too much money behaves appallingly, is a disgrace to his wife and children and I personally cringe every time I here somthing ‘new’ about him.  I certainly don’t like him and your article does not speak for me!

mezzy says:

05:38pm | 14/02/11

I just can’t see what the attraction is.  If I saw him out and about he wouldn’t even get a second glance.

Geof says:

05:58pm | 14/02/11

I don’t want to be included in the we, I think cricket balls aren’t the only ones he plays with, as a commentator I thought he was alright, but I don’t want to keep hearing a blow by blow desciption of his love life.

OfficEagle says:

06:06pm | 14/02/11

Sorry! I used to like him, but i am now sick of him and his disgusting antics .

Thank God he was never Australian Cricket captain,( its the only thing Cricket Australia has got right in the last decade) How embarrasing would it be.
The quicker he goes away the better, feel sorry for his children having to put up his tweets I bet they are given heaps at school.
Liz, well she will have to learn the hard way, he will get set up cheating again that is for sure

Jared says:

06:22pm | 14/02/11

I recon it’s just Lara Bingle in a fat suit.

Been There says:

07:20pm | 14/02/11

I don’t like “Warnie” but Journo’s insist on writing about him and his exploits.

lace says:

07:26pm | 14/02/11

I think Shane Warne’s popularity is over rated . He is a liar ,cheat and hustler .
So obviously NOT everybody loves him .
The sooner the press forget about this idiot the better .

Danm says:

07:56pm | 14/02/11

Warnie should come to Hong Kong.

Bea Warned says:

08:03pm | 14/02/11

I think we all just like to see a fat bloke cop a break… If he was a chiseled Ken doll he’d be deemed a wanker

Katrina Smith says:

08:11pm | 14/02/11

I certainly don’t love him, but then there are plenty of bogans who might

mary says:

08:15pm | 14/02/11

All you in favour of Warning don’t know how to read the signs. Lucky for his wife and kids that she did (eventually) and got out.

All you in favour of Warning send the message that you condone married guys sleeping around and cheating on their wives.

That’s just really uncool.

christine says:

08:29pm | 14/02/11

Most people I know loathe warne so don’t know how you concluded “we love him”. He make me sick.

Stace says:

08:38pm | 14/02/11

Who the heck loves Warnie? I certainly don’t. The more I hear about him, the more disdain I feel. He lacks any style or class, he has no subtlety, can’t spell, doesn’t appear very intelligent, and doesn’t learn from his mistakes. He seems to me eminently dislike-able. If any of my friends behaved in the manor he does regularly, I would take them aside and explain how they were being a douche. Warnie was a cricketer, that’s why we know who he is; why we pay him any further attention for other matters is beyond me. I don’t even know why I’m here reading this, beyond seeing the headline and feeling I must protest its premise.

Gary says:

08:40pm | 14/02/11

Crock, crock, crock. It’s all about sportspeople being overly promoted as legends and actually simply having artificially inflated egos.
Buffoons loving (and wanting to be) buffoons.

Roderick Harmson - Smythe says:

08:45pm | 14/02/11

Looking at your photo Ms. Elser you appear to look like a nice girl,but if you are fond of Mr. Warne you could not be anything but common.

Ha says:

09:09pm | 14/02/11

the writer of this article is soooo delusional. OMG, yuk yuk yuk I hate him and every body I know hates him. He thinks he is god’s gift. Yuk Yuk Yuk!!! Pewk Pewk Pewk!

Daniel says:

09:11pm | 14/02/11

What Hurley sees in this lying dope is beyond me?

Myopic says:

09:40pm | 14/02/11

1. High profile serial offender hooks up with high profile serial victim.
2. Media jumps on band wagon and exposes infidelity.
3. Public is inexorably drawn to a celebrity driven train wreck.
4. Relationship fails before ever getting off the ground.
5. Media celebrates by asking why we love rogues like Warnie.
6. People flood the blogs to tell us how much they don’t care.
7. Poster pulls hair out and gnashes teeth for getting sucked in.

Belinda says:

10:33pm | 14/02/11

Count me out, I think he is an idiot,  he is a disgrace to mankind.  I wish everyone would stop reporting on his juvenile activities.  Seems to me Hurley is not much better.

Deson says:

11:59pm | 14/02/11

I am not part of the “We” you have lumped all of Australia in Daniela.

I would not cross the road to p*ss on him if his was on fire.

nodaniella says:

12:07am | 15/02/11

Why we love Warnie so much?  ... please don’t include the vast majority of sensible thinking australians in your dribble.  When a man cheats on his wife, he also cheats on his children.  Cheats them out of the family unit they are entitled to.  There are many honourable men around, yes still a few of them out there, that understand a real man has some integrity.  Its the media love affair with the idiots like Warnie that glorify their complete lack of integrity backbone and having any understanding of what being a real man stands for.

Warnie's ex says:

01:24am | 15/02/11

Sorry Daniela,
the only reason I read this article was because part of the title read…‘why we love Warnie’........hence why I am now writing these comments.
I wonder who you are referring to when you state ‘We love Warnie’.....who’s ‘We’ ?..........Certainly not me and judging by most of the above comments…not many others either!
Warnie was a great cricketer…and I stress ‘Was’.....but that’s all…...there is nothing tasteful, clever, smart, honest or genuine about the man outside of his cricketing pedigree…....I am both English and Australian (dual citizen) and so as an Aussie I feel ashamed that he represents Australia and Australian men. As a Pommie I feel just the same except perhaps with a bit more of a chuckle at the thought that to many people around the world he must be what most Aussie men are like….....hair transplant, artificial looking tan, cheated many times on his ex-wife and kids (because when you cheat on your wife you are also cheating on and letting your kids down as well), can’t keep his genitals in his pants, doesn’t give a rats that he is a laughing stock and an embarrassment to many aussies….I could go on….!
Stick to commentating Warnie, we really don’t care about anything else.

Can't stand Tosser Men says:

05:53am | 15/02/11

Warne was a tosser then and he is a tosser now. I feel sorry for the Australians that think this man is likeable or an ok guy. How disappointing to have such low morals.

Graham says:

06:30am | 15/02/11

I and everyone I talk to think he’s a nob.

Helen says:

06:34am | 15/02/11

Hmm.  Maybe there was an evolutionary purpose in the use of cannon fodder?

Knee Jerk says:

07:43am | 15/02/11

Love him or hate him, one Warnie is worth a million Kyles.

Geoff says:

07:53am | 15/02/11

We??????
You are kidding…  I have never loved Warnie.
Still don’t.
In fact every time I think of him I see him as the unattractive overweight moron dancing in the bleachers with a stump over his head.
Then I see him as the narcisistic twit.
Then the unfaithful husband.
Idiot serial texter.
A twitter twit.
Now just a habitual flirtatious cad.
What women see in him only heaven knows.

Jimmy says:

07:54am | 15/02/11

I can safely say I neither like nor love Warnie.  The man is a virus.

amused says:

07:56am | 15/02/11

Clearly the writer of this column has the hots for Warnie. He is an overweight pig and Liz Hurley is not classy woman who can have him. Stop talking about this idiot. He may have been a good cricket player but that is it. Anybody who likes Warne is probably cheating on their partner as we speak and they should be avoided.

cultural cringer says:

09:10am | 15/02/11

Why do journalists insist on telling us we love Warnie? Being a first class philandering bogun is nothing to aspire to.

John says:

09:11am | 15/02/11

A bit presumptious of you isn’t it, who says we love Warnie, I am sure it is a case of we really don’t care and have our own lives to get on with.

Ads says:

09:39am | 15/02/11

Why many are fans of SK Warne
- he embodies the Heinz soup ads; “Rich and Thick”, but plays it up with a degree of blissful ignorance.

- He is the Id - many blokes would love to be serial pantsmen into their late 30’s but for reasons such as stability, family, financial and genetic constraints, they cannot achieve this. (That’s the lads covered)

- he appeals to the lowest common denominator; the bottom of the intellectual pyramid is pretty heavy you know, and carries much weight; News Ltd cannot survive without it.

- he sells glossies to the darls and luvs in the heartland (that’s the lasses covered).

- Aside from his little foray into variety TV, most things he touches turn to gold.

- He is the Kramer portrait from Seinfeld “a loathsome offensive brute, yet we cannot look away”.

To those who claim not to care about SK Warne, why take the time to read the article & comment?

In an environment populated by Range Rovers & X5’s, he is the blinged-up Hummer (bad analogy or what?) - brash, crass & over the top but you’re simply drawn to it.

Aussie says:

09:41am | 15/02/11

I don’t love Warnie, I don’t even like him.  I am over seeing his life and that of his ex wife splashed over the media, snore.  I’m sick of hearing his ex sell her story in the trashy magazines… boring!! Move on.

Sally says:

09:51am | 15/02/11

What is wrong with the media !!!!!! We don’t love Warnie, please get rid of him. You can’t compare him to Charlie Sheen. At least Charlie is funny. His show IS funny. Agreed by millions of viewers. Shane Warne show was axed. He is NOT funny. Just downright pathetic.

Tony says:

09:52am | 15/02/11

Please delete the “WE”

jim says:

10:34am | 15/02/11

Who is this warnie person?

Judy says:

10:59am | 15/02/11

I used to love Warnie but his antics are becoming boring.  He needs to grow up and find a life!  Who really cares about his sex life and it’s just a flash in the pan anyway.  He needs to channel some of that sexual energy into something less addictive and maybe in service to others If he doesn’t already, perhaps coach some of those kids out there wanting to emulate him as the great bowler he was.  He also needs help!  I do wonder what his kids think too and what sort of role model he will be to them as they grow up.

Ange says:

11:04am | 15/02/11

Love Warnie??? are you kidding me? he’s a disgusting, boagn, slob. Yuk. I wouldn’t touch him with someone else’s…

Run Hurley says:

07:17am | 16/02/11

Run Hurley, run girl!