Erin Molan (born 24 August 1983)[2] is an Australian television presenter who worked on Sky News Australia, a past radio presenter on 2Day FM and a former columnist for Sydney newspaper The Daily Telegraph.[3]
Molan was born in Canberra[1] and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia. She attended sixteen different schools due to the Australian Army career of her father, Jim Molan.[4]
Career
Molan's first job in media was with a community television station in Canberra.[5] She then gained a job for WIN Television as a reporter and presenter and moved to Sydney in 2010 to work for the Nine Network.[1] In 2012, she joined The NRL Footy Show on a regular basis, appearing mainly on the "League of their Own" segment as well as being their roving reporter.[citation needed] In 2014, Molan became a permanent co-host of the program working alongside Paul Vautin, Darryl Brohman, Beau Ryan, and former test cricketer Michael Slater. Molan has also appeared on The Sunday Footy Show as a regular since 2012, mainly doing the "Around the Grounds" segment reporting.[4]
Molan hosted Nine's Wide World of Sports' coverage of the 2017 Fast5 Netball World Series. In May 2017, in the aftermath of domestic violence charges against Parramatta player Semi Radradra being dropped, Molan was publicly slammed by a small number of fans and by sections of the media for supposedly painting Radradra as being guilty and not giving the player the presumption of innocence when the allegations were first aired. Molan was asked by fans and the media to make a public apology to Radradra but no apology was forthcoming; Molan had publicly stated that Radradra deserved the presumption of innocence, and rather than being specific about his case, her comments were about what the NRL's stance ought to be in the event of domestic violence being found proven against any player, regardless of calibre.[6]
It was announced on 3 October 2018 that, after twenty-four years, The NRL Footy Show would be axed following the worst slide in ratings in the show's history.[7] In December 2021, Molan resigned from the Nine Network to join Sky News Australia as a primetime contributor.[3] In August 2018, Molan and The Sunday Footy Show issued former NRL player Dave Taylor with an apology after being accused of fat shaming the player during a video segment.[8]
In June 2020, Molan was criticised for mocking the name of TonganRugby League player Haumole Olakau'atu on the 2GB radio program The Continuous Call. Molan alleges that her nonsensical imitation of Olakau'atu's name was in reference to a previous discussion between the radio hosts where they grappled with how to correctly pronounce Pacific Islander names. Molan left the program at the end of the 2020 season.[9] In March 2023, Molan settled a legal case against Daily Mail Australia which she claimed had defamed her by publishing reports about this matter.[10] The case was resolved in mediation.[11]
In December 2024, Molan was abruptly fired from her position on Sky News.[14] After her firing, she went on a trip to Israel where she met with the country's president Isaac Herzog as well as relatives of hostages held by Hamas. Herzog praised Molan for her "moral clarity" in siding with Israel in its Gaza war. When asked why she was fired, she said budget cuts.[15]
Molan repeated the now debunked claim that after the October 7 Hamas-led attacks on Israel, before Israel had mounted a response to the attacks, crowds in Sydney celebrated the attacks, chanting "Gas the Jews" and other slogans. She said she felt "genuine shame for my country" for the first time in her life.[16]
In February 2025, Molan became the host for 69 X Minutes, a news show funded by Elon Musk which airs on Twitter.[17]
Personal life
In April 2017, Molan announced her engagement to policeman Sean Ogilvy.[18] Their daughter was born in 2018.[19] Three years later, Molan announced her relationship with fiancé Ogilvy had broken down.[20]
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