Nine presenter Alex Cullen stood down for accepting $50,000 from ‘Lambo Guy’
Nine presenter Alex Cullen has been stood down from his role on the Today show, after accepting $50,000 from billionaire Adrian Portelli in exchange for helping to rebrand him on air.
Portelli is hoping to be known in the wider community for his generous cash and grocery giveaways, but the lotteries operator is commonly referred to in the media as ‘Lambo Guy’, after arriving at a 2022 auction on Nine’s The Block in a garish yellow Lamborghini.
To change how the media sees him, he offered $50,000 to “the first TV journalist who calls me McLaren Guy and NOT Lambo Guy”, with an accompanying photo of a McLaren vehicle being lifted onto his Melbourne property.
