Who Is Luke Darcy’s Wife?

In February 2019, Darcy was announced as co-host of the Seven Network’s lifestyle program, House of Wellness alongside Jo Stanley, Rachael Finch and Luke Hines.

In 2014, Darcy became the new host of Seven’s iconic AFL chat show Talking Footy. Darcy has also been a fill in sport presenter on Seven News Melbourne and has served as a tennis commentator for Seven, covering the 2014 Brisbane International.

Luke is married to Rebecca and they have four children – Sam, Sienna, William and Max.

Following the 2011 season, Network Ten lost the rights to broadcast Australian rules football matches. Luke joined the Seven Network who have the sole free to air broadcasting rights from 2012-2016. He is a member of the Saturday Night commentary team with Basil Zempilas, Cameron Ling, Matthew Richardson, Samantha Lane and Mick Molloy while maintaining his work at Triple M.

In 2009, Luke became an Australian rules football and netball commentator for Network Ten, as well as becoming a panellist on panel shows One Week at a Time, Thursday Night Live. and The Fifth Quarter.

In 2008, Darcy became a member of the AFL rules committee.

During his time on the sidelines, he provided special comments for Network Ten’s AFL coverage, and continued to do so after his playing retirement which he announced on 2 August 2007, the end of the 2007 AFL season. Luke was officially added to Network Ten’s AFL Commentary Team in 2007 (despite still playing football until the end of that season) and remained an Expert Commentator right up until the end of the 2011 AFL season, when the network lost broadcasting rights.. From the 2012 AFL season onwards, Luke was part of the Seven Network’s commentating team for Saturday matches.

In a 2005 match against Geelong, Darcy suffered a season-ending knee injury when he twisted it, depriving the Bulldogs of a quality tall-forward option, something they missed during the year.

On 20 December 2005 during the final pre-season training session before the Christmas holidays, Luke re-injured the ACL during a fall which dislocated his knee, which meant that he would miss the entire 2006 season. The Bulldogs finished the season in eighth place, the first time the club had made the finals in six years. He had been part of a Bulldogs casualty list that included four ACL injuries during the season (up until only the Round 9 mark).

Debuting in 1994, Luke became known as one of the Bulldogs’ most successful ruckmen/forwards. In 2001 he took out the Bulldogs’ Best and Fairest award, the Charles Sutton Medal, and continued to play well in the following seasons. in 2002 Luke and the Brisbane Lions’s Michael Voss were the first players to be awarded the Leigh Matthews Trophy as the AFL Players Association’s Most Valuable Player (MVP). In 2004 he was the Western Bulldogs’s leading goalkicker.

Luke started his career with South Adelaide before his recruitment by the Bulldogs in 1993.

The AFL MVP award been in a relationship with?s back to 1982, when the league was still the Victorian Football League (VFL), but the Leigh Matthews Trophy was only created in 2002. All prior VFL/AFL MVPs were retrospectively given the Leigh Matthews Trophy in 2005.

Luke Darcy (born 12 July 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL) and now works for the Seven Network and Triple M covering the AFL.