Former footy reporter Tiffany Salmond has turned to making money by charging fans for personal messages on a video platform as she remains unable to find more work as a sideline eye at NRL games.
The Kiwi former Fox Sports journalist is now recording tailor-made clips on Cameo for $142.38 each, or $1922.17 for business videos, as she joins a host of TV and footy stars, models and even Aussie Olympic breakdancer Rachael ‘Raygun’ Gunn on the service.
Fans can choose from getting Salmond to record a birthday message for them, answer a question of their choosing, give them a pep talk or help them with advice.
‘Whether it’s a milestone birthday, an anniversary, or a long-awaited reunion, make it unforgettable with a one-of-a-kind Cameo video from Tiffany Salmond,’ the blurb on her Cameo page reads.
‘You’ll have the chance to customize your request for Tiffany Salmond, like asking them to mention inside jokes, share words of wisdom, or work in their signature catchphrases.
‘Don’t be afraid to get creative with your request, especially for celebrations like weddings, retirements, or bachelor and bachelorette parties that call for a good laugh.’
Pictured: Tiffany Salmond takes to Instagram to announce she’s now charging her fans for personalised messages on the Cameo video platform
The former Fox Sports TV reporter charges $142.38 for personalised clips
Salmond (pictured) has been trying to break back into footy TV reporting without success since finishing up her work in front of the camera in New Zealand
Cameo, which is based in Chicago, is valued at $1billion and has steadily grown its celebrity presence.
Salmond has been vocal about her inability to find TV work since being dumped from her role reporting on New Zealand NRL games for Fox Sports, RNZ and Sky.
She claimed she’s been unsuccessful in her job search partly because rugby league TV journalism is a ‘boys’ club’ in which ‘the men are allowed to be edgy, loud, have huge personalities and take up space but women have to toe the line of being attractive, but not too sexy’.
Salmond has repeatedly posted comments from footy fans who want to see her return to the screen, and has accused broadcasters of failing to give her a fair go despite what she sees as her highly successful time in front of the camera.
‘I wasn’t let go because I failed. I was cut off while thriving, connecting, performing and being embraced by the audience,’ she said.
‘It’s not due to lack of audience support – that’s been overwhelming.
‘It’s not about performance, talent or knowledge, either. I have been publicly praised for all of these attributes and internally praised as well.
‘What I’ve come to realise is that sometimes, when you don’t fit a traditional mould – especially as a woman in rugby league – you become harder for the system to place.
The Kiwi star claims she has been unable to find more work in the footy media because she doesn’t ‘fit the traditional mould’
Salmond (pictured working as an NRL sideline eye for Fox Sports) said she has tried to get more work with Channel Nine and Triple M
‘I’m not a former player. I’m not someone’s daughter. I didn’t come through the usual production lines.’
Salmond has said she met with Triple M radio and Channel Nine about getting work since moving to Sydney, but ‘nothing came from it’.
Last September, she opened up about NRL players trying to date her by using a ‘bizarre and weird’ pick-up method that she hasn’t seen before.
‘This has happened to me a few times and I’ve never received these types of messages from anyone else except NRL players,’ she explained on Instagram.
‘It’ll be on TikTok and what they’ll do is send me a video to my DMs with no context, no message, no ‘hey’, nothing.
‘And it’s always these bizarrely sexually charged videos or like over-the-top ‘I’m attracted to you’ type videos.’
Salmond said the weirdest one she received had very explicit moaning as a soundtrack.
‘This is a very unique way of flirting that I’ve never experienced from anyone outside of the NRL, so I don’t know what’s going on here. Is this their locker room talk or do they think this works?’ she wondered.
‘I think the worst thing about this is that they wouldn’t send these messages – these weird videos with no context, and no ‘hey’, no message, if it didn’t work.
‘I’m sure I’m not the first person they’ve tried it on, probably just the first person to make them realise how strange it is.’
Salmond went on to say that she thinks footy players and other professional athletes are probably bad at flirting because all they usually need to do is ‘look in somebody’s direction’ and ‘women are falling all over them’.
‘I do take pride in being maybe the first, or one of the very few women, who humble them (players) and let them know that this doesn’t work, this is kind of weird behaviour,’ she said.
