Controversial former Labor senator Sam Dastyari to host Network Ten show on political scandals

Controversial former MP Sam Dastyari to host ‘edgy’ new Channel Ten TV show called ‘Disgrace’ that focuses on scandals – less than a year after controversy ended his political career

• Former Labor senator Sam Dastyari to host a new Network Ten show on scandals
• Labor powerbroker is making a pilot based on the format of ABC’s Gruen show
• He resigned from the Senate in January over a scandal involving Chinese tycoon 
• Former Chaser comedian Charles Firth would be the producer of the panel show 

By Stephen Johnson For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 00:45 BST, 20 July 2018 | Updated: 00:53 BST, 20 July 2018

Sam Dastyari will host a new TV show about political scandals, less than a year after his own Senate career was terminated over a China controversy.

The 34-year-old former Labor powerbroker from Sydney is reportedly in talks with Network Ten to front a new show called ‘Disgrace’.

Mr Dastyari, who already writes a column for the Ten Daily website, is set to host his own political notoriety program dissecting how some MPs survive scandals, New Corp Australia reports.

 

Sam Dastyari will host a new TV show about political scandals, less than a year after his own Senate career was terminated over a China controversy

People familiar with the pilot told The Daily Telegraph the program would be ‘pretty edgy’ and would also feature former Chaser comedian Charles Firth as a producer.

‘It’s taking scandal and political scandals to a space that no one has been covering,’ a production source told the newspaper.

The program would be modeled on the ABC’s Gruen show, where experts on a panel analyse a series of controversies.

Mr Dastyari resigned from the Senate in January after revelations he had told Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo his phone could be bugged, during a meeting at the home of the tycoon linked to the Communist Party-linked businessman.  

The 34-year-old former Labor powerbroker from Sydney is reportedly in talks with Network Ten to front a new show called ‘Disgrace’

A month after he quit federal parliament, he was given a weekly gig on Sydney’s KIIS-FM revealing sordid political scandals on the breakfast show hosted by Kyle Sandilands and Jackie Henderson.

In his book One Halal of a Story, written when he was still a politician, Mr Dastyari said he wanted a career after politics hosting an angry, left-wing talkback radio program. 

Earlier this week, there was a report public relations supremo Roxy Jacenko was in taks to co-host a TV show with Mr Dastyari, a former general-secretary of the New South Wales Labor Party who was born in Iran.

 Earlier this week, there was a report public relations supremo Roxy Jacenko was in taks to co-host a TV show with Mr Dastyari

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