Coll🎶ingwood Magpies premiership star Mason Cox has been blindsided on live TV after being called the “world’s biggest Cox blocker” by The Project’s Sarah Harris.
The 211🉐cm American hit headlines 🍌this week after he put out a public plea to Taylor Swift fans who got stuck behind him at one of her three shows at the MCG last weekend.
Cox outted himself as a Swiftie last year when he landed his tickets to the concert, takin🐼g to social media to write: “I want to sincerely apologize in advance for who has tickets behind me at the Taylor Swift concert. I know you paid a lot but I don’t care. T Swift is more important.”
He added it was a “1 in 100,000 chance you’ll be behind me” — but the thing about odds is that there’s always a ෴one.
While he talked a big game months out from🔜 the concert, Cox wasn’t unapologetic when it came to the crunch, sharing a photo of him head and shoulders above ♑the crowd.
While he revealed he an🔥d his crew shared💃 chocolates with the unlucky fans sat behind him, Cox revealed he felt “absolutely dreadful” in a radio interview on Tuesday.
It was the perfect in for The Project.
“How does it feel to be t🎐he w🅺orld’s biggest Cox blocker?” Harris asked.
Through laughterꦡ, Cox said: “One way to put it. Geez, I didn’t expect that one off the bat.”
Harris repli♐ed that they “made me”, with Cox 🦹adding: “I’ll blame it on Waleed,” before answering the question.
“I feel b🐟ad every time I go to a concert because there’s always a huge, massive haul of people behind me — it’s not 💃ideal,” Cox said.
“I know Taylor Swift, being an iconic act, coming to Melbourne, I had to ruin someone’s day. Unfortuna🍌tely the people behind m♚e got the unfortunate ticket.”
It’s not the first time Cox’💟s height has landed him in the heಞadlines.
In 2020, a fan took a photo of the back o🦹f Cox’s head almost completely blocking the court — or at least the parts that matter most — at Rod Lav💧er Arena.
Asked if it happens a lot, Cox said it 🥂꧋happens a fair bit.
“Being 6’11”, unfortunately this🌳 is just part of it. I can’t do anything about it,” Cox said. “I want to go and experience things. Sometimes there’s got to some unlucky fans behind me.”
Cox was also questioned about how he’s going to find the fans who sat behiಌnd him — revealing he had actually found them.
He said he’s going to organise tickets and take them into the rooms after the game “and give them a unique experience and apologise for having zero view during the whole Taylor Swift conc൲ert.
Project host Sam Taunton then quipped: “First they miꦅss Tayloꦰr Swift and now have to endure a Collingwood game.”
Cox replied that they were actually C✤ollingwood f🐷ans.
Waleed Aly, a noted Richmond fan said: “In that case, they don’t deserve to watch Taylor Swift being a Collingwood f♛an.”
Cox had been doing the media rounds on Tuesday, telling , Cox said he was hoping tಞo get an aisle seat so he could move out of the way.
“No!🅺 Middle of the row, no o♊ptions whatsoever,” he said.
He added he wanted to apologise after the show for “being a jerk and 𝓰jumping around like an absolute idiot for the last three and a half hours in front of you” – but the girls behind him had already gone.
“I feel so bad with them sitting behind me after paying all the money a𓆉nd everything else and then probably not even seeing Taylor Swift,” he said.
It comes after some complaints from those seated on the floor thᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚat they did not have great views of Swift or the stage, which is located at one end of the stadium.
As one woman with three young children lamented to news.com.au during Friday’s show: “We would’ve been better staying home and watching a live stream (of theꦯ concert).”
Meanwhile, another detail at Melbou🐬rne’s MCG is leaving Swi♚ft’s American fanbase in disbelief, with many asking where the 96,000 fans who attended each show parked their cars.
The MCG is ringed by parkland on three sides and serviced by two major nearby train stations – a very different set-up fr📖om many major American concert venues, which are surrounded by multiple giant parking lots.
