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Ben Cousins says starring on Dancing With The Stars made him realise how much he misses being a professional athlete - as he rebuilds career


Ben Cousins has revealed that his time filming  Dancing With The Stars has reignited his passion for sport.

Ben won the Brownlow Medal in 2005 and captained the West Coast Eagles from 2001 to 2005, securing the club's best and fairest awards four out of those season. In 2021, Susan Backshell, who has acted as a mentor for Cousins since his last stint on jail, told Daily Mail Australia that he remains solely focused on his kids. Promising to tell untold tales from his football career, the tour marked a kind of catharsis for the controversial Brownlow Medallist.

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