Mitchell and Ado Carr are the gift that keeps on giving....
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The NRL has axed a controversial ad in which Latrell Mitchell starred and he is also under fresh scrutiny due to an incident before his last game for Australia.
The 30th anniversary of Tina Turner's
Simply The Best, criticised for being too politically correct, has been scrapped as rugby league prepares to return from lockdown. Mitchell appeared in the ad draped in an Aboriginal flag.
Acting NRL chief executive Andrew Abdo denied that ditching the ad had anything to do with Mitchell, saying that it was no longer appropriate in a league where fans won't attend games. He said that the focus was primarily now on TV viewership.
Mitchell and Josh Addo-Carr have been under fire due to a camping trip that breached social distancing laws and put the NRL's relaunch in some doubt. A fresh revelation has raised further questions over their professionalism.
Nine rugby league reporter Danny Weidler, writing in his Sun Herald column, revealed that Mitchell and Addo-Carr were out until the early hours of the morning riding scooters before Australia lost to Tonga last year.
''I didn't know it until after the event, but they were out scootering [riding scooters] until pretty late,'' Kangaroos coach
Mal Meninga told Weidler.
''Look, they were not out drinking alcohol. Our security made me aware they were out until 1 or 2am. There were players from other teams out as well.''
Meninga defended Mitchell's performance in that shock Test defeat. Having said last week that Mitchell and Addo-Carr might not be picked for the Kangaroos next time, he clarified that his call was based on their social distancing breaches, not the scooter incident last year.