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A Betoota Grove Mum is putting the finishing touches on an elaborate cheeseboard tonight as she prepares to tuck into her favourite soap opera of the week.
Flittering about her kitchen in her trusty comfy clothes and Ugg boots, Helen Hodges (49), is getting ready to watch the greatest gladiatorial contest in modern history.
As the secretary of the local Betoota Amateur Theatrical Society and board member for Betoota’s Old and New Art gallery (BONA), Helen is often associated with high culture initiatives around town, and is never too far from attending the unveiling of a new art installation or welcoming a travelling string quartet to town.
However after the shock fall out of Joseph Suaalii’s on-field decapitation of Reece Walsh in Game I, Helen’s become deeply invested in the three part Shakespearean melodrama that is Origin football.
“That shot on poor Reecy in Game I was sickening!” Helen told our reporter, while she arranged some dried apricots and quince paste around a wheel of camembert.
“You can’t tell me the State Premier of NSW hadn’t personally signed off a death contract on our fullback.”
“Grubby I tell you, so grubby.”
After spending many hours since Game I researching, reading and indulging in any pictures of Reece Walsh that appear in her news feed, it’s believed the high rate of Origin related content in her algorithm lead Helen down the dark path towards watching NRL 360 every night for the past two weeks, just to catch a glimpse of those gorgeous eyes.
Now deeply engaged with every Origin storyline that includes good looking boys manhandling other men, Helen says Origin period is her new favourite drama, outside of Bridgerton, to binge watch.
“Fancy NSW suggesting we live in glass houses, that’s nothing but a media diversion tactic!”
“And even if coach Billy Slater did live in a glass house, you can’t blame me for taking a peek.”
