Mike & Don, You Cannot Be Serious. It was aired with this name until June 2020, when upon Sheahan quitting for a second time due to the fallout of comments made by Scott about former AFL footballer Nicky Winmar, it was renamed to You Cannot Be Serious. In December 2018, Eddie McGuire announced that Newman had signed a new multi-year deal with Nine; however, The Footy Show, of which Newman had been a part of with McGuire since the show started in March 1994, was replaced by a completely new formatted football show in 2019. Newman and McGuire were meant to host four Footy Show "specials" in 2019, but upon it being announced in May 2019 that The Footy Show would no longer be aired, this was cancelled. In June 2020, Newman announced that he would no longer appear on the Nine Network. Controversies Newman has regularly been a controversial figure during his media career, with some of his most controversial incidents on The Footy Show including: Wearing blackface to impersonate legendary Indigenous AFL footballer Nicky Winmar in 1999 after Winmar did not attend a scheduled appearance on the program Having his trousers pulled down by Shane Crawford live on-air in 2001 Hitting an unsuspecting David Schwarz with a pie in the face during an appearance on The Footy Show, with Schwarz responding by shoving Newman to the ground Manhandling and groping a lingerie-clad mannequin with journalist Caroline Wilson's face attached to it in 2008 in response to the way Wilson was dressed on Footy Classified. Newman was suspended by the Nine Network after the incident Describing five female directors of AFL clubs as "liars and hypocrites" after they complained about Newman's mannequin skit, leading one of those directors, Susan Alberti, to sue the Nine Network for $220,000 Smoking a bong on-air in 2012 after the AFL banned marijuana as a game-day substance; the substance in the bong was later revealed to be tea leaves Describing NFL draftee Michael Sam as "annoyingly gratuitous" in 2014 after the openly homosexual player kissed his boyfriend on live television on being drafted to the NFL In 2015, there were questions raised after Newman made remarks about Mitch Clark's depression issues Referring to transgender celebrity Caitlyn Jenner as "he" and "it" in 2017 (See also: preferred gender pronoun) Staging a silent protest and refusing to speak throughout an episode in 2017 after producers refused