Ryan Fitzgerald

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Ryan Fitzgerald
Personal information
Full name	Ryan James Fitzgerald
Date of Birth	16 October 1976 (1976-10-16) (age 31)
Place of Birth
Recruited from	South Adelaide Football Club (SANFL)
Draft	4th overall, 1998 Sydney Swans
Height/Weight	199cm / 96kg
Position	Forward
Club information
Current club	Retired
Number	15
Playing Career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2000 2002	Sydney Swans Adelaide	10 (15) 8 (8)
¹ Club statistics to end of Round 8, 2002 season
² Representative statistics to end of {{{repstatsend}}} Career highlights

Ryan James "Fitzy" Fitzgerald (born October 16, 1976) is an Australian media personality and former Australian rules footballer. After being drafted from the South Adelaide Football Club, Fitzgerald played 10 games for the Australian Football League club, the Sydney Swans in the year 2000. In 2002, he was transferred to the Adelaide Crows but only played 8 games for the Crows before retiring from AFL football due to ACL knee injuries.

Fitzgerald was a contestant in Big Brother Australia 2004, and finished in fourth place at the conclusion of the show. After that he became co-host of the Adelaide Nova 91.9 radio breakfast show and made occasional appearances on Before The Game (AFL). In 2005 he had a new role as a co-host on the new Friday night Big Brother Australia show Friday Night Live with fellow Big Brother 2004 contestant Bree Amer, which became a stand alone show in its own right in 2006 as Friday Night Games. He is also well known within the Adelaide gay community as "Ms. Hissy Fitz", for a much publicised performance in drag at The Mars Bar, a gay nightclub in Adelaide.

Fitzgerald attended Wirreanda High School^{[citation needed]} and played junior football for Port Noarlunga.^{[citation needed]}

Fitzgerald has since signed on for a number of endorsements, including a billboard advertisement in which he is labelled a b-grade celebrity.^{[citation needed]}

On the July 13 edition of Friday Night Live, Fitzgerald confirmed that he proposed to his girlfriend (Belinda "BJ" Irons) during that week, and they are now married.

Fitzgerald has a striking resemblance to Chelsea and Portuguese footballer, Ricardo Carvalho.

[edit] External links

• Ryan Fitzgerald's statistics from AFL Tables

• Ryan Fitzgerald's page at agent Harry M Miller

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