Footy legend Billy Brownless has a new woman in his life six years after his marriage ended in betrayal when his wife started dating best mate Garry Lyon
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Geelong great Billy Brownless finally confirmed rumours on Friday that he has started dating again.
The 55-year-old said that he’d recently formed a close friendship with a female companion, whose identity has not been publicly revealed, and that the pair are currently seeing where things led.
The AFL legend told The Herald Sun: ‘It’s really new and a nice little friendship. We’re going all right and taking it slowly.’
Geelong great Billy Brownless (pictured) finally confirmed rumours on Friday that he’s started dating again
Rumours had swirled for some time that Billy was ready to start dating again.
He had previously attempted to downplay reports that he’d been spotted on dates with a mystery woman, and quashed jokes about it from his Triple M colleagues.
Footy fans will no doubt be happy to see Billy open to love again after his 18-year marriage to wife Nicky sensationally ended in 2016 after she started dating his best mate, fellow AFL star Garry Lyon.
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Billy and Nicky Brownless (left) are pictured with Garry and Melissa Lyon (right) in 2012. In 2016, Lyon left his wife and started a relationship with Nicky
Both men’s marriages had ended before Nicky and Lyon announced they were a couple, but Billy still felt betrayed because they had assured him they were nothing more than ‘just good friends’.
After five years of bad blood, Billy and Garry began steps toward reconciliation last year when Brownless said they were in a ‘good spot’, before spending Christmas Day together in 2020.
Billy’s daughter Lucy described the lunch between the blended families as ‘really special’.
From left to right: Billy Brownless, Garry Lyon and James Brayshaw after The Footy Show won a silver Logie at the 2008 TV Week Logie Awards
‘It worked really well and was all very positive. We’re all happy and happy to be all together. It was a great day. We were all really excited about that,’ she told the Herald Sun at the time.
Billy addressed the issue with fellow AFL greats Sam Newman and Don Scott on an episode of the pair’s You Cannot Be Serious podcast in September.
He admitted though he had not fully repaired his friendship with Lyon, he said the pair ‘might’ be able to be mates like before at some point.
Brownless posed with his four children, Ruby, Lucy, Max and Oscar, in Geelong on Christmas Day (pictured, the four kids with their dad, centre) at Christmas lunch last year
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Source: Daily Mail
