Big Brother winner Ben Williams now a gun player agent

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From original Big Brother winner to big time player agent, Ben Williams has enjoyed quite the career arc.

Williams shot to celebrity status as Australia went mad for the iconic Big Brother series in 2001 but has rarely spoken about the experience in recent years.

But that changed when Williams hopped on a different couch to shoot for Stan’s new Jerry Maguire-inspired AFL documentary Show Me The Money.

Stan’s blockbuster new AFL documentary series Show Me The Money premiers on March 10. Click here to sign up and watch!

“So Big Brother was in 2001, thankfully I won and then the next two years after that was pretty cool,” Williams said on the first episode, which airs on March 10.

“Obviously we were getting paid a lot of money and I was thinking ‘oh this is great, this is going to go on for ever and ever.’ And then it didn’t.

“The phone stopped ringing, money stopped coming in so I thought ‘this is actually a good motivating factor for me to get on with my life.’ And I thought if I wanted to be successful in something, that I had to be passionate about it.”

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Williams now owns and runs Players Ink with his wife Jade Robran.

“I loved business, I loved sport, enjoyed the media and it was the perfect synergy to get into this. If you sign with us you get us,” he said.

“We’re not a humongous firm that has numerous agents. We do it all ourselves.”

Inside the AFL’s ‘meat market’

The Players Ink stable includes about 30 AFL players including Swans stars Dane Rampe and Isaac Henney and last year’s No.1 draft pick Jason Horne-Francis.

“Some of these guys, you’ve known them since they were 16,” Williams said.

“You’ve seen them get their Ls, their Ps, had their 18th birthday parties, do their Year 12. The journey is a very long one and it’s an absolute honour to be able to ride shotgun with the boys and their families.”

Show Me The Money is a three-part series that grants unprecedented access into AFL clubs, star players and their agents.

Filmed in October last year, the series features some of the AFL’s most influential and ruthless agents including Williams, Paul Connors, Alex McDonald and Colin Young, who between them manage stars Patrick Dangerfield, Scott Pendlebury, Jeremy Cameron, Christian Petracca and Ollie Wines.

Show Me the Money will take footy fans on a rollercoaster ride behind the scenes of the AFL trade period,” Stan’s chief content officer Cailah Scobie said.

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