With speculation rife across the Tasman that Aussie cricket icon Shane Warne will be cast as the main protagonist in the Australia edition of The Bachelor, he looks like joining other sports stars who have moved into far different fields after their playing days were over.
Warne has spent time in the commentary box and as the face of a hair-growth company - and has even had a musical made about him, called Shane Warne the Musical: The Other Wizard of Oz.
He was a notorious party boy during and after his cricket career, so maybe the Bachelor gig wouldn't be so far removed from reality.
Here's 10 other sports stars who've sought a very different kind of life once they hung up their boots or gloves.
Ewen Chatfield - Cricketer turned taxi driver
Not all sports stars go on to have exciting careers in the media - take Kiwi cricket legend Ewen Chatfield for example. Alongside the great Sir Richard Hadlee, 'Chats', dominated the world's best batsman in the early 1980s, when the Blackcaps were one of cricket's top teams.
Chatfield finished his 15-year international career with 263 wickets - not bad for an opening bowler who could barely get above medium pace - and was one of the world's most economical performers in the one-day format.
Unlike most of his Blackcap mates, Chatfield shunned a career in sports broadcasting, in favour of a simpler life. He's worked in a fish and chip shop, as a courier driver and perhaps most famously, as a taxi driver, ferrying cricket fans to and from his old home ground at the Basin Reserve in Wellington.
Caitlyn Jenner - Decathlete turned reality TV star
Formerly known as Bruce Jenner, she was a former male college football player who became a top-class decathlete. Jenner won an Olympic gold medal in 1976 and was feted by the adoring US public, who called her "an all-American hero".
But a marriage to widowed Kris Kardashian turned Jenner's life upside down and she went on to pursue a successful career in television, most famously as patriarch of the Kardashian clan in the long-running reality hit Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
In 2015, Jenner transitioned from a man to a woman.
Vinnie Jones - Footballer turned actor
One of the original members of the Wimbledon FC 'Crazy Gang' and the captain of Wales, Jones was known as a practical joker and one of the most overtly masculine players in football.
Taking pride in being a 'hard man', Jones didn't shy away from controversy, and wasn't fazed by the ill-discipline and violence he exhibited during matches. In one notorious quote after a four-game ban, Jones proudly told media he'd "taken violence off the terracing and onto the pitch".
Perhaps that's why he's been such a natural fit in the gangster movies that have become his bread and butter after leaving football. Taking up iconic roles in Guy Ritchie classics Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Jones is a typecast in mobster and criminal roles on the silver screen, and has also featured on Celebrity Big Brother.
Simon Poelman - Decathlete turned drug trafficker
Poelman was - and still is - the best decathlete New Zealand has ever produced. Competing in 10 different athletic events over the course of two days, Poleman astounded Kiwi sports fans with his strength, skill and endurance.
He won three Commonwealth Games medals and looked set to push on for Olympic glory, until he discovered recreational drugs.
In 1998, he was sentenced to three years in prison for importing ecstasy tablets worth NZ$200,000 into New Zealand, stuffed inside a soft bunny rabbit toy.
After his release, Poelman, 40, returned to athletics in 2004 and broke the decathlon world age record.
Mike Tyson - Boxer turned pigeon trainer and convicted rapist
The former heavyweight boxer was a feared champion in the ring, but outside it, his life constantly spiralled out of control.
He spent time in prison for the rape of a teenage girl, but was allowed to continue his boxing career, where he famously chewed off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear in 1997.
After a string of poor financial decisions, Tyson claimed for bankruptcy in 2003, despite having earned about US$500 million (NZ$727 million) during his career.
Apart from boxing, the other constant in Tyson's life has been pigeons. He's owned several thousand and claimed the birds "never judged me or made me feel inadequate".
Richie McCaw - Rugby player, turned helicopter pilot
The recently retired All Blacks stalwart is one of New Zealand's greatest homegrown talents.
The man who led us to two Rugby World Cups and became the most capped Test rugby player of all time is a legend here, excelling in his role as openside flanker and became well-known for his aptitude at the breakdown. McCaw won the IRB Player of the Year award a record three times between 2006 and 2010, and is firmly embedded as the best rugby player the world has ever produced.
But after hanging up his boots, it was all about pursuing his life outside of rugby. McCaw married his girlfriend of four years - international hockey player Gemma Flynn - in January 2017 and became a Wing Commander for the Air Force in September last year.
He is also a helicopter pilot for Christchurch Helicopters, a business he founded, and helped out during both the Kaikōura earthquake and Port Hills fires.
He is also now Sir Richie, having accepted the Order of New Zealand in the 2016 New Years Honours.
George Foreman - Boxer turned grill ambassador and ordained minister
Quite a change for the man nicknamed 'Big George'. Foreman enjoyed an unbelievable boxing career that saw him earn an Olympic gold medal and twice become world heavyweight champion.
After 40 wins in a row, many boxing fans considered him unbeatable, until the infamous 'Rumble in the Jungle' with Muhammad Ali in 1974, which saw him knocked out in the eighth round.
However, after an impressive sports career, Foreman went through what he called a "religious epiphany" and became an ordained Christian minister in his home state of Texas.
Perhaps more famously, however, he endorsed Salton Inc's new George Foreman Grill. They paid him US$138 million (NZ$200 million) just to put his name on the product, and he earns 40 percent of the profit from each grill sold.
That takes his estimated profits to more than NZ$290 million - a figure substantially larger than what he earned as a boxer.
Michael Jordan - Basketballer turned baseball player and actor
He's the greatest basketballer that ever lived.
Michael Jordan - the highest average point scorer in NBA history, the winner of six NBA titles and six Finals MVP awards, and ESPN's greatest sportsman of the 20th Century accolade - was a phenomenon.
But after the murder of his father in 1993, Jordan decided to retire from the sport he had excelled in and try his hand at a different sport - baseball - which was close to his father's heart.
He signed a minor-league contract with the Chicago White Sox early the following year, but never really made the adjustment and he returned the NBA, where he plied his trade for the next decade.
The moment was recreated in 1996 hit Space Jam, a cult film where Jordan starred alongside the Looney Tunes, with a storyline that fluctuated lossely between real life and an alternative universe that featured fictional extraterrestrial characters.
OJ Simpson - American Football player turned actor and criminal
Orenthal James Simpson was a freakish running back in the NFL, who broke all sorts of records in the 1970s and became one of the most famous black faces in America. He had a stellar post-NFL career, appearing in many film and TV roles, but was often violent towards wife Nicole, who was found murdered in 1994, along with her friend, Ron Goldman.
Simpson was arrested and the subsequent trial was the most widely watched in US history. Despite much of the evidence pointing towards Simpson being guilty, he was controversially acquitted, but did go to prison in 2007, after being found guilty of armed robbery and kidnapping during a heist in Las Vegas.
Despite being sentenced to 33 years' imprisonment, he was released on bail on October 1 this year.
Eric Cantona - Footballer turned actor
Regarded as one of the greatest forwards of his generation, the Frenchman known as 'King Eric' won four Premier League titles in five years at Manchester United, under the tutelage of Sir Alex Ferguson. Many supporters credit him with sparking a revival that saw the club become the best-known in world football.
Cantona was highly controversial and had a tendency to get into trouble. This kung-fu kick on a fan earned him an eight-month suspension from the game, the longest in Premier League history:
But when retirement came calling in 1997, he took quite a different route to many of his contemporaries. After a short stint playing beach soccer, he decided to pursue his dream of becoming a film star, appearing Elizabeth alongside Cate Blanchett in 1998.
After a period out of cinema, he then married director Rachida Brakni, opening doors to several more film and play roles.
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