Rachael tackles Cannonball run

FORMER Nine Network reporter Ben McCormack described himself as “a total b loving pedo” in online conversations where he outlined a sexual interest in young boys.

The former A Current Affair reporter went by the name Oz4skinboi when he spoke with another unnamed man for more than two years in conversations amounting to child pornography, according to the agreed statement of facts.

The man asked McCormack during one July 2015 conversation if he thought he’d always “be a p”, and the reporter said “Yep, U ... I’ll always have the attraction ... They are beautiful”.

McCormack, 43, was arrested in April and suspended by the Nine Network after police raided ACA’s Sydney office and his home.

He pleaded guilty yesterday to two counts of using a carriage service to transmit, publish or promote child porn, after a new, agreed statement of facts was tendered in Downing Centre Local Court.

His lawyer Sam Macedone said McCormack “always admitted to what he’s done, however the facts weren’t exactly correct”. “I just wanted to make it quite clear that there were never any images that were traded between Ben and anyone else of any child exploitation material,” he said outside court.

McCormack is scheduled to appear in court on October 6, when his lawyer hopes he will get a sentencing date. RACHAEL Finch is ready to put her money where her mouth is.

As referee on Seven’s new game show, Cannonball, she cheerily sends contestants on their way down a four storey- high waterslide.

But Finch ( pictured) is no shirker, having tackled the course herself.

As you might expect of a Miss Universe Australia contestant ( 2009), she flies through the air with style.

“I was the guinea pig, the demonstration model if you want to call it that,” she said.

No stranger to daredevil antics, Finch, 29, grew up in Townsville, where she was a keen waterskier.

“Every Sunday when the sun rose we’d pack up and get out on the water until the sun set. It was our weekly family ritual that I absolutely loved,” she said.

This year, audiences went wild for Nine’s Ninja War- rior,