Career
He was traded to Street Kilda at the end of the 2009 season, but his contract was terminated in February 2010 before he ever played a game for the club Lovett has Indigenous Australian heritage and his tribal ancestry can be traced to the Gunditjmara. He is the cousin of Nathan Lovett-Murray.
Lovett played for the Northern Knights in the TAC Cup and North Heidelberg in the Northern Football League before relocating to Perth to play for East Perth in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), where he hoped he could be drafted into the American Federation of Labor-Congress.
Lovett was selected by Essendon in 2003 in the Rookie Draft.
He remained a rookie, playing for the Bendigo Bombers, until he made his American Federation of Labor-Congress debut against Hawthorn. At the end of the 2008 season, Lovett was mentioned as a potential trade for Essendon.
The Geelong Football Club were said to be the most interested in securing the lively forward who still had one year to run on his contract at Essendon. Although a trade did not eventuate, his form in the 2009 season saw another offer - this time from Street Kilda, who traded their first round pick (#16).
He was later given the number 9 guernsey, which was last worn by goalkicker Fraser Gehrig.
In December 2009 Lovett was suspended indefinitely by the Street Kilda Football Club following allegations of being involved in a sexual assault and on 16 February 2010 he was dismissed from the club when rape charges were laid. On 25 July 2011, Lovett was acquitted of the charges. In the time between his dismissal from Street Kilda and his acquittal, Lovett returned to East Perth to play the latter half of the 2010 WAFL season.
He then played for the NFL"s Fitzroy Stars Football Club in 2011.