Radio star's explosive on-air outburst after Logies snub: 'Talentless losers'

While he’s had an important role at several Logie Awards in the past and even hosted the ceremony in 2007 alongside Fifi Box and Adam Hills, Dave ‘Hughesy’ Hughes has revealed that he wasn’t invited to this year’s event. The 2024 Logie Awards took place on Sunday evening at The Star, Sydney, with the comedian one of the many notable celebrities who didn’t attend.

During an appearance on The Fox’s Fifi, Fev & Nick on Tuesday morning, Hughesy shared his outrage over not being invited. The 54-year-old stand-up, whose 2DayFM breakfast radio show was recently axed, began by telling the hosts that he watched the Logies from his couch.

“I’ve enjoyed doing the Logies in the past, and look, I wasn’t invited on Sunday night,” he said calmly. “Just at home, yeah.”

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After Nick Cody admitted that he thought Hughesy would’ve been in attendance because he was a former host - in addition to delivering the opening monologue in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 - the TV personality exploded live on-air.

“No invite! Not even an invite!” he yelled into the microphone. “The amount of losers in that room, and the guy who’s been hosting it - I’ve presented for 20 years in a row and didn’t even get an invite!”

Hughesy slams 'talentless losers'

Brendan ‘Fev’ Fevola then questioned why he would be invited to the Logies when he doesn’t have any shows currently on TV, with The Masked Singer recently axed by Channel 10.

“Mate, I pop up on things!” Hughesy responded with a laugh. “I pop up on things! I’m a pop-up guy! You get invited if you’re a pop-up!”

Hughesy went on to claim that he’s never won a Logie or been nominated - although his Channel 10 comedy series Hughesy, We Have A Problem was nominated for Most Popular Comedy Program in 2018 and 2019.

“Handing them out year after year to d**kheads! Talentless losers!” he continued. “No, that’s all a bit of fun.”

“That was not a joke, I’ve never seen you so angry,” Fev remarked.

Who else didn't attend the 2024 Logies?

Hughesy wasn’t the only Australian TV personality who missed out on an invite to the 2024 Logie Awards on Sunday with his Masked Singer co-star and former Gold Logie nominee Chrissie Swan revealing in June that she had been snubbed by the event’s organisers.

“Where is it? I don't think I'm invited this year. I think this is the first year I haven't been invited in years,” she mused on her Nova radio show.

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Meanwhile, Abbie Chatfield confirmed to Yahoo Lifestyle last week that she was invited but chose not to attend because her BINGE reality show FBoy Island wasn’t nominated.

“I’m not going. I don't want to work for free, too much faff. It’s so much faff!” she remarked. “Adam gets home from his shows at five o'clock, so I'll be getting him from the airport and probably having dinner at home and we'll go to the movies or something.”

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