{"id":818140,"date":"2026-07-23T06:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/818140\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T06:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:03:13","slug":"dave-hughes-responds-to-backlash-after-he-was-caught-urinating-in-a-cup-after-melanie-bracewell-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/818140\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Hughes responds to backlash after he was caught \u2018urinating\u2019 in a cup after Melanie Bracewell claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aussie<\/a> comedian\u00a0Dave \u2018Hughesy\u2019 Hughes<\/a>\u00a0has spoken out after the backlash he received for \u201curinating\u201d in another comedian\u2019s glass to avoid a mishap on stage. <\/p>\n

The 55-year-old spoke on Nova 96.9\u2019s\u00a0Ricki-Lee & Tim<\/a> show this morning admitting that while he\u2019s only done it \u201ca couple of times\u201d, he vowed to \u201cnever do it again\u201d. <\/p>\n

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Dave Hughes regularly updates fans about his personal life on Instagram. \u00a0Instagram\/@dhughesy<\/p>\n

Kiwi comedian Melanie Bracewell<\/a>\u00a0made the shock claim on Monday that Hughesy<\/a> \u201cpeed in one of my glasses I use for stage because he couldn\u2019t go out to the bathroom\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe does this regularly and wait staff have to clean it up,\u201d she claimed, bringing up the first time the two comedians<\/a> met back in 2022 when the incident took place. <\/p>\n

Hughesy<\/a> explained there\u2019s a venue at the Melbourne Comedy Festival<\/a> that doesn\u2019t have a toilet backstage. <\/p>\n

So to use the bathroom, he has to walk through a crowd of 300 audience members. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re a minute to go before showtime. You\u2019ve got to go,\u201d he told the radio show. \u201cSo you see a glass and you think \u2018Oh god, we have to go in that glass\u2019.\u201d <\/p>\n

The comedian explained he was on his own so was \u201cnot exposing\u201d himself to anyone. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo you go in the glass, and then after the show, you grab the glass and you walk it to the toilet,\u201d he went on. <\/p>\n

\"Melanie<\/p>\n

Comedian Melanie Bracewell made the shock claim about Hughes regarding the incident four years ago.\u00a0WireImage<\/p>\n

Hughesy admitted that sometimes he\u2019s been caught taking selfies with fans, on the way to the bathroom, holding his glass of urine. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not a good situation,\u201d he told the hosts. <\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until after he flushed the contents in the toilet, he was told he used the glass of another performer. <\/p>\n

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The comedian felt like the \u201cworst person in the world\u201d. \u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n

Hughesy revealed he laughed about the situation at the time and had contacted the performer, now revealed to be Bracewell.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen you don\u2019t think about it again for four years until it comes up in a comment in someone\u2019s Instagram, and all of a sudden you\u2019re the worst person in the world. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just trying to get through my life, guys. I\u2019ll never do it again … I only did it a couple of times.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aussie comedian\u00a0Dave \u2018Hughesy\u2019 Hughes\u00a0has spoken out after the backlash he received for \u201curinating\u201d in another comedian\u2019s glass to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-818140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}