{"id":493347,"date":"2026-06-24T14:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/493347\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:41:09","slug":"rubbish-dave-hughes-goes-on-logies-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/493347\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rubbish\u2019: Dave Hughes goes on Logies rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Radio presenter Dave Hughes has unleashed on the Logie Awards bash despite having previously performed at the ceremony numerous times in the past.<\/p>\n

The comedian didn\u2019t hold back when he stepped in on-air yesterday, filling in for Will McMahon on the KIIS Network\u2019s Will & Woody Drive Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a segment titled: \u201cHughes Gets Us in the News\u201d, the radio presenter shared his disdain for the Logies.<\/p>\n

MORE:Dave Hughes says the Labor budget is an \u2018absolute disgrace\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Logies are rubbish anyway,\u201d said the star. \u201cSeriously, it\u2019s rubbish. And I\u2019ve performed at it 20 times. No respect. They can all go.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also went on to open up about his time spent interviewing some of the world\u2019s biggest stars, including a famous pop star who Hughes claims \u201crefused\u201d to even look at him throughout their uncomfortable chat. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to say Ben Stiller,\u201d shared the star when who was his worst ever interview. \u201cI love Ben Stellar. I loved Tropic Thunder. He wrote that. Loved the Zoolander,Meet the Fs, all those shows. <\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cYeah. But in person, he just was, maybe he was having a bad day. It was him. I think it was Will Farral was there. It was a group of them and he was just a pain in the ass, honestly. And maybe again it was a bad day, but yeah, Ben Stiller. Yeah, I know that\u2019s hard for people who love him to hear, but it\u2019s my experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hughes then added that when he interviewed singer Avril Lavigne, she \u201crefused\u201d to even look up at him.<\/p>\n

\u201cAvril Lavigne. Shocking,\u201d he said. \u201cOh, just would not look at us. Well me in particular probably.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Hughes hit headlines earlier this month after he unleashed at the federal government<\/a> over changes to capital gains tax (CGT) and negative gearing, saying the budget \u201ctipped Australia over the edge\u201d and people are \u201cangry like I\u2019ve never seen before\u201d.<\/p>\n

The lifelong Labor voter stunned fans with a series of videos going scorched earth on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

Speaking to news.com.au, Hughes said last month\u2019s budget had finally tipped him over the edge, even though he supported Labor at the last election.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always been a Labor voter,\u201d the 55-year-old Aussie TV icon said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad was a factory worker, mum\u2019s a nurse, so I grew up in that sort of working-class family and carried that through my whole life, long after I became financially independent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radio presenter Dave Hughes has unleashed on the Logie Awards bash despite having previously performed at the ceremony…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-493347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}