Melanie Bracewell accused Aussie comic Dave Hughes of urinating in her glass.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Hughes, 55, admitted to urinating in her glass but said he did it to avoid wetting himself before going on stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve done it maybe four times in my life before solo shows when the backstage had no toilet … I didn\u2019t want to wet myself onstage,\u201d he told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbsolutely never when anyone else was around, that would be terrible! I certainly don\u2019t look for glasses to pee in as a way to pass time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hughes said he had previously been mocked by fellow performers over the habit.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeter Helliar had a go at me about it once and I think Mel was in the same venue. I asked her to come on my radio show and roast me about it, she did, we all laughed a lot,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had no idea she was so aghast, she did a great job in joining in on the group ridicule of me, and then we gave her tour and TV show a big plug. I don\u2019t want to feud with another comic over things we laughed about.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hughes said he hopes friends would still invite him around.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat if no one ever invited me anywhere anymore because they think I\u2019m gonna wee in their finest glassware. I promise I won\u2019t. And that\u2019s a real promise, not an Albo promise, I won\u2019t change my position,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Melanie Bracewell has gone back and forther with Aussie comic Dave Hughes over the past week. Photo \/ Melanie Bracewell<\/p>\n
The exchange started after Bracewell shared a series of direct messages from Hughes on her 31st birthday.<\/p>\n
The Australian comedian sent her multiple political \u201cessays\u201d via direct messages on Instagram to which Bracewell replied; \u201cit\u2019s my birthday Hughesy I\u2019m not reading all this\u201d.<\/p>\n
Hughes has been openly critical of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, including an appearance on the Today show in which he criticised the Government\u2019s tax reforms, Nine reported.<\/p>\n
His appearance and views sparked widespread backlash, with his comments about the capital gains tax prompting Bracewell to take aim at his Melbourne property portfolio.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou gotta feel for Hughesy, he\u2019s living from his tenants\u2019 paycheck to tenants\u2019 paycheck,\u201d she wrote on X last Thursday.<\/p>\n
Bracewell also poked fun at his properties worth millions of dollars.<\/p>\n
While the extent of Hughes\u2019 total property holdings is unclear, reports indicate he owns at least two multimillion-dollar Melbourne properties. <\/p>\n
According to RealEstate.com.au, he bought a three-bedroom house in St Kilda for A$2.1 million ($2.5m) in 2014 and a five-bedroom house in Elsternwick for A$3.1m ($3.7m) in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melanie Bracewell accused Aussie comic Dave Hughes of urinating in her glass. Speaking to the Daily Mail, Hughes,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,1135,31781,9218,107632,2562,40367,3682,142013,9635,156,9637,692,1364,5630,78,25020,111,139,69,163692,16121,1305,186758,264231,376,80],"class_list":["post-536214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-after","tag-australian","tag-backstage","tag-before","tag-bracewell","tag-claims","tag-comedian","tag-comedy","tag-comic","tag-dave","tag-entertainment","tag-glass","tag-he","tag-her","tag-hughes","tag-in","tag-melanie","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-outed","tag-responds","tag-show","tag-urinated","tag-urinating","tag-water","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536214","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=536214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}