Why Dave Hughes gave out his phone number on national TV
Dave Hughes has been sent more than 4000 text messages since he flashed his mobile phone number on national TV on Tuesday night.
During his Channel 10 show, Hughesy, We Have A Problem, the comedian spoke about how he had accidentally posted his wife’s mobile number on social media.
She was not pleased but Hughesy told the panellist that he would not have a problem with sharing his real contact number.
And to prove his point, he did exactly that on national TV.
“The phone just kept ringing all night,” Hughesy told news.com.au. “I’ve got close to 4000 text messages.”
The comedian also personally answered more than 100 calls he received.
“The funniest ones were FaceTime calls that I would answer and they’d just freak out and throw the phone down,” he said.
“I got a lot of lovely messages. Someone said that their son had died last year and my show was making them laugh for the first time. That’s a bloody lovely thing to get when you put out your number.
“There was a truckload of positivity but I’ll admit there were a few ‘I hate you’ messages. So it’s good they took the time to do that,” he added sarcastically.
But was that Hughesy’s actual real number? Well, the comedian has finally come clean.
“On the night when we actually filmed it I did give my actual phone number on the screen so everyone in the studio audience has my actual number,” he said. “But my management were like, ‘You can’t do that. You cannot give out your number to all of Australia.’”
So Hughesy was given a new SIM card with a new phone number and that was the number shown on TV.
But don’t worry, he is still receiving all the positive and not so positive class and messages.
“I’ve got another phone number but it’s connected to the same iCloud so every single call and message is coming through to my new number,” he said. “I don’t know what the f**k I did.”