“We’re owed a refund”: Carrie Bickmore’s huge birthday blunder
David “Hughesy” Hughes turned 50 on Thursday and as a wonderful gift, Carrie Bickmore and her radio co-host Tommy Little hired a skywriter.
The plan was to write ‘HB Hughesy” with a love heart over Sydney, as a way to honour the comedian who has just moved to the city for his new breakfast radio gig.
However, the skywriter made a huge blunder and forgot the second ‘H’ in his name, calling him ‘Hugesy’ instead.
“It’s all about you right now … it’s live. This is live. Live above the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge,” Carrie and Tommy told him as he looked out the window.
“This is incredible, I’ve never had anything like this before,” Hughesy gushed.
However it wasn’t before long that they realised the blunder.
“Is there a spelling mistake?” Tommy pointed out.
“You spelled my name wrong guys,” laughed Hughesy. “Did you mean that or not?” he asked.
“Oh no!” Carrie cried.
“Look that is disappointing, but I’m flattered by that,” Hughesy admitted.
“Well we’re owed a refund from a skywriting company,” Tommy Little laughed.
Carrie addressed the hilarious mistake on Instagram.
“Oh crap. Tommy and I got @dhughesy a 50TH birthday present and it was written wrong in the sky!!! Happy birthday HUGESY,” the caption read.
Hughsey received the unfortunate mistake well however, laughing as he said: “You know what? It’s close enough.”