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Dave Hughes reveals bizarre way Kate Langbroek dumped him

It's the end of a hit radio partnership, but are they still friends?
  • 28 Aug 2019

Radio and comedy favourite Dave Hughes has told of how his former radio offsider Kate Langbroek bizarrely ditched the show – and him – from her Italian bolthole.

Revealing all during an appearance this morning on Sunrise, Dave confirmed that Kate had not been in touch for a number of weeks before he got a surprising message via text.

WATCH: Dave Hughes tells how Kate Langbroek dumped him 

Dave Hughes reveals bizarre way Kate Langbroek dumped him

'It's a weird one because she's gone to Italy to find herself in Italy with her family,' Dave explained. 

'She's over there and we followed her and set up a little studio there in Bologna, so she can broadcast the show from there and she was doing that for the first six months of the year.

'And then she just texted me a couple of weeks ago and said, "Nope, can't be bothered for the rest of the year".'

Although laughing, Dave seemed taken aback by the way he was ditched, after the pair have enjoyed a long and fruitful working relationship.

‘It was just a text message!’ he said.  ‘I hadn't heard from her in a couple of weeks and then just a text message!' 

Dave confronted Kate on air about the fiasco last week, telling her, 'We were planning for you to come back in a few weeks.’

 

 

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But it seems things were never locked in, at least according to Kate, who replied, ‘Kate, who was speaking from Italy, replied: 'Well, you were trying to talk me into that...'

Kate, who will make guest appearances, will be replaced on air by Ed Kavalee, but the show will still be called Hughesy & Kate.

The radio star, 53, famously fled Melbourne for Bologna in January, when she relocated her entire family following an attack on their home. 

Speaking to Tommy Little on The Sunday Project, the mum-of-four revealed another reason for the move, saying that her eldest son's battle with leukaemia when he was just six years old had inspired the family to go on an "adventure". 

"Our eldest son Lewis, who's 15 now, and healthy and beautiful, had leukaemia when he was six, and was in treatment for four years, and nearly died," she told the presenter.

"For so long we couldn't go anywhere, we couldn't travel anywhere — I mean we went to the hospital, we went home."

"There seemed something really life-affirming about having an adventure together as a family," she confessed.   

She and her husband, Peter moved to the northern Italian city with their children Lewis, 15, Sunday, 14, Artie, 12, and Jan, nine. 

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