Moonman not pursuing charges after big Sydney night out

A midnight exchange with a fan after a show allegedly left Lawrence ‘Moonman’ Mooney with a bloody lip— but the former Triple M host won’t be pursuing charges. Watch the video.

Lawrence “Moonman” Mooney is not pursuing charges against an exuberant fan with whom he’s alleged to have been involved in a late night skirmish following a recent Sydney show.

Mooney’s agent at A-list Entertainment said the comedian and Triple M radio host, who was sacked mid contract by the radio station in 2021 is putting the incident behind him after allegedly sustaining grazes to his face and cuts to his hand while defending himself in a fight believed to have taken place on or about August 28.

A battered Mooney later sought treatment for his injuries at a Sydney hospital, claimed sources sharing a photograph purportedly showing Mooney’s injured face.

The comedian appeared on the bill at Sydney Fringe Festival that night performing his R-rated show, Beauty.

This column has been told a high-spirited Mooney had been enjoying after-show drinks with fans near the famed Spiegeltent in The Rocks where he had earlier performed before the alte

rcation occurred.

Vision shows ex Triple M comedian Lawrence Mooney having a few drinks after a gig with fan, Johnny Lloyd Jones and an unidentified woman.

The grazed cheek of a man purported to be Lawrence "Moonman" Mooney following a recent skirmish with an exuberant fan.

One fan who captured Mooney on video during his late night drinking session was Sydney man about town Johnny Lloyd Jones, descendant of department store founder David Jones.

In video obtained by this column, a sweaty Mooney – a glass of red wine in his left hand, a Cosmopolitan cocktail in his right – playfully mocks Lloyd-Jones’s social pedigree while being filmed sending a cheerio to a fan by Lloyd-Jones.

Johnny Lloyd Jones (left).

“Well hello to Anthony, Jordo, Gordo, Orgo … I don’t give a f*** what your nicknames are. I’m sick to death of being hounded by your friend Johnny, who purports to be a (sic) heir to the fortune of David Jones. Well f*** him. F*** his friends. I’m just trying to have a good time with some good people, so good on you …” Mooney, in good humour, says talking to the camera.

After being interrupted by an unidentified woman, Mooney good humouredly instructs the woman “don’t touch me”, before raising two full glasses in a toast.

“Good on you, fire hydrant, (indecipherable). Jesus Christ, what a trial. Couple of Cosmopolitans. Do you know that Johnny’s finally come out? He loves it (deleted so as not to cause reader offence),” he taunts.

An entertained Lloyd-Jones then turns the camera on himself to deny the gibe.

Mooney directed the tirade at his companion

Johnny Lloyd Jones and an unidentified woman.

Mooney was controversially sacked from his Triple M breakfast show Moonman in the Morning in November 2021 amid rumours the sometimes abrasive star had fallen out with staff at the radio station, including his co-host, former The Block contestant Jess Eva.

This year he launched a $1 million breach of contract claim against TripleM proprietor Southern Cross Austereo in the NSW Supreme Court but the matter never made it to court and the parties instead agreed to resolve the dispute privately. Mooney this year told actor and podcaster Adam Zwar how he sometimes celebrated a good show.

“Well, you never want the buzz to end,’ Mooney said. “So you take a couple of lines and start drinking martinis … and that is a fool’s errand because, no mate, that applause is over.”

He told Zwar he could be “morose” and depressed before a performance but after knocking a show out of the park “ … all you want to do is just see all of the women naked, take all of the drugs, get blind and stay awake for a thousand hours.”

Triple M's Moonman in the Morning breakfast team - Chris Page, Lawrence Mooney and Jess Eva.

When approached yesterday for comment on his drinking session with Mooney, a bemused sounding Lloyd-Jones declined to comment.

Lloyd-Jones is a descendant of Welsh merchant David Jones who in 1838 founded the department store of the same name. One of Sydney’s bon vivants, Lloyd-Jones is perhaps known for famously having had a short relationship with childhood friend Susanne Bond, the daughter of businessman Alan Bond and wife Eileen. The relationship produced Susanne’s only child, Charlie, born in November 1998. Bond and the much younger Lloyd-Jones had split by the time the twice-divorced Susanne, 41, died of a drug overdose in July 2000, leaving behind the couple’s 18-month-old son.