‘This is bull***!’: Triple M radio host storms off show

The moment a Triple M Sydney radio host stormed off the show has been revealed, after his co-hosts cracked jokes on air about cash jobs and the ATO.

A monumental blow up erupted at Triple M’s Sydney radio studio with anchor Anthony Maroon storming off the show.

Respected broadcaster Maroon took umbrage when sports journalist James Hooper jokingly questioned the anchor over cash jobs and the Australian Tax Office.

Gordon Tallis and Paul Kent were also in the studio.

“Mate I don’t think it is funny, it has already caused me a lot of grief,” Maroon said as the awkward exchange played out on air on Sunday. “I am not putting up with it anymore. I don’t like it. I have asked many many times for it to stop. I am saying here and now, I am not even joking … I tell you what, I will leave you guys with it okay.”

Kent took over anchoring the show for the remaining hour before the Dragons v Tigers game at the weekend.

Stormed off... Triple M radio’s Anthony Maroon.

Sports journalist James Hooper

Earlier, Maroon warned his co-hosts that he would share stories about them that they don’t want made public if they continued to push the issue. As they continued, he detailed that Hooper is unable to drive after losing his licence and made reference to Tallis.

Hooper said: “Hang on a minute, there is some breaking news here, I just got a text message … ‘hello this is the ATO, the Australian Tax Office, we have an inquiry’.”

Maroon responded: “I don’t have a problem with the ATO, I welcome it mate but I am just wondering when are you going to be back on the road Hoops?”

Hooper then said: “Why are you jumping around like a cat on a hot tin roof?”

The incident escalated dramatically from there.

“I am fed up with it,” Maroon said. “I have asked you on air, I have asked you off air, I have asked you to stop and now I have told you I am hitting back. If I have got to cop it every week for five years, lets have it out on air. This is absolute bull***. We might get a walkout.”

Sports Journalist Paul Kent and

Maroons legend Gorden Tallis were also in the studio.

Maroon said he had raised the issue with management but had heard “crickets”.

“Lets keep going boys because when it comes to you three, I live a very boring life,” Maroon said. “I am blowing up because I am sick to death of it. Now I have known for three years you have not had a licence and I have not said anything on air. I have warned you 15 times, I don’t like this. I have been on air for 32 years, I am a professional. This particular issue I have probably raised on air and off air I don’t know 100 times. I have even sent emails to the powers that be … nothing. It never stops.”

Confidential has reached out to Triple M representatives and Maroon for comment.

2GB mornings host Ray Hadley played the exchange on his show today, criticising Triple M management at Southern Cross Austereo for not intervening sooner.

“He (Maroon) says in the audio he has been to management and they have done nothing,” Hadley told listeners. “Knowing what I know of Southern Cross management I am not at all surprised, they are as weak as water. There is no leadership there and there should be.”

Describing the situation as distressing and “embarrassing”, Hadley added: “What happened on Sunday should not have happened.