‘No one panic’: ABC radio host Bob Murphy sleeps through his own breakfast show

Former Western Bulldogs star Bob Murphy has slept through his alarm and left colleague Sharnelle Vella at the mic alone on their breakfast radio show.

Bob Murphy left Sharnelle Vella at mic alone on their breakfast show after sleeping through his alarm. Picture: Instagram

A back up alarm clock is on the shopping list for Bob Murphy after he was still in dream land when his ABC radio breakfast show got underway on Friday morning.

Murphy, the former Western Bulldogs favourite, slept through his alarm and was still at home when his co-host Sharnelle Vella opened the show.

“Good morning Melbourne, well it does say Sharnelle Vella and Bob Murphy, but it is just me this morning, on my own,” Vella told her listeners.

“Bob, people are texting about where Bob is. He will be here shortly, no one panic.”

Sharnelle Vella and Bob Murphy teamed up to host ABC radio Melbourne this year. Picture: ABC

About 45-minutes later a sheepish Murphy joined her in the studio.

“Good morning everyone ... it has been quite the morning,” he said.

“Somehow overnight the phone charger must have dislodged a bit.

“My darling jumped out and said ‘it is 5.30am’.”

The Sharnelle and Bob Show starts at 5.30am, so Murphy didn’t do a bad job getting from under the doona to in front of a studio microphone in under an hour.

“I feel like I have let you down. I suppose it had to happen,” Murphy admitted.

Back up or multiple alarm clocks are a fact of life for breakfast hosts heading into the radio studio at ungodly hours.

“I’m off to the shops to buy him a charger,” Vella quipped yesterday.