Radio host Dave Hughes left ‘traumatised’ after being mugged while buying family dinner

Radio personality Dave Hughes has been shaken up after he was mugged by a “big man” while trying to buy dinner for his family.

Dave Hughes has been left “traumatised” after he was robbed overnight while trying to buy dinner for his family.

The Aussie radio personality recalled the incident this morning on his 2DAY FM breakfast program Hughesy, Ed & Erin, admitting he was shaken up over the whole ordeal.

The 52-year-old said he rode his electric bike to a fancy SpudBar in Melbourne to buy baked potato dinners for his wife and kids, but the shop was closed.

As he went to call his wife to tell her they needed a Plan B for dinner, a man walked up to him and grabbed his phone.

“I’m on my bike and put my phone up to my ear and all of a sudden someone grabs my phone out of my hand. Yes, they stole my phone,” Hughes told co-hosts Ed Kavalee and fill-in host Kate Langbroek.

“I look and I’m gonna say it’s a man, a big man, and he is off his nut! I’m going to say he’s a meth head.”

The man then tried to talk on Hughes’ phone and got frustrated when no one was on the other end.

Dave Hughes reveals his mugging ordeal on air. Picture: Supplied

“He walks away with my phone in a ‘methy walk’ and tries to speak to someone on the phone, but I haven’t even had the chance to make the call yet,” he said.

“He goes, ‘You weren’t even talking to anyone!’ Like it was my fault; I was pretending to make a phone call.”

With the man 10 metres away, Hughes said he yelled at him to “give me my phone back” although he had “no intention to chase him”.

The radio host said he was confronted by “a big man” was “off his nut”.

“So at this point, my phone had been stolen by a guy who was obviously on drugs and he’s big and I didn’t know what to do.”

Langbroek said he should’ve called the police even if the man eventually threw the phone back, as that’s what she would’ve done.

“I know we’re all just like, ‘Oh, that’s just sort of how it rolls’,” she said. “But when you start accepting dysfunction like that, then dysfunction will rule.”

Hughesy has been relying on his electric bike as a mode of transport after he lost his licence last month.

“The first time in 35 years this has happened to me,” he revealed to listeners in an August broadcast. “I’ve lost my drivers licence. I cannot drive. I’ve been suspended from driving.”

“I’m not a drink-driver, I don’t even drink. It’s not that, and I’m not a mad speeder. But doing 46km/hour in 40 zones, do that often enough and you get a point, a point, a point, a point, and they’re all gone.”