Rex Hunt reveals six-year grudge against AFL legend over interview

AFL legend Rex Hunt has revealed his six-year grudge towards a fellow footy great, openly burning him to his face in a heated podcast.

AFL commentary godfather Rex Hunt has revealed a six-year grudge towards fellow footy media icon Mike Sheehan during a heated podcast this week.

Hunt openly roasts Sheehan to his face in an episode of the You Cannot Be Serious Podcast, starring Sheehan and former Footy Show host Sam Newman, released this week.

Hunt was a guest on Newman and Sheehan’s re-launched podcast and didn’t hold back when given a chance to address his personal grudge with the Fox Footy star.

Hunt said he has avoided Sheehan for six years in a feud that stretches back to the filming of the iconic radio caller’s episode of Open Mike in 2013.

Hunt says on the podcast he blames Sheehan for the show focusing too much on his personal controversies off the field — and didn’t do his on-field career justice.

The 70-year-old Richmond great was happy to tell Sheehan to his face that he doesn’t like the former Herald Sun chief football writer.

Hunt said he was “pissed off” at Sheehan for the episode’s focus on his colourful life away from football.

As Newman tried to keep the peace and Sheehan dismissed Hunt’s concerns, the former TV presenter fired up again at Sheehan.

Rex Hunt in the 3AW commentary box at the MCG.

“Look at me! Look at me,” he said in a moment of friction.

He said his anger towards Sheehan is linked to his own personal concerns that fellow inductees of the AFL’s prestigious life membership club question why he has been given such a high honour.

“I still, at 70 years of age, feel as if I don’t belong,” he said.

“You took me into the Foxtel studios, and you spoke about all the crap for 20 minutes, then you got on to football.”

Hunt even said he should abandon the podcast in the middle of the show because he was on the verge of saying something he would come to regret.

When challenged by Sheehan that the veteran journalist had been given no previous indication that Hunt was dirty at him, Hunt said he has gone out of his way to avoid Sheehan when they have bumped into each other at public events and the football.

“I don’t like you,” Hunt said when asked by Sheehan why he appeared so aggressive in the podcast studio.

Newman was eventually able to restore order and a civil relationship between Sheehan and Hunt before the end of the show.

It helped that Sheehan claimed he was one of the main driving forces behind Hunt’s induction into the AFL life membership club, where Sheehan was on the selection subcommittee before the 2018 life members were announced.

Rex Hunt has held onto his feelings for six years.

Hunt’s 2013 episode with Sheehan on Fox Footy’s Open Mike revealed the footy great’s heartbreak at his own marriage infidelity.

Hunt shed tears as he revealed that without wife Lynne’s support he would either be in jail or dead.

Wife Lynne famously stayed with Hunt despite revelations in 2006 he had paid three women for a serious of sexual relationships.

“Without Lynn, I would either be in jail or in Boot Hill (a cemetery),” he said on the show.

“Absolutely no doubt, and it’s the best thing that ever happened to me, meeting my wife. I would never have done that if I had known the disgrace and discomfort it would bring to my family.

“But to have my wife stand in front of me on television and give her love and support to me, I will never forget it and I owe that to her for the rest of my life.”