Adelaide radio legend Jeremy Cordeaux charged with drink driving over incident near Feathers Hotel at Burnside

The former FIVEAA star is facing legal trouble over an alleged incident at a Burnside hotel.

A former Adelaide talkback radio and television personality has been charged with drink driving after cops allegedly busted him in the car park of a popular eastern suburbs hotel last year.

Former FIVEaa presenter Jeremy Nicholas Cordeaux did not appear in the Adelaide Magistrates Court for his scheduled hearing on Tuesday morning, but his lawyer told the Magistrate he’d need more time to discuss the case with his client.

“Your Honour, I’m asking for an adjournment to take final instructions from my client,” Hugh Woods, for Mr Cordeaux, said.

Former radio presenter Jeremy Cordeaux has been charged with drink driving. Picture: Matt Turner.

The media personality has been charged with one count of driving with excess blood alcohol, and police documents filed to the court revealed he was allegedly busted with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.108g in a hundred millilitres of blood.

In the documents, obtained by The Advertiser from court, police allege Mr Cordeaux was busted after driving his car through the car park of the Feathers Hotel, adjacent to John St in Burnside, on November 11 last year.

The charge is the fourth of its kind for Mr Cordeaux, of Glen Osmond, who was previously caught drink driving in 2005, then after a Christmas party in 2016, and again in December 2019.

In 2017, Mr Cordeaux told The Advertiser his second offence occurred after his wife drove to a Christmas party but was unable to drive home.

“I decided I would do the chivalrous thing, and that was a very bad thing to have done,” he said.

In 2021, the now 79-year-old was disqualified from driving for six months after pleading guilty to driving with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.056 on Glen Osmond Rd.

Mr Cordeaux made headlines again in March that same year when he called former political staffer Brittany Higgins a “silly little girl” during a radio segment.

He was subsequently sacked from the station after an award-winning nearly 60-year career across Sydney and Adelaide.

On Tuesday, Magistrate Christopher Smolicz adjourned the matter, with Mr Cordeaux due to face court in October.

Originally published as Adelaide radio legend Jeremy Cordeaux charged with drink driving over incident near Feathers Hotel at Burnside