Super-Wook Footy Legend became ABC Radio star Bob Murphy makes shocking sexually charged comments about his female co-host live in the air

An ABC radio presenter and former Footy star has shocked listeners after he looked like a sexually charged remark about his female fellow Gastheer Live in the air.

Former Western Bulldogs Star Robert ‘Bob’ Murphy, 42 years old, had presented his breakfast show in addition to the award-winning reporter and co-host Sharnelle Vella when the comment was made.

It comes after the duo started to organize the show in January 2025, after Sammy J (Samuel McMillan) announced that he would be a divorce partner at ABC.

On Wednesday, Murphy and Vella had discussed the subject of the importance of searching for financial and tax advice from registered professionals instead of using information from social media influencers online.

They welcomed Elinor Kasapidis, chief of policy, norms and external matters at CPA Australia, to the show to talk about the issue.

After a long discussion on the subject, Vella started to make a point about how some people may not be able to pay professional financial advice and can look at social media for guidelines for submitting tax returns themselves.

She started with a reference to when she left her first job of high school.

Vella said: “I remember that when I worked many moons ago in the retail trade when I was still in high school …”

But Murphy quickly intervened and said, “Not at Spearmint Rhino?”

Vella responded flat by saying: ‘No’, before he paused and then continued with her point. ‘I couldn’t afford to go to a financial adviser, so I made my tax return myself.

“I think that is why people look at social media,” she added, before she asked Kasapidis if she had good advice for people who wanted to do their tax on themselves.

Spearmint Rhino is a strip club chain with locations in Australia, the United Kingdom and the US.

There is no claim from Daily Mail Australia that Vella once worked in a strip club and it is clear that Murphy’s comments were intended as a joke.

Daily Mail Australia has contacted ABC for comment.

Murphy, a highly respected Footy player and a double all-Australian, had a bumpy start of the year in his new role, after the assessments of the breakfast show in March fell from 7.9 percent to 6.3 percent market share.

Earlier this year, the 42-year-old former AFF star was also criticized by rival radio presenter, Tom Elliott, because he ‘woke up’ after he had used the term ‘off’ to describe the top-flight Australian Rules football competition of the gentlemen.

“Does anyone else want to call the AFL the offspring?” Elliott said at 3AW trips.

‘In America you have the NBA and then the WNBA, which works well.

‘I think he [Murphy] Is the only person who does this. He continues to call the AFL the output …. that is weakness. ‘

In 2023, Murphy went to the former Bulldogs teammate Jason Akermanis with regard to a difference of opinion about whether Footy stars should be gay.

Akermanis was suspended by the Bulldogs and later removed in 2010 after writing in a newspaper column that it was too controversial to have an open gay player. He wrote: “Stay in the cupboard.”

Murphy thought about the controversy in an episode of ABC’s Podcast ‘Four Corners’.

He said he was ‘disgusting’, ’embarrassed’ and ‘injured’ by the comments of Akermanis.

Akermanis later stood in his comment and burned Murphy A ‘Sook’ and a ‘complete myth’.

In the history of the Australian Football League, no player has ever opened openly gay.

Murphy meanwhile said that every player would be supported by players and the AFL in an authorized statement.

“You are fighting and supported,” said the former captain of Bulldogs.

“If there is a different voice, they are told to close the F *** or get out.”

Murphy, who retired in 2017 after 312 performances for the Western Bulldogs, was also supposed to have slept through the start of his Friday, April 11, breakfast trader show, leaving Vella without her fellow guest lord.

His alarm did not go off and he missed his live start of 5.30 am and came to the studio 45 minutes late.

“Good morning Melbourne, well, it says Sharnelle Vella and Bob Murphy, but I’m alone this morning,” Sharnelle told listeners when the show started.

“People text about where Bob is. He will be here soon, not a single panic. ‘

When Bob appeared, he revealed what had happened live in the air.

“Good morning everyone … It has been the morning,” he said.

Murphy then explained that his wife, Justine, had to get him out of bed.

‘Somehow the telephone charger must have removed a little at night. My favorite jumped out and said, “It’s 5:30 a.m.”

The former Western Bulldogs star then apologized to listeners: ‘I feel that I have abandoned you. I suppose it had to happen. ‘

However, Vella poked pleasure in her fellow gastheer, joke: “I’m going to the stores to buy him a charger.”

Later in May, the reviews of ABC Radio took another hit, with the latest GFK radio survey that states that Vella and Murphy’s breakfast slot had slipped by another 0.7 percentage points and fell from 6.3 to 5.6 percent of the total audience share.

He has spoken earlier about how the first few weeks were like a step in the breakfast tradio, telling The Sydney Morning Herald: ‘You come in and something can really happen.

‘You can start talking about one thing, and it takes a turn and it goes out. And that is sport, that’s music, that’s theater.

‘I clearly stepped out of a sports world that deals with politics and culture and community and those things, but it is focused on the game.

“This is a completely different Colosseum.”

After hung up his boots, Murphy worked in various media capacities, in particular writing a column in the era, as a panel member on Fox Footy’s Afl 360 and he joined Andy Maher to organize the Afternoon Drive show on 1116 Sen.

He and his family moved back from Perth to Melbourne at the end of last year to let the star of the former Bulldog work on the show.

In the meantime, it was also announced in March that Murphy would play a leading role in the Kennel.