Shock jocks Andrew Bolt, Ray Hadley and Alan Jones brawled openly on air this week after Bolt demanded an apology from Hadley for calling him “soft on paedophiles” now that George Pell has had his conviction quashed. Bolt told Jones on 2GB, Hadley’s own station: “I need Ray Hadley to apologise now, I was very hurt, he did a rant calling me creepy, accusing me of creepy behaviour for defending George Pell.” But Hadley was not backing down and even offered to take it outside when he came on air after Jones for his morning show. “You want to try and put me on my arse one day, I don’t know if you would be successful, handbags at 10 paces perhaps,” Hadley said to Bolt. “I never said the words attributed to me in relation to George Pell, no one asked me from [Jones’] radio program this morning whether I said those words, that’s poorly researched rubbish. “For the attack on me this morning on my own network, to say I am disappointed, yes I am,” he said. “Am I surprised? No I am not.” The extraordinary spectacle on Sydney’s top radio station followed the release of Pell from jail,… Read full this story
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