and the yet-to-screen Border Protection Squad. Discography Albums Awards and nominations ARIA Music Awards The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. ! |- | 2003 | Whatever | Best Comedy Release | | rowspan="3"| |- | 2007 | Live | Best Comedy Release | |- | 2009 | Dave Hughes Is Handy | Best Comedy Release | |- Personal life He married Holly Ife, a reporter with the Herald Sun, on 31 December 2006. They have three children together. He gave up drinking alcohol when he was 22 after deciding that it had become a bad influence in his life. Hughes is a vegan. Hughes is a keen supporter of the Carlton football team in the AFL and even asked the Dalai Lama to bless Carlton: after doing so, the Dalai Lama commented: "It probably won't do much, and it didn't." Controversy During the 2007 Logie Awards, which he co-hosted with Adam Hills and Fifi Box, Hughes referred to radio shock-jock Kyle Sandilands as a "massive dickhead" to applause and laughter from the audience. Later that year, when interviewed on Enough Rope with Andrew Denton, Sandilands said of Hughes, "I hate him – the next time I see him I'm going to punch him in the throat." Hughes retorted by releasing an official apology, which said in part that Hughes was "sincerely and deeply sorry that Kyle Sandilands is a massive dickhead" and that "massive dickheads have the same rights as normal people." References 1970 births ARIA Award winners Australian Anglicans Australian male comedians Australian stand-up comedians Comedians from Melbourne Living people People from Warrnambool