with Hughes for him to be rumored to insure it for £200,000. In a 2013 Sky Sports interview during the 2013 Ashes series, he quashed this rumour as being false. Other sports Hughes also played Australian rules football during the winter in the late 1970s and early 1980s; at his peak, he was a key position player for the Werribee Football Club in the Victorian Football Association first division. In the media In 2015, Hughes appeared on the Australian version of the TV show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. In an interview for Hotspur magazine, Hughes revealed he has supported Tottenham Hotspur since the early 1980s. "I went to a mate's house to watch the FA Cup Final, everyone in the house was supporting the other team except the guy I sat next to. He was English, and I told him I was with him 100 per cent. Spurs won and I've supported them ever since." Footnotes References Patrick Keane, in association with Merv Hughes, Merv: the Full Story (Australia: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1997) External links 1961 births Living people Australia One Day International cricketers Australia Test cricketers Essex cricketers People from Euroa Test cricket hat-trick takers Victoria cricketers Wisden Cricketers of the Year ACT Comets cricketers Australia national cricket team selectors Australian cricketers Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal Werribee Football Club players Cricketers from Victoria (Australia) Cricketers at the 1992 Cricket World Cup I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (Australian TV series) participants Australian fishers Sportsmen from Victoria (Australia) People from Werribee, Victoria