AFL great Brendan Fevola was the subject of an embarrassing incident on breakfast radio on Wednesday morning when he suffered a cramp live on air.
Fevola was listening to co-host Fifi Box on their breakfast show Fifi, Fev & Nick, when out of nowhere his face grimaced as he suffered a leg cramp and fell off his chair to the ground.
‘He’s cramping…he’s fallen off the chair. Are you okay?’ Box asked.
‘Lawn bowls,’ Fevola yelled while lying on the studio floor.
The ex-Carlton forward blamed the cramp on an earlier game of lawn bowls.
‘Lawn bowls has taken him out,’ Box said as Fevola was clutching at his hamstring.
Brendan Fevola was involved in a funny on-air incident on Melbourne radio on Wednesday
Fevola suffered a cramp out of nowhere and took a tumble to the ground while live on-air
Sarah Hosking, who plays for Richmond in the AFLW, commented on the Instagram post showing Fevola taking a tumble.
‘Haha…he was launching 70m barrels at training yesterday…might have something to do with it,’ Hosking said.
Fans of the show found the surprising incident entertaining.
‘It was funny hearing it. Way funnier seeing it,’ an Instagram user wrote.
‘Time for body replacement,’ a third person said.
Fevola recently revealed that he was forced to briefly stop playing footy at the height of his glittering career after he was diagnosed with shingles.
He said that the pain had once become so bad that he was forced to skip training sessions.
‘The pain, it was excruciating,’ Fevola explained during an interview with 7NEWS.
Fevola hasn’t been afraid to share stories of his past injuries
Fevola’s stitches had opened up during a match – requiring him to go back to hospital
‘I think I’ve had like 22 operations and I’ve done knees and Achilles and shoulders and fingers, and this would have to be one of the worst pains I’ve felt.’
In September 2024, the 204-game AFL veteran opened up about the brutal injury that saw him taken to the emergency room after starring in his park footy team’s grand final.
The former Carlton and Brisbane forward laced up the boots in the Diamond Valley 35s decider, booting five goals in his team’s dominant 70-point win over Williamstown.
‘I did run the gauntlet because during the week I had a mole cut out,’ he said.
‘It was a bad one. They got it all. I had eight stitches in my back and the doctor said I wasn’t allowed to do any sport.
‘I go, “oh, I’ll have a quick shower”, so I got all my footy stuff out of the bag and I go, “oh God, my back’s a bit sore”. I pulled out my jumper and on my ‘5’ the top half of the 5 was just all blood. I go, “oh, is this (blood)?”
‘I got in the shower and ripped it off… I looked in the mirror and there’s a massive, big hole in my back.’