A veteran talkback radio and TV personality will face court later this year after he was charged with drink driving for a third time.
Jeremy Nicholas Cordeaux, 79, who spent almost six decades working in radio and TV was pulled over by police in the car park of Feathers Hotel in Burnside in Adelaide’s east on November 11 last year.
Cordeaux, 79, was charged with one count of driving with excess blood alcohol after after allegedly returned a blood alcohol reading of 0.108- more than twice the 0.05 legal limit, according to police documents filed to the court.
The former FIVEaa presenter didn’t attend Adelaide Magistrates Court for a scheduled hearing regarding the matter on Tuesday.
His lawyer Hugh Woods told the magistrate he’d need more time to discuss the case with his client, the Adelaide Advertiser reported.
‘Your Honour, I’m asking for an adjournment to take final instructions from my client,’ Mr Woods said.
Magistrate Christopher Smolicz adjourned the matter, with Cordeaux due to face court in October.
Cordeaux was previously been busted for drink driving while returning from a Christmas party in 2016.
Former radio and TV star Jeremy Cordeaux has been charged with drink driving a third time
He lost his licence for six months, fined $950. and ordered to pay $520 in court costs.
A conviction was also recorded.
Cordeaux told The Advertiser the 2016 offence was because his wife drove to a Christmas party but was unable to drive home.
‘I decided I would do the chivalrous thing, and that was a very bad thing to have done,’ he said.
He was also pinged for the same offence in 2019.
In 2021, he was disqualified from driving for another six months after pleaded guilty to driving with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.056 on Glen Osmond Rd.
Cordeaux was sacked from his longstanding presenter role at FIVEaa radio station in 2021 after dismissing Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations as being no more than ‘a silly little girl who got drunk’ during an on-air segment.
Cordeaux allegedly returned a blood alcohol reading of 0.108, more than twice the legal limit
Cordeaux was fired from Adelaide radio for comments he made about Brittany Higgins and her rape accusations
‘I just ask myself why the Prime Minister (Scott Morrison) doesn’t call it out for what it is – a silly little girl who got drunk,’ Cordeaux said.
FiveAA breakfast host David Penberthy later announced that Cordeaux’s contract had been ‘terminated’.
In a statement read on air, Penberthy apologised to Ms Higgins and withdrew the comments.
‘Mr Cordeaux’s employment has been terminated and FiveAA and Nova Entertainment have immediately taken broader action to ensure this can never happen again,’ he said.
‘The views expressed by Jeremy Cordeaux do not reflect those held by FiveAA and Nova Entertainment and we unequivocally withdraw them.’
The sacking ended a long career in television and radio in Sydney and Adelaide.