6 hours Ago By Digital Staff
There are plenty of moments we regret from our past ...
and most of us have done a silly thing or two when celebrating a mate’s birthday or wedding. It’s rare, however, to go on radio 13 years later and make a public confession about it. But that’s exactly what former Melbourne and Adelaide star Bernie Vince has done, while also admitting that he would never utter a word of it again.
Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today Speaking on SAFM’s new breakfast show, Bernie & Emma G, Vince was taking calls from listeners about embarrassing ‘toilet’ stories when he decided to come to clean on a long-held and embarrassing secret of his own. Vince started his playing career with the Crows in 2006, before switching to Melbourne for the 2014 season and retiring after 229 games at the end of 2018. But this story happened in 2010 when his mate and Adelaide legend Rory Sloane was celebrating his 21st birthday.
The speeches had started and Vince suddenly found himself in desperate need of relieving himself. “I’ve been told to never tell this story ..
. I got told to never tell it within 12 years,” Vince said while checking his watch. “I’ll never talk about this again.
This is the only time I can get this off my chest because we’re talking about it, (but) I don’t think we’ll go down this path again so I need to tell it now. “The speeches were on right near the toilet door, and I was busting, and I was, ‘Oh, I should have gone’. And then I didn’t realise there’s going to be three, four, five speeches.
So (I’m thinking), ‘This goes for a fair while’. “So someone gave me the idea: ‘Oh, there’s a few empty schooner glasses here’. “I know that’s a bit disgusting .
.. There was one of those high tables with a tablecloth and I just peeled it up and it was discreet.
No one sort of knew it until we were laughing, and I was just lining them up and I’m like, ‘I’m going to need more’. “This was while the speeches were on; filled up five or six (schooners) ..
. and then I got caught. “There was one of those bubble cameras at the establishment.
It was on, it was like the perfect camera right above and I was laughing and guess who was handing me the empty glasses: My dad, my dear dad, who was there as well and a bloke out of the (team’s) leadership group that ended up telling me off for it. He gave me the idea! “Now it’s off my chest, I feel better. “I tipped it out in the toilet after, and I got rid of the glass, so that was all good.
“But I was made by the football club to go back and apologise to the function manager, and he made me watch the footage and you reckon I couldn’t hold in a laugh. “There you go. I’ve got that off my chest.
We’ll never talk about weeing again, I think I’m done.” Vince, a popular and beloved larrikin in AFL circles, recently joined the SAFM breakfast show after his Triple M Rush Hour program was replaced. When he heard the news that the Adelaide Rush Hour was getting the chop, he said it was “tough” to digest.
“It’s not often you get cut when you’re at the top of your game,” he said at the time. “We know it’s a brutal industry and if you’re not going well, you’re never safe. “But when we’re rating number one and really cutting through, it’s a bit of a different situation.
It just never happens.”.
