A-list actor Charlie Hunnam enrages Aussies as he ruthlessly slams the world-famous coffee in major city as a ‘mockery’ of the beverage: ‘It sucks!’

Charlie Hunnam has bravely risked the wrath of an entire nation by ruthlessly slating Australian coffee. 

The British actor appeared on Australia’s ABC breakfast radio show this week when he was asked to share his thoughts about the country.  

The Sons of Anarchy star, 45, admitted that while he is fond of Melbourne, he takes issue with the citizens of the Victorian city for claiming it has excellent coffee. 

‘I’m tired of people talking about the coffee. I like a strong, punchy cup of dark roast black coffee where, like, the spoon will stand straight up,’ he said.

‘It’s going to be highly controversial, get ready. I think your coffee sucks. It’s like a lukewarm, milky, coffee milkshake. I’m like, that’s not a cup of coffee to me.’ 

Further shocking the show’s host, Charlie continued his brutal assessment of Melbourne’s world-famous coffee culture. 

‘Leave the coffee alone. And stop, for the love of God, claiming you have the best coffee in the world, because you’re making a mockery of it,’ he ranted. 

Charlie was kinder about Melbourne as a whole, adding, ‘Melbourne is one of my favourite cities in the world – maybe my favourite city in the world.’ 

The actor is riding high on the success of his lauded role in the Netflix series Monster: The Ed Gein Story, in which he plays the infamous serial killer. 

It comes after Charlie and his longtime girlfriend, Morgana McNelis, made a rare joint appearance at the 2025 Emmy Awards in Los Angeles last month. 

The notoriously private couple, who have been together for more than two decades, posed arm-in-arm on the red carpet Sunday evening, flashing warm smiles as they leaned into each other for photos.

The Pacific Rim star cut a dashing figure in a sleek double-breasted Saint Laurent suit jacket, paired with a midnight-blue silk shirt left slightly unbuttoned.

Meanwhile, McNelis, 42, stunned in a golden satin gown that draped elegantly over her figure, featuring a plunging neckline.

Back in 2020, Hunnam explained he feels ‘indifferent’ to the institution of marriage after tying the knot with actress, Katharine Towne, for the first time at age 18.

The former couple wed in Las Vegas after a whirlwind three weeks of dating in 1999, before divorcing in 2002. 

When asked if he had any future plans to walk down the aisle again on Andy Cohen’s SiriusXM radio show, Hunnam said he would get hitched again, though begrudgingly.

‘I’ll do it because it’s important to her but I don’t have any great romantic feelings towards it,’ he said of marrying McNelis. 

He quickly retracted the comments just a few weeks later as he explained to TooFab that his remarks were ‘a stupid thing to say.’ 

‘That really hurt my girlfriend’s feelings and I really regretted saying that,’ the Queer as Folk actor admitted. 

‘I actually didn’t mean it at all, it was, frankly, just stupid s**t I said in the heat of the moment.’ 

Hunnam continued: ‘I’m, like, so romantic, and the reality is I sort of consider myself married. I’ve been with my girlfriend for 14 years. I suppose what I was trying to articulate the official government sanction of it doesn’t mean anything to me but the romance of it means an enormous amount.’ 

The star went on to blame his comments on spending ’12 hours a day for three days doing interviews.’