diff --git a/pkg/eventshub/forwarder/forwarder.go b/pkg/eventshub/forwarder/forwarder.go
index 8d755187..e0d2e833 100644
--- a/pkg/eventshub/forwarder/forwarder.go
+++ b/pkg/eventshub/forwarder/forwarder.go
@@ -165,6 +165,8 @@ func (o *Forwarder) ServeHTTP(writer http.ResponseWriter, request *http.Request)
 	req := request.Clone(requestCtx)
 	// It is an error to set this field in an HTTP client request.
 	req.RequestURI = ""
+	// We don't want to use the original request Host header, so drop it from the clone
+	req.Host = ""
 
 	u, err := url.Parse(o.Sink)
 	if err != nil {