Matches, Hatches, Dispatches

Front page of Sunday Herald Sun today

and The Sunday Telegraph

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Everyone remembers Dame Edna and Sir Les Patterson, and some even Sandy Stone. But one I wasn’t aware of was Big Sonia, appearing on Seven’s The Entertainers in 1969.

Source: TV Week

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Thank you so much for sharing

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They met on season 3 of Bachelor in Paradise in 2020 and left the show as a couple.

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Earlier

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Dame Edna Everage has “paid tribute” to her alter-ego Barry Humphries in a self-penned obituary.

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Would Barry have written that? Or is someone jumping on the bandwagon? :thinking:

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Published in The Telegraph , the short, tongue-in-cheek letter details how Humphries and the Dame’s professional relationship began and how her star eclipsed his.

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Awwww.

He thought ahead. I like that.

Probably done from his hospital bed in his last few days.

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Barry Humphries also wrote his own obituary for The Age more than 40 years ago.

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Another well-known entertainer has died.

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Father Bob Maguire’s state funeral will be held at 11am AEST on Friday, May 5, at St Patrick’s Cathedral in East Melbourne. The funeral is open to the public and will also be streamed live online on the Victorian Government website.

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