Matches, Hatches, Dispatches

You mean, now we know why she left Farmer Wants A Wife? It would be awkward for her to host a show with that title. Headlines will be: Farmer Doesn’t Want A Wife.

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Jess Fox has split with her partner of nine years, French professional slalom canoeist Mathieu Biazizzo.

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I was meaning the move to a new franchise on 9, and dabbling in breakfast television again. But yes Farmer before that too.

Quite a row of unexpected deaths of East Asian celebrities lately:

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Channel Nine’s NRL presenter Emma Lawrence gave birth to her first child, a girl named Harper, on November 28. Emma continued to work throughout the recent NRL finals and Pacific Championships.

https://www.instagram.com/emmalawrence19/p/DDOwAsavF4P/?hl=en&img_index=1

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Of course, famous, or infamous, for his tired and emotional speech at the 1973 TV Week Logie Awards, for which he spent much of the days immediately following apologising for his behaviour

YouTube: @rhettrospective

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Bert Newton handled his drunkenness brilliantly. No one but Bert would’ve been able to do it so well.

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The Victorian Government announced this morning that the state funeral for Neale Fraser would be held next Wednesday (December 18) at 10.30am at Melbourne’s St Patrick’s Cathedral.

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I miss having someone like Bert on TV. He was like no other (except maybe Graham Kennedy).

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in 1973 it was a national outrage when Michael Cole said “sh!t” on live TV.

This year, Celia Pacquola shouted “someone at Channel 7 has f****k me…!” at the Logies and it just passes with a bit of a snigger :laughing:

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ABC radio reporting the death of Hugh Cornish the first person on Queensland TV overnight at the age of 90.

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Media personality Clive Robertson has passed away aged 78.

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I remember Clive Robertson most when he hosted Newsworld on Seven in the late 1980s, up against Graham Kennedy’s Coast to Coast on Nine.

Very sad news.

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RIP Clive. We will miss you.

He was once on ABC Fine Music doing breakfast, I never listened, I think his favourite music was classical.

https://radioinfo.com.au/news/abc-classic-fm-changes-its-tune/

https://radioinfo.com.au/news/clive-robertson-axed-abc-classic-fm/

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Well it’s good our society has progressed :sunglasses:

some might say that is regressing rather than progressing

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A lovely & heart warming interview with Jason Morrison on ABC News Radio with Sarah___ discussing Jason’s friendship & last moments with Clive Robertson. Heard between 5.30 & 5.47pm AEDST.

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