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Graham Kennedy dies

Most of you outside Australia wont have heard, but a TV icon that I and many other Australians of my generation, grew up with, sadly died this morning.

As a kid I used to love watching his adlib approach to live television on IMT (In Melbourne Tonight) and advertisers queued to have their products sent up or destroyed on camera by him. You just can't imagine today's marketers being able to handle his style of corporate terrorism.

Also as a very young child I did meet him and his sidekick Bert Newton at a local fair near the family home.

In recent years he became a recluse and opted to turn his back on Australian Television, to live a quiet life in Bowral (in New South Wales). He suffered a bad fall a few years ago that effected his health.

So at 71 the legendary Graham Kennedy has left us.

posted by grechy @ 1:53 pm