This Is Your Life

But however, I, um, on, in the height of kind of the, my EastEnders time, when it was all the who shot Phils, this, that, and the other, and Martin Kemp, um, was on the show.

He, um, from Spandau obviously, and um, he had, uh, Martin Kemp had, had This Is Your Life.

And so I was obviously part of the audience, you know, in his, part of his kind of set up, um, you know, on, on the set.

And George was one of the guests.

Along the way, she's covered the Beaconsfield mine disaster, the Queensland floods, Black Saturday, Royal events, four Olympic Games and some of the biggest stories in Australia and around the world.

She later became host and senior correspondent of Sunday Night, anchored award-recognised Seven News coverage, held the big red book for This Is Your Life and continues to connect with audiences on Smooth FM.

as well as on television.

Now, after the first episode of this new season has aired, I am delighted to welcome one of Australian television's most trusted broadcasters to TV Central for the first time.

And I think any good interview is not necessarily following your script, but is letting it go along a path and see where the the talent takes you and and picking up what they're putting down so yeah it was it was a really different experience but i um i loved it i loved going deeper i you know i'd spent so much of my my time in in news and sunrise that was you know relatively short interviews so having the chance to really spend weeks researching a topic and and you know, finding out as much information as I could and interviewing as many people around that particular topic as I could and then doing the main interview and having the time to do it was such a fabulous luxury.

Well, let's go down a different path now.

You were the proud holder of the big red book for Four This Is Your Life specials in 2022, celebrating Ian Thorpe, Rebecca Gibney, Home and Away's Ray Ma and Tina Arena.

They were beautifully constructed, properly emotional event television, and The Revival found a strong audience.

from the Sopranos from what was his name Bobby Bacalar shyness is a curse

Deep Dive, the TV show, This Is Your Life.

Well, we did one of them, didn't we? Did we do Red Holes? Yeah, that's a rich seam of content, I think.

This Is Your Life, Deep Dives.

Yeah, you know, what's his name from, I've heard the same pet, the main one, their leader.

Tim Healy.

So his son is the lead singer of the 1975, right? That's correct,

yeah.

Thank you very much.

This is like This Is Your Life or something.

Is that another gift for Diane?

Bring it up.

Laurel and Hardy would make only one more appearance together.

This was on television, when they were interviewed on the American version of This Is Your Life, on 1 December 1954.

Hardy died aged 65 in August 1957, and after that Laurel refused to perform on stage or act in films without his best friend.

In February 1965, just over a decade after the comedy legend's final stage performance, Stan Laurel died at the age of 74 in Los Angeles.

with our harmonies, thrift shop aesthetic, freewheeling covers, and the faith the other girls put in my songs.

After dinner in the front bar, the trends formed into a rambunctious episode of This Is Your Life, with friends appearing from across the years, the Parsons art school punk days, early band and married life and parenthood era, temp years and solo artist genesis.

I felt a chill that had nothing to do with the winter air and wet snow outside.

Charles had arrived.

Yeah.

This Is Your Life.

This Is Your Life, yeah.

I love that bloody show.

Was it Eamonn, Eamonn?

Mm.

God, we're showing our age.

I always thought of it, 'cause I, I never fancied that This Is Your Life, so they don't tell you, but my agent was under strict instructions if they ever asked me.

I met him.

Yeah, did you? Martin Kemp's This Is Your Life.

It was lovely.

Oh, Maria took me to see him.