BREAKING: Legendary Australian journalist Mike Willesee has died aged 76 after a battle with throat cancer. He graced our television screens for decades and will be sorely missed.
The birthday cake questions, or rather Hewson’s embarrassing inability to clearly answer them, were credited with costing the Liberals the election – which had been dubbed unlosable.
He notoriously conducted a live phone interview on air in 1993 with two children who were being held hostage by their father. The decision sparked significant public backlash. Newsreader Brian Henderson and TV journalist Mike Willesee at Channel 9 studios in 1987 Pic Geoff Henderson.during the show’s golden era. On one night in particular, he spared controversy by appearing to host the show while intoxicated but later insisted he was on heavy medication.
Willesee was inducted into the TV WEEK Logies Hall of Fame in 2002 and despite stepping back from the limelight, continued to make the odd small screen appearance.program from 2012, sitting down with prominent figures from billionaire James Packer to then-Prime Minister Julia Gillard.Australian Story.“I was getting sick and I had a lot of pain in one side of my jaw. It was cancer. The prognosis wasn’t very good. Six to 12 months,” he said.
Willesee was married to former Miss Australia Joan Stanbury and had two children, Michael and Katie. He later married actress and model Carol Brent in 1976, and the couple had daughters Amy, Lucy and Jo.
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