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Speaker 1: Job mission with Jonesy and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: It was sad. Over the holidays we lost our good

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Speaker 2: friend Jonathan Coleman. Oh.

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Speaker 1: I was so so shocked and saddened. I knew he

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Speaker 1: had been unwell. I had no idea he was close

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Speaker 1: to the end there. That was so sad. And I

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Speaker 1: first met John Oh, you and I have both worked

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Speaker 1: with him many times over the years. When I first

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Speaker 1: started as a researcher at Simon Townsend's Wonder World.

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Speaker 2: What was your big stories? The paddle pop Factory, the

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Speaker 2: behind the scene expose of what goes on in the

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Speaker 2: paddle pop factory, all the pop line? Is he married?

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Speaker 2: Is there a missus?

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Speaker 1: Line?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 1: This was a show that Simon Townsend's Wonder World. I

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Speaker 1: know a lot of people remember John O from that show.

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Speaker 1: It was the first of its kind. It was magazine

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Speaker 1: style television. Four presenters, all had a different story, all

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Speaker 1: hosted by Simon, and this show was extraordinary. I was

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Speaker 1: only a researcher there, but some of my main friends

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Speaker 1: in my life of friends I met through that show

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Speaker 1: and we were all texting each other in the last

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Speaker 1: few days saying, weren't we lucky to have had that time?

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Speaker 1: And to work with inventive people like Jonathan Coleman. And

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Speaker 1: everyone said the same thing. Whether there are people who

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Speaker 1: just met him recently, people who just used to watch

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Speaker 1: him recently on Studio ten, wherever, people were who knew him,

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Speaker 1: they said he was a ray of sunshine, and he

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Speaker 1: absolutely was. He was a beam of goodness. He really was.

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Speaker 2: He was. It's interesting when I found out that he

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Speaker 2: passed away, I thought, gee, I was just talking to him.

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Speaker 2: I was talking to him a year ago in my holidays,

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Speaker 2: because remember Lockdown, the first one, we couldn't go anywhere.

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Speaker 2: I went down the YouTube wormhole and I ended up

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Speaker 2: watching an Ozzie movie called Midnight Spares. JOHNO played a

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Speaker 2: character called Wayne Grubb in it, who was this car

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Speaker 2: rebirthing guy. So he ran this takeaway store, but also

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Speaker 2: he had a car stealing racket on the side.

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Speaker 1: What ear was this?

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Speaker 2: This is nineteen eighty three. So I texted John and

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Speaker 2: I said, look at this. I sent him a picture

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Speaker 2: and he told me the whole story about it. He

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Speaker 2: said the movie a big flop. It was quite expensive.

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Speaker 2: But I thought he was really good, and I said,

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Speaker 2: you're really a great actor in this. You really pulled

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Speaker 2: it off, and in the end he ends up getting

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Speaker 2: stripped to his underwear and thrown off a bridge because said,

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Speaker 2: when's the sex scene and he goes, oh, that's when

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Speaker 2: I get thrown off the bridge. But yeah, a great guy.

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Speaker 2: And to Oscar and Emily and Margot you know, oh.

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Speaker 1: You know, he was such a family man. Family, his wife,

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Speaker 1: Margot and his kids were everything to him. And this

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Speaker 1: very sad days ahead for them as they.

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Speaker 2: Which I just can't imagine, I know, you know when

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Speaker 2: people pass away, just but you just think, wow, he's

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Speaker 2: actually gone. And I'll miss his random texts, you know,

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Speaker 2: because he always to send a text from time to time.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, he was a great, great human and he'll

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Speaker 1: be sadly missed.