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Speaker 1: Jum Mission with Jonesy and Amanda Well. Much outpouring of

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Speaker 1: emotion for Bert Newton and the role he's played in

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Speaker 1: Australian television history, but so many interesting stories of his

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Speaker 1: generosity and kindness have come out. Yesterday, entertainment reporter Peter Ford,

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Speaker 1: who was a longtime friend of the Whole family's, shared

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Speaker 1: a story that he said Bert had told him it

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Speaker 1: just thirty one years ago. Bert said, don't tell this

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Speaker 1: story in Bert's words till I've carcked it. Really. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So what happened was that, Peter Ford said he had

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Speaker 1: a friend who was passing away from AIDS. I was

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Speaker 1: trying to find ways to cheer him up, so I

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Speaker 1: sent a whole bunch of cards and notes to different

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Speaker 1: celebrities asked if they could sign the card and send

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Speaker 1: it back to my friend. Everyone did it within a

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Speaker 1: week except Bert. About five days later, I went to

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Speaker 1: the hospital. As soon as I walked in, there was

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Speaker 1: a buzz. The guy at the front desk said, you're

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Speaker 1: not going to believe this. Bert Newton has been here

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Speaker 1: for the last two hours and has visited every patient.

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Speaker 1: Mister Ford said he went into his friend's room and

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Speaker 1: Bert had gifted him one of his logs, WHOA I Rang? Bert?

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Speaker 1: And he said, you can't ever report this until I've

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Speaker 1: carcked it. Wow. He left one of his logis wow.

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Speaker 1: And then I saw a Twitter thread yesterday just someone saying, look,

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Speaker 1: my parents used to run a milk barr in Surrey Hills.

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Speaker 1: Bert used to be a regular each Sunday on his

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Speaker 1: way to church, always charming. One day, my dad was away,

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Speaker 1: my aunt was filling in. She got a call from

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Speaker 1: her brother. She were a call saying that her brother

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Speaker 1: had died, and she was in shock. Burt happened to

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Speaker 1: drop in at that time and said what's happened? He said,

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Speaker 1: can I drive you to the country town where your

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Speaker 1: dad lives so I can help you break the news.

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Speaker 1: She said she's not even sure where the dad was.

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Speaker 1: She was a bit in shock, but said what can

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Speaker 1: I do? Can I help you in any way? He

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Speaker 1: bought Brandy to calm the aunt, and then, as it

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Speaker 1: says here, the TV's biggest star took over shopkeeper duties

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Speaker 1: until my mum could get there. What a lovely man,

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Speaker 1: and just seems that these are stories. Bert was looking

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Speaker 1: for no recognition with any of these stories. People. My

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Speaker 1: cousin from Rock Hampden says someone sat next to on

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Speaker 1: a plane got chatting. Bert organized tea. It's for my

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Speaker 1: cousin and his family to see Burt in the Wizard

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Speaker 1: of Old. Such a gracious and giving man. These are

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Speaker 1: stories that Bert never wanted or knew or expected to

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Speaker 1: be public. What a lovely thing. The world is a

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Speaker 1: poorer place without him. There's now a push, which is interesting,

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Speaker 1: to name the Gold Logi in his honor. Eddie McGuire

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Speaker 1: Molly Meldrum are leading this campaign. So we still they'd

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Speaker 1: be the Logies, but the Gold Logi would be called

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Speaker 1: the Burt He won four Gold Logis, he hosted the

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Speaker 1: awards twenty times. He was an inductee into the Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame. I think that's a brilliant, a brilliant idea

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Speaker 1: that should happen, that should be stamped right now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think so. To put your hands on the birdie

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Speaker 1: absolutely at the Logies. Jonesy and Amanda's dea