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Vale: Bobo Faulkner

Veteran performer Bobo Faulkner, best known for breakfast television in the 1960s, has died.

2014-12-29_2156Veteran performer Bobo Faulkner, best known for presenting on breakfast television in the 1960s, has died, aged 73.

She died following a battle with cancer in the UK.

Born Ann Minchin, she married actor Trader Faulkner and worked as a model, including being photographed for Vogue. She was subsequently hired to add a “woman’s touch” to GTV9’s breakfast show Today (not associated with current version), hosted by Mike Walsh, presenting fashion and fitness segments.

She also appeared in Division Four plus comedy series The Group and served as a columnist on The Australian.

Source: TelevisionAU, smh.com.au

6 Responses

  1. @daveinprogress – Chuck Faulkner was a newsreader at TCN9. With a name like “Chuck”he had, of course, a strong American accent, which was in some way supposed to offset ABC’s strong BBC-ish accents. Last heard of when he was involved in an armed holdup of the TEN North Ryde pay office, looooong ago.

  2. She also hosted the late movies on Fri & Sat nights on TCN9 when Bill Collins left (or prior to) from the converted cleaner’s storeroom in the basement, cutely named ‘Studio 3’.
    Sad to see another of the true professionals pass.

  3. Wow there’s a name I haven’t hears or thought of for 40 years! I was thinking she may have been a panellist on Beauty and the Beast; either with John Laws or someone of that vintage? Chuck Faullkner?
    Beautiful lady!

    1. Hadn’t heard that story on Chuck Faulkner, but archival newspapers indicate he was indeed charged in 1966 (not clear on the outcome but it did not thwart his career, including a later role as a Division 4 detective). He died in the US in 2000.

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