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Re: WDYTYA is coming to SBSTV in OZ
« Reply #414 on: Wednesday 20 February 08 08:48 GMT (UK) »
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Re: WDYTYA is coming to SBSTV in OZ
« Reply #415 on: Wednesday 20 February 08 08:49 GMT (UK) »
...or Geoff Jansz

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Re: WDYTYA is coming to SBSTV in OZ
« Reply #416 on: Wednesday 20 February 08 08:54 GMT (UK) »
Kamahl is Sri Lankan, I think - no Aussie ancestry, anyway.  And I don't know who Geoff Jansz is!

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Re: WDYTYA is coming to SBSTV in OZ
« Reply #417 on: Wednesday 20 February 08 08:58 GMT (UK) »
i think unless the person is indigenous they are all going to have uk or european ancestry not too far back.
how about someone that is infamous not famous. eric edgar cook the last man hung in wa could be interesting. would he have in his background anything that made him in to what he became

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That would be interesting, Perth, but he wouldn't be very responsive in an interview  :-\ ;)

lol prue hed be as good as some of the people on reality tv over here ;D they could do it through his son tony  the former trade union leader

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Re: WDYTYA is coming to SBSTV in OZ
« Reply #418 on: Wednesday 20 February 08 08:58 GMT (UK) »
I thought of GEoff Jansz after I thought of Kamahl...he's a TV cook, was big about 5 years ago, and his ancestry (from what I recall...) is also Sri Lankan.  As is Jamie Durie's, I think?

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« Reply #419 on: Wednesday 20 February 08 08:59 GMT (UK) »

lol prue hed be as good as some of the people on reality tv over here ;D they could do it through his son tony  the former trade union leader

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Ahhh!  Yes, that could be an interesting angle actually...good idea!

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« Reply #420 on: Wednesday 20 February 08 09:07 GMT (UK) »

lol prue hed be as good as some of the people on reality tv over here ;D they could do it through his son tony  the former trade union leader

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Ahhh!  Yes, that could be an interesting angle actually...good idea!

lol thanks prue its not often i have them

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Re: WDYTYA is coming to SBSTV in OZ
« Reply #421 on: Wednesday 20 February 08 11:27 GMT (UK) »
Oh yes, Ernie Dingo would be interesting - I wonder what his story is?  I have read that he has a temperamental personality, so unsure how responive he'd be.

I hate sport but on the UK series the sporty types came across really well and had interesting ancestry, even though I didn't know who some of them were - doesn't seem to get in the way of a god yarn. 

Interesting people may not have an hours worth of traceable interesting family history I suppose.

Gary McDonald would be a good one, but he suffers from depression I think.

Geoff Jansz - personable fellow - could be a possible. Cate Blanchett - yes, but might be too busy - with academy award nominations she'll be getting lots of film offers.

Trish, did you mean John Waters the Actor? He's been around for years and is currently in "All Saints"- anyway I think he's a pommy. Or did you mean John Walters who I think may be a sports person of some sort .... think I'm getting confused here.

Maybe these suggestions will give Diana and her team some inspiration  ;D.

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« Reply #422 on: Wednesday 20 February 08 11:31 GMT (UK) »
Ah Ruskie - I meant John Waters - maybe because I mentioned cricket I confused him with Doug Walters - cricketer in the 1960s.

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