Sporting legend. Seasoned broadcaster. SA icon. That’s Cornesy.
Matt Riemann on helping Oprah Winfrey around during her recent trip to Adelaide
“I think it is actually one of her favourite places… When she first came, she said I really want to have an experience, I travel everywhere, I’m in a car to a hotel to an event etc. so that’s why when she was here, I said alright I’m gonna give you a full experience of Adelaide. She was only here a couple of days, but we really covered a lot.”
Bec Daniher on Neale Daniher’s current condition with MND
“Dad hasn’t been able to talk for about 5 years. He lost use of his hands and that was where it first targeted him and his legs were always strong until probably the last 12 months. He spends most of his time in his wheelchair, so that’s been a big shift for us… He needs around the clock care, so he needs to have someone acting as his carer 24/7 and as someone who was very independent and driven, to have that independence taken away is very challenging.”
Brian Nankervis on Daryl Somers being reluctant to keep him on ‘Hey Hey It’s Saturday’ after his first performance
“I really look back on those Hey Hey days very fondly. I did find out a couple of years ago that in fact after my first performance Daryl (Somers) was not so sure… it was very big, it was very over the top but it sort of worked in small doses… but the week after I did my first spot he was having his hair cut and his barber said “get that guy on again.”
James Begley on his sporting talent venture with Matthew Pavlich
“I actually started a tech business with Matthew Pavlich about 8-10 years ago… so we created a website which allowed anyone in Australia to log on and pitch a description of what they wanted the sports star to do… It just allows the simple brokerage between those who want talent and those talent who are hungry to do more and how do you at scale matchmake just like you would with a tradie on air tasker or you might like to buy and sell stuff on Amazon.”
Former Liberal opposition leader, David Spiers, on how a photo ended up being taken of him with a white substance
“How on earth Graham. My life was in a bad place, it’s not an excuse and I was around people doing that and I didn’t know the photo was being taken… I am an idiot and that’s using very gentle language and I stuffed up incredibly. I destroyed or potentially destroyed my life, and I will be rebuilding it for a long time.”
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