Camera IconTelethon Stars arrive at Perth Airport ahead of the Telethon event on the Weekend. Pictured is Jess Mauboy with Fat Cat Justin Benson-Cooper Credit: Justin Benson-Cooper/The West Australian
Telethon: TV, music and Camera IconCelebrity arrivals at Perth Airport. The Wiggles Lucia Field and Tsehay Hawkins. Jackson Flindell Credit: Jackson Flindell/The West Australian
The pair will return to RAC Arena on November 21-22 with the rest of their crew for The Wiggles’ Sparkle! BIG SHOW.
For The Chase’s David Poltorak, better known as The Professor, he’ll be hoping his lip syncing skills prove as impressive as his tri
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Camera IconCelebrity arrivals at Perth Airport. Six of the Ten Tenors. Credit: Jackson Flindell/The West Australian
A trio of screen stars left home at Summer Bay for a weekend away in Perth, as returning pair Kyle Shilling and Hailey Pinto educated newcomer Rocco Forrester-Sach on what the weekend means.
Shilling declared “the highlight is always the hospital visit”, while Pinto was adamant she would be invited back to Perth in what will be her third “magical weekend”.
“I told them after my first Telethon here that I have to come every year, so I was just automatically put down on the list,” she said.
Forrester-Sach admitted he wasn’t aware of Telethon’s profound reach until Pinto clued him in.
“She told me all about it and how it’s a charity raising money, and we get to meet kids, and I’m just so delighted and grateful to be here,” he said.
Leading the next batch of arrivals was The Voice Australia coach Kate Miller-Heidke.
With experience performing for rapturous Eurovision crowds, in her first Telethon appearance the singer is hoping for equally voracious cheers at RAC Arena.
“That’s what I’m picturing, Eurovision,” she beamed.
“I’ve been told that it’s absolutely epic. I still don’t quite have a proper understanding of the scale of it. It’s just massive. But my mate Ronan Keating was here last year, and he said he had a brilliant time.”
Fellow Eurovision alumnus and Telethon veteran Jessica Mauboy could not stop smiling after arriving in Perth, posing for photos with fans and reminiscing on previous visits.
“You always want to give as much as you can for the kids and for the families, and I guess encourage
Camera IconNatalie Barr and Matt Shirvington from Sunrise with Fat Cat. Credit: Justin Benson-Cooper/The West Australian
“That’s the best welcome to an airport we’ve ever had,” she declared.
“Being greeted by Fat Cat and skipping off the plane, and being greeted by smiling school kids with signs, that just kicks off the weekend. It’s a brilliant weekend. We love coming here, and that just sets the tone.”
Fellow Sunrise personality Karen Ledbury said she loves “the community that is WA” in what she believes his her 12th year of Telethon, with Shirvo hailing the State his “second home” due to the warm embrace he continues to receive.
The former sprinter understands the 26-hour broadcast more closely resembles a marathon, and has learned that “everything you do pumps the energy in” to get through it.
Some of the final big names to arrive were The Morning Show favourites Larry Emdur, Kylie Gillies, and Sally Bowrey, whose antics on-air continued in the air en route to Perth.
Emdur joked he and Kylie “are frightened to sleep because we know the other one will take a photo of us sleeping and post it on Instagram”.
“I know Kylie was desperate for sleep on the plane, but had one eye opened the whole time, going, ‘He’s going to get a photo,” he added.
“It’s actually a true story because I did not sleep. Yeah, I’m a bit tired now,” Gillies teased.
The pair will be called upon for respective lip sync performances, which have long been a weekend highlight, alongside “crazy” Seven colleague Shirvo who Emdur suggested would be going for gold.
“Who would have thought an Olympian would be competitive?” Gillies quipped.
Watch Telethon on 7 and 7pus from 6.45pm Saturday October 17, through to 8.30pm Sunday October 18.
