YT EXTRA STROP DELVENE AND PAUL.mp4 G’day viewers. We've selected the
highlights of all the shows we've done this year, all the most popular segments stack them all
together in one lump and for the want of a more imaginative title, called them the best of Hoges.
Have a look and see what you think. Ready mate?
John Cornell is a really clever man and he guided Paul’s career.
John, from day one, saw the genius of Hoge's and always was the one who recognised it and loved it.
He knew what to do with me. No one else did. Otherwise,
I'd probably have still been on the bridge if he hadn’t been there.
The wonderful thing preserving wildlife isn’t it, mate?
Strop started on television because they needed a cheap
actor for a sketch. And so John stepped in never, ever conscious of the budget.
Strop, do your fly up Strop.
Strop is like the eternal clown hiding behind a pervert's facade. He was banned from our house. My
mother was mortified, but I told her I'm dating John Cornell. Who? I'm dating Strop. But then
she met John and realised that there was this genius, intelligent mind behind that façade.
Hello Delvene, how are you? Fine thank you.
Tell me, when you’re paraded before the judges, what do you think about?
The least possible thing I try to have my mind just concentrate on what I'm doing.
I was what you would refer to these days as a slashy - model slash beauty queen,
slash TV presenter, slash general dog’s body.
She was the Queensland weather girl. At some sort of television function. I said to John,
you know, ‘I found a girl for you’.
John and I met in 1975 in a hotel in Paddington. When he approached me and said, ‘You don't know
me, I'm John Cornell, would you like to be on The Paul Hogan Show? And I said, ‘Yes please’.
You know, when I went for my first meeting, they asked, can you play
a nun? Yep. Can you play a schoolgirl? Yep. Prostitute? Yep. Whatever you want me to do.
Let’s look at our chart and see how things went. Quite a mixed bag, as you can see today
was mostly by this from up here in the Gulf region down through the Kimberleys.
For someone as pretty as she was, there was also no vanity attached.
There was real affection between Delvene, John and Paul, and it
showed in the performances and it showed in their attitudes.
Great party, Hoges.
They just had fun doing.
Great shows, I loved it. It was I think it was nine years that I
did The Paul Hogan Show. And I remember my last one and I stood in the studio
and I just bawled my eyes out, because it was the end of such a fantastic era.
Unfortunately, John, in his heyday, when he was at his very best, got early signs of Parkinson's.
It was kept low key about because he didn't
want to become the Parkinson’s guy, like Michael J. Fox did.
And Delvene’s magic. Never stops and looks after him. No, they're just just terrific
people. But John doesn't want…he came down with me at the last time I got an award,
but mostly he doesn't want to get out in public and be gawked at. There’s nothing wrong up here,
it's just a little trouble communicating. John’s 78 coming up to 79. Which is amazing to me.
Because me, we've been together 44 years, so to watch Parkinson's Disease steal his life is sad,
confronting and challenging. More for him. The worst thing that's come from
that is the deterioration in his speech because John was always the raconteur,
always had the funniest stories at the table. And so for that to go was a crushing blow.
Excuse me, I've just been out there shelling the
peas and fabuloling the frilly things, what we sheilas with.
But lately, he's been having fantastic results
from his voice therapy sessions. And he's got his voice back.
So that, to me is a prayer also because we can have g reat conversations again,
it's lifted his spirits. He's still very involved in our hotel. He's up there most days. He's
a happy grandfather. He has a good circle of friends in Byron Bay is he's in a happy place.