Fall now behind veteran TV host
VETERAN journalist Mike Willesee is counting down the days until he can leave Cairns Hospital and return to his Coogee home.
The 76-year-old Logie Hall of Fame inductee was flown from the Torres Strait to Cairns Hospital on Monday after suffering a fall.
A Cairns Hospital spokesman said the former current affair show host was in a stable condition.
He said Willesee said he was “happy with the wonderful care he’s receiving but looking forward to going home.”
He said the patient flow unit was liaising with the treating team to find out exactly how soon Willesee could return to Sydney.
Willesee revealed his battle with throat cancer last year, and has since spoken openly about fighting an illness that has affected his trademark feature: his voice.
Willesee went public last November when he became part of clinical trial for the cancer discovered in his throat.
Willesee was being treated with the revolutionary drug Keytruda, in combination with the more traditional chemotherapy.
Willesee told The Australian last year that his check-ups had been positive since the treatment and that there was now no sign of the cancer.
Willesee is best known for his work with the ABC and Channel 9 and was inducted into the Logies Hall of Fame in 2002 for his work on current affair show Willesee.
Willesee’s children include fellow journalists Amy Willesee and Michael Willesee Jr. He is also the father-in-law of reporter Allison Langdon and journalist Mark Whittaker.
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WHEN it comes to dressing men in bright prints for the races, Colleen Leach struggles most to dress “blue boys”.
The Man Overboard sales assistant said blue was the comfort zone that most men didn’t want to step out of.
“A lot of guys are blue boys, so to speak, and that’s why we do keep a lot of blue in the store,” she said. “If you are a blue boy you can always do a colourful shirt and tone it down with a stone coloured chino or a grey chino.”
She said it was simple to incorporate colour and print into a races look.
“If you’re going with a really colourful David Smith shirt you tend to not do a tie, you don’t do both,” she said.
“A lot of guys in our beautiful winter and autumn don’t wear suits to the races, they wear shorts.
“A colourful short, an interesting shirt and a great hat is a perfect Cairns races look.”
She said nailing a colourful races look for a Cairns man always came down to two things – comfort and confidence.
“Guys have to be comfortable, and you can tell if they’re not comfortable. If you haven’t worn a colourful shirt before, don’t wear a colourful pant, just go with a nice chino, and that way you have that burst of colour,” she said.
“Once they’ve stepped into the colour and become comfortable they’ll get a lot of compliments and that makes them come back to get another.”