Bert Newton out of hospital

Good news with Bert ‘Moonface’ Newton, 72, discharged from Epworth Hospital yesterday after being treated for pneumonia.

The TV legend is due to spend a week recuperating with family, but is itching to get back to work on Wicked, currently being staged in Perth.

”I’m much better today than I was two weeks ago,” he said.

”The time spent here has been so worthwhile and I’m looking forward to getting back to work – I’m not a very happy person when I’m not working.’

“It came as a bit of a shock, especially when you enjoy good health, which I have done.

“But so long as I do my best, the doctors tell me do exactly what they say, and I’ll be back on stage very very soon.”

However the “wake-up call” hadn’t prompted any talk of calling it quits by the man who is addicted to performing.

“It’s the old story. What I do, I don’t see as a job, I see it as something I love doing and it’s a very important part of my life.

“If I didn’t have my family and work, I couldn’t imagine life,” he said.

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, Herald Sun