Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery: April 6

 

This week Home Delivery features the last new episode of the series with guest Kerri-Anne Kennerley.

This episode was due to air a few weeks ago but was thoughtfully rescheduled following husband John’s accident.

The episode sees KAK head back to Sandgate in Queensland and to QTQ studios in Brisbane.

She will also answer Julia Zemiro’s question on her worst-ever career choice (it was a Nine show!).

Next week Home Delivery reverts to repeat episodes in the same timeslot.

Kerri-Anne Kennerley has spent 50 years on Australian television screens. She meets up with Julia back where it all began – in the Brisbane coastal suburb of Sandgate. But the house in which she grew up, built by her father’s own hands, no longer stands.

Kerri-Anne describes a typical Queensland childhood, one of four children in a close- knit family, and of how she was the ‘annoying’ youngest sibling who always wanted to tag along with her brothers and sister.

She reveals she wanted to be in show business for as long as she can remember. Before the family had one of their own, she used to walk over the hill in her pyjamas to watch television through the electronics shop window, all the while dreaming of being on the tele herself.

Kerri-Anne and Julia then jump into a 1970s Valiant Charger to drive to a seemingly unchanged Sandgate State School.

And then it’s on to Sandgate Town Hall to meet her sister, Jan, where Kerri-Anne complains of the injustice of being made to wear hand-me-down fancy dress costumes while their mother created a prize-winning masterpiece for Jan.

The town hall was also the first place Kerri-Anne ever performed in public, recreating routines by her favourite comedians, and miming to ‘My Boomerang Won’t Come Back’ with her school friends.

They end the day at Channel 9 studios, where at the age 13, Kerri-Anne pestered her way to a television debut. She tells Julia about the highs and lows, from battling chauvinism to her long reign as daytime queen.

8pm Wednesday on ABC.