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Denise Drysdale: “We had so much fun!”

'Ding Dong' remembers working with the late, great Ernie Sigley.

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TV icon Denise Drysdale paid tribute to her legendary mate Ernie Sigley this morning on Studio 10, from her home on the Gold Coast.

“I heard the news a couple of days ago,” she said.

“I sort of lost Ernie when we couldn’t work together on stage. We were still doing floorshows up until 5 years ago. He’s be on stage and he was starting to get forgetful then. I knew then it was the start of it.

“So that was sadder for me to lose that, because we had so much fun on camera, it’s unbelievable and off-camera.”

She regaled stories of hijinks with Ernie, the recording of Hey Paula and how she was named ‘Ding Dong’ by Sigley.

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  4. Thanks for sharing this, David. I tuned in to their program but didn’t find a tribute until this. Denise is such a national treasure and she and Ernie were such a great team. I had no idea that it was Ernie that named her ‘Ding Dong’. I posted a clip of ‘Hey Paula’ on my youtube channel nearly a decade ago and revisited it, and was listening to their voices several times. He could hold a tune, even though he said he couldn’t. Lovely tribute. I was wondering about Denise as soon as I heard of his passing.

      1. As Meat Loaf famously sung ‘You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth’. You and I and others have been advocating for Denise and Caroline Jones especially to be inducted. The 60th Anniversary of 4 Corners made me think of it again, and this triggered the same thought 🙂

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