Vale: Diana Fisher
TV personality and royal commentator Diana 'Bubbles' Fisher, best known for The Inventors and royal tours, has died
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Former TV personality and royal commentator Diana ‘Bubbles’ Fisher, best known for The Inventors and royal tours, has died aged 91.
She died after a two-year battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma on Thursday, after being admitted to St Vincent’s Private Hospital in Sydney three days prior.
Born in London, UK ‘Bubbles’ (named after her warm personality and love of champagne) moved to Australia in 1964 with her husband, Humphrey, who was a BBC producer posted to Sydney.
The couple were wed by his father, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who officiated the marriage between Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in 1947. Fisher went on to cover members of the British monarchy for media outlets around the world for decades.
She served as a panelist on The Inventors for 12 years, from 1970 to 1982. According to the NFSA, “Though the panel would change from year to year, the one person who remained a fixture was Diana Fisher. As (producer Beverley) Gledhill commented in an interview with Tim Bowden for his book 50 Years, people either loved or hated Diana, but they always remembered her as the slightly dippy dame who had no idea how to use tools and who complained about the colour of a gadget.”
She was also a regular on Beauty & the Beast amongst other daytime shows, made an acting appearance as a judge on Heartbreak High and was famously on the set of Midday when fisticuffs broke out between Normie Rowe and Ron Casey.
Source: nine.com.au
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Oh Bubbles, you will be part of my happy childhood memories of watching the tv with my family. Always enjoyed your input. 91 is a good age and you had a very full life.
I thought she was a class act and loved her quirkiness on BB. Her catch phrase “Is it safe and does it come in other colours” was a classic on the Inventors too, now that’s proper reality right there. 2023 hasn’t got off to a good start with so many deaths. I’m not sure I want to get out of bed myself in the morning and it’s only the first month of the year. But I live hope Normie keeps hanging in there. RIP Ms Fisher.
Agreed, I think her other catchphrase was ‘can it be used in the home?’ I was only a young kid when that show was on tho so maybe I got it wrong. That’s the thing with getting older, all the people we used to watch and listen to were older than us when we did, so sadly their time has come. It probably seems like a lot more celebrities are dying because they’re familiar to our generation, where as I remember when I was growing up my parents watching the news and saying to themselves ‘oh no such-and-such died’ but I’d never/barely heard of them, if that make sense!