Industry farewells Brian Walsh

A-List stars, television executives and media bosses, poltiicians, journalists and colleagues joined with family to farewell television titan Brian Walsh yesterday.

Sisters Maureen Walsh, Jeanette Walsh and Bernadette Walsh hosted a funeral at St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney at 10.30am which was also broadcast on YouTube.

Industry also gathered at 1pm at 1pm at Stage 2, Disney Studios (formerly FOX Studios) to celebrate his remarkable life across Foxtel, Network 10, NRL, artist manegement, drama production and more.

Brian loved publicity, and there were some of the biggest names there to acknowledge his successes:

Lachlan & Sarah Murdoch (Walsh was godfather to their daughter Aerin), Guy Pearce, Patrick Delany, Maggie Tabberer, Simon Burke, Susie Porter, Rove McManus, Mark Fennessy, Kim Williams, Jamie Campbell, Deborah Hutton, Richard Wilkins, Collette Dinnigan, Margaret Pomeranz, John Hartigan, Col Allan, Ben Fordham, Alan Jones, Mick Carroll, David Gallop, Antonia and Janelle Kidman, Angela Bishop, Peter Overton and Jessica Rowe, Graham Richardson, Joh Bailey, Eddie McGuire, Jon Stevens, Jamie Durie, Steve Liebmann, Paul Murray, Tony Shepherd, Bruce McWilliam, Cameron Daddo, Lincoln Younes, Marta Dusseldorp, James Manning, David Brown, Graeme Burrell, Jordan and Zac Stenmark, Vic Buchan, Susan Elelman, Prue MacSween, Terry Kennedy, Melissa Hoyer, Dennis Handlin, Robert Thomson and Wendy Day.

There were tributes from Hugh Jackman & Deborra-Lee Furness, Nicole Kidman, Jason Donovan, and close friend, producer Graham ‘Shadow’ McNeice.

Performers included David Campbell singing Bring Him Home, I Tina star Ruva Ngwenya performing a slow version of Simply the Best (Walsh had famously secured Tina Turner for a legendary NRL campaign).

Source: Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Mail