A Current Affair farewells Brady Halls

A Current Affair last night farewelled veteran reporter Brady Halls, after 35 years with Nine.

Halls, 63, has covered a range of stories from bushfire victims, dodgy tradespeople, NDIS, aged care, immigration, insurance, childcare, local council, scams, neighbourhoods and celebrities.

He’s worked with hosts Tracy Grimshaw, Ray Martin, Mike Munro, Allison Langdon -a journalism survivor.

He joined Nine in the late 1980s as a young sports journalist and covered the Albertville French Winter Olympic Games on the Wide World of Sports in 1992.

He got his first taste of reporting for A Current Affair when Jana Wendt was host, before trying his hand as a reporter on the controversial and short-lived series Sex.

On A Current Affair his “Brady Bunch” segments aired every Friday night, interviewing some of the nation’s most bizarre characters, including a man who believed he had been abducted by UFOs and a woman who lived off the grid in a teepee.

“Brady’s sort of the Robin Williams of current affair reporters,” Tracy Grimshaw said, describing him as “both wildly genius” and “deeply sensitive”, while always being “funny and quirky as hell”.

But she said he also brings “all of his experience and wisdom to an investigation that had offended his deep sense of social justice”.

“He really cares about the people he meets through his work and will often keep in contact with them long after their story has gone to air,” sound recordist Warrick McPherson revealed.

“He really does care for people who have been wronged and he and I like nothing better than to make things right again,” cameraman Drew Benjamin added.

Brady’s former long-time colleague, Nine’s Digital Director, Kerri Elstub, said, “His ability to relate to them and react to their accidental humour filled me with joy to watch.”

Ray Martin added: “Brades, you leave a big hole in the TV charm department.”

Source: 9Now