Style icon, former TV presenter and Gold Logie winner Maggie Tabberer has died, aged 87.
Tabberer based her personal style label and PR corporations, was named Australia’s Mannequin of the 12 months in 1960 and wrote a style column, “Maggie Says”, for The Every day Mirror.
She remained with the paper for 16 years, till billionaire Kerry Packer requested her to grow to be style editor of Australian Girls’s Weekly journal in 1981. She quickly turned the general public face of the journal, ceaselessly showing on its cowl and in tv promoting. Tabberer stayed with the journal for 15 years till 1996.
Tabberer started showing on tv in 1964, as one of many “beauties” on Magnificence and the Beast, alongside Eric Baume till 1965 after which Stuart Wagstaff. Her appearances made her a family identify and she or he later started internet hosting her personal every day chat present on Seven, Maggie, for which she received two consecutive Gold Logies in 1970 and 1971.
She was the primary particular person to win again to again Gold Logies.
A later TV profession got here in 2005 with Foxtel’s Maggie … At Residence With, visiting the properties of celebrities and socialites together with John Olsen, Susan Renouf, Iva Davies, Ian Thorpe, Hawke and Blanch D’Alpuget, and Siimon Reynolds.
It ran for 8 seasons till 2009 with Foxtel’s Brian Walsh then sying, “Maggie Tabberer is an absolute phenomenon within the Australian tv business. The astounding line up of friends which have welcomed Maggie and her interview fashion collection into their hearts and houses over the previous eight years is a real testomony to her reputation and reverence and it has been such a delight for all of us at Foxtel to work along with her on delivering the collection to subscription tv viewers.”
In 2017 her eightieth birthday was held within the NSW Southern Highlands attended by household, mates, media and style friends.
Walsh then advised TV Tonight, ““It was a really big day and a superb occasion made up of a terrific solid, fabulous meals and wine, a South American occasion band, memorable and emotional speeches and plenty of dancing. Brooke took to the microphone with an unimaginable rendition of ‘Fever’ and Maggie joined me to start out a conga line which introduced each visitor to their ft to carry the occasion to a spectacular finale.”
In 1998 was made a Member of the Order of Australia for service to the neighborhood, notably by means of her help for charitable organisations and the development of the Australian style industr
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