A lot-loved TV persona Fiona MacDonald, greatest recognized for It’s a Knockout and Wombat, has died aged 67.
She handed away following a battle with motor neurone illness after being recognized in 2021.
Fiona, the elder sister of TV star Jacki MacDonald, started her media profession as a youngsters’s presenter on Wombat and later co-hosted iconic Nineteen Eighties recreation present It’s a Knockout. She additionally hosted children present Look Who’s Speaking and In Brisbane At this time alongside Steve Haddan.
She spent the final twenty years in advertising and public relations for the wine trade, and working her consultancy Wine Chronicles.
So very unhappy Fiona Mac Donald has died. What a fighter she was and so decided to lift consciousness & cash for MND. Her story informed so powerfully on Australian Story a 12 months in the past precisely. Condolences to her sons and household.
— Peter Ford (@newmrpford) October 3, 2024
Final 12 months she was profiled on ABC’s Australian Story setting off, towards all recommendation, on a “Thelma and Louise” type street journey round Australia along with her sister Kylie Thynne to lift consciousness and analysis funds for MND.
“I’ve needed to come to phrases with utilizing a strolling stick, a walker and a wheelchair,” she stated on the time.
“My speech is already failing. Accepting this stuff doesn’t come simply. It’s hideous relinquishing your personal energy, residing with the crushing data of additional weaknesses to come back.
“So now I perceive and have joined the ranks of the MND warriors. I’ve a leopard-print cane and a walker with pneumatic tyres that may cross fields. I plaster a smile on my face going out and hurl open my entrance door considering, ‘Rattling you, MND!’”
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