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| Richard Wilkins & Vanessa Amarosi |
Plenty of network heavies and stars from NINE TV clambered up the steep stairs to the second floor in the Kings Cross nightclub
Kit & Kaboodle last night to pay homage to
Richard Wilkins.
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| Ben Fordham & David Gyngell |
The TV celebrity interviewer was launching his first book :
Black Ties, Red Carpets, Green Rooms. It's a series of his interviews with some of the world's most famous stars plus heaps of back stage gossip with an insight into the sometimes strange world of celebrity ego.
However you won't find much in the book about his many love affairs including with the fashion designer
Collette Dinnigan or
Tottie Goldsmith although there are some tales about Tottie's famous aunt
Olivia Newton John. Since arriving on these shores from New Zealand some 25 years ago Wilkins has been working non-stop, first in his own band
Wilde and Reckless,
then as an MTV presenter and for the last 15 years as the Nine
network's top interviewer of celebrities including on-camera stints from
the red carpet at the Oscars.
Among those at the party-his Today Show co-hosts
Cameron Williams,
Georgie Gardner,
Lisa Wilkinson and
Karl Stefanovic (who launched the book), Nine network supremo
David Gyngell and
Sony boss
Denis Handlin.
Lots of Richard's interview subjects sent their best wishes- Prince, Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman but one, Vanessa Amarosi presented her fondness by attending the party and singing. The video is below:
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| a night of hugs and kisses..... |
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| Georgie Gardner & Lisa Wilkinson |
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| even The Wiggles turned up! |
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