Caroline Laws, the wife of radio legend John, has died at the age of 82 after battling cancer. The 40-year marriage between Laws and his wife Caroline was a “beautiful love story,” mourners said at the funeral at St. Mark`s Anglican Church in Sydney`s Darling Point on Tuesday. ESPECIALLY IN | The wife of radio station John Laws has died. Interior designer Cornelius Horgan, a longtime family friend, remembers Mrs. Laws as a great beauty, with a mischievous sense of humor, a love of interior design, gardens and entertainment. Laws` radio show has been broadcast across Australia for many years and has always been one of the most popular and influential shows in the Australian media. Laws is also a trusted voice for generations of Australians through his extensive and diverse work as a voice actor for commercials and as a prominent advocate for commercial products, particularly Valvoline motor oil, with his popular slogan “Valvoline, you know what I mean” and oral toothbrushes B (the slogan “Oral-B, the toothbrush that more dentists are using”). In December 2007, during a long lunch at Sydney`s Otto Ristorante to bid farewell to his former personal assistant, Laws was informed of rival broadcasters Derryn Hinch and Bob Rogers at another nearby table.[3] He went to her table and immediately uttered a tirade of insults, calling her “the two most despicable” he had ever encountered in the industry. Hinch and Rogers exchanged insults with Laws, insisting that Hinch was a “hypocrite” and a “failed alcoholic.” Hinch replied that this must mean that Laws had “succeeded” and that if Laws was indeed not an alcoholic, he was a “damn good actor”. Eventually, 2EU colleague Mike Carlton convinced Laws to return to his table, and Hinch and Rogers had to laugh at the altercation. [29] When veteran John Laws came to his wife Caroline`s funeral, his old friend Russell Crowe arrested him. Although Laws and his future wife met as children, they married others before being reunited in the 1970s.
During the service, Crowe recalled Mrs. Laws` kindness and generosity. Ray Hadley paid tribute to the late wife of the legendary John Laws. Over the years, Crowe and the Laws, who were neighbours at Woolloomooloo`s Finger Wharf, have grown into a “family,” he said. Madam. Laws hosted his first son`s birthday party, Charles, in 2003. He remembers “an exuberant and very amused Kerry Packer, the former media mogul who attended the party. The radio star described his wife as his greatest confidante, saying he “loved her the moment he saw her.” When Crowe told him that he would name his second son Tennyson, Mrs. Laws asked him why, since Tennyson was known to attack the Light Brigade. Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating called it the “chain of the century” at Laws` 40th anniversary dinner. It won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2008 ARIA Music Awards.[40] [41] [42] He wrote on his 2GB show: “She was an extremely elegant and charming woman, and it would be impossible to even understand what John was going through. In 2004, Laws and rival Alan Jones were accused of accepting payments for positive reviews of products and services under the guise of simply expressing personal opinions after doing business with Telstra.
The ABA later determined that Laws` deal was money for comments, but Jones did not. Laws, visibly irritated by what he saw as unfair treatment, launched sharp attacks on Jones and ABA leader David Flint. In an appearance on ABC Enough Rope, Laws accused Jones of pressuring Prime Minister John Howard to keep Flint at the helm of the ABA, making comments that many viewers suggested were a sexual relationship between Jones and Flint,[23] and generally implying that Jones, like Flint, was gay. “I join everyone else in expressing our sincere condolences on the loss of his beautiful wife. Although Laws is best known as a radio host, he has often worked as a television host and panelist. Her early 1960s Startime show helped introduce Edna Everage to the Australian mainstream, when Laws claimed that Everage was “a very close friend of mine”. [9] Laws told columnist Valda Marshall in 1970 that he was “not fundamentally a television star” and “not entirely satisfied with the medium.” He was a judge on Australia`s New Faces[11] in 1969 and hosted Noel Ferrier[12] on the consulting show Beauty and the Beast in 1970.[10] [13] The Acts were repealed in 1971; A spokesman for the channel that produced the show, Channel 7, said Laws had asked for a higher salary. In 1970, he also appeared on television as an actor in the children`s drama Skippy.[14] In May 1971, he began hosting a daytime show called His and Hers.[15] In 1982, he hosted a revived book Beauty and the Beast for Network 10.[16] In 1998, John Laws – In One Lifetime premiered on Network Ten and LAWS on Foxtel.
While LAWS continued to operate until 2000, John Laws – In One Lifetime was cancelled after two episodes – although the remaining five episodes commissioned by Network 10 aired later that year.[17] [18] [19] He sets the agenda by complaining vigorously about something, sets the line for the day, and then takes calls, which usually reflect his own point of view.
