How sad is Daryl Somers
Jo Beth Taylor and Denise Drysdale wiped from Hey, Hey history
FORMER Hey Hey It’s Saturday co-hosts Jo Beth Taylor and Denise Drysdale have been wiped from existence from the show’s official website.
Taylor was creator Daryl Somers’ female co-host on the TV variety show, originally from 1995 to 1997, but also in 1999, 2009 and 2010.
Her relationship with Somers became strained after she labelled her former boss as “egocentric”when she appeared on
I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! earlier this year.
“Daryl is very supportive if he likes you. The flip side is he is very egocentric,” she told Paul Harrigan during a conversation on
I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! in early March.
“He treated me really well ... it was him first always. I could never be better and if I was, I always got short-shifted out.”
Somers told AAP in late March that he had cleared the air with Taylor and remained open to working with her again should the variety show be revived.
“I said `I know how these things happen and don’t even think about it. I hope we can work together again in the future and I’d love to work with her again and I enjoyed her time on Hey Hey, so that’s all fine,” he told AAP.
However Taylor is not listed on the “cast” page of
Hey Hey It’s Saturday’s official website
www.heyhey.tv.
Also missing is Drysdale, who was co-host from 1989-90 and appeared again in 2009.
There were rumours that Drysdale departed
Hey Hey It’s Saturday on bad terms.
Neither Drysdale or Taylor appear in any of the photos on the website.
However, former co-hosts Jacki MacDonald and Livinia Nixon are mentioned, second and third respectively, behind Somers on the cast page.
Also named on the website are series regulars, Red Symonds, Wilbur Wilde, announcer John Blackman, Molly Meldrum, Russell Gilbert, Ossie Ostrich and the cheeky Plucka Duck.
Somers is keeping Hey Hey It’s Saturday alive by posting digitalised episodes and segments of the series on the website. He is also in talks with Nine about reviving
Hey Hey It’s Saturday for two TV specials to air later this year.
Hey Hey It’s Saturday ran from 1971 to 1999 and returned in 2009 (reunion special) and 2010.
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