Wills as a teenager. Photo undated:
Our Willsy: SA’s biggest star of the small screen
She’s the Queen of SA television with a record-setting 19 Logie Awards and a consummate entertainer. Ahead of a new Cabaret show with Bob Downe, we look back at Anne Wills’ extraordinary career in pictures.
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Wills as a teenager enjoying a trip to the beach. Photo undated.
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1960: Anne Wills and local news legend Kevin Crease.
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Early 1960s: Wills with an NWS Channel 9 camera. Photo by unidentified staff photographer/News Corp.
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1960s: Humphrey B. Bear, Ian Fairweather, Sue Wills, her sister Anne Wills, and Fred Bear from ABC show Adventure Island, in scene from the TV program "Channel Niners".
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1964: Wills in 1964.
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1966: Wills presenting the weather forecast in a bikini in January 1966.
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1960s: Wills in a two-piece outfit and cropped bolero top. Photo undated.
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1969: Wills and sister Susan performing with SA country star Johnny Mac performing at 1st Australian Task Force Base at Nui Dat, Vietnam Sep 1969.
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Wills in the TV studio with Ernie Sigley (left) and an unidentified colleague. Photo undated
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1969: Wills (left) with her sister Susan before leaving for Vietnam to perform for the troops.
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Susan and Anne Wills. Photo undated.
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1969: Johnny Mac and Roy Wooding with Sue and Anne Wills.
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1969: Anne and Sue Wills perform in Vietnam with Johnny Mac and Lorrae Desmond.
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1969: SA entertainers Anne and Susan Wills wearing one of the costumes for their stage show for the troops in Vietnam.
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Anne Wills in an undated photo.
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Undated: Anne and Susan Wills performed a series of Christmas songs on Channel 9 for the the Christmas season. The series also featured Gerry Gibson, Patsy Biscoe, and Joan McInnes. Date unknown.
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1969: Wills in red-pleated flares with a gold brocade vest and blouse. September 1969. Photo: News Corp.
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Wills (left) with Lady Joan Hardy (then Joan McInnes). Date unknown.
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1971: Wills in November 1971.
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1973: Wills at home after winning TV Week Logie Award, February 1973. Photo: News Corp.
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1973: Wills showing her TV Week Logie Award trophy to her Old English sheepdog, Cooper. February, 1973. Photo: News Corp.
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1976: Wills before making a return to Channel 7 as weather girl for a month. March, 1976. Photo: News Corp.
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Wills performing with Erney Sigley. Date unknown.
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1971: Wills with Ernie Sigley centre at the 1971 Logie Awards.
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1976: Wills caused a flurry at the Adelaide Airport on September 19, 1976 when she married Michael Fenwick at an informal ceremony in the TAA VIP room at 9am. Photo: News Corp.
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1977: Wills interviews British singer Cliff Richard in the TAA lounge at Adelaide Airport, May 19, 1977. Photo: News Corp.
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1979. Wills happy to be back on Channel 9, after her self imposed retirement from TV at the end of 1977.
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1979: Wills on hannel 9's "Pete Smith Show" with singer-model Joan McInnes who was moving permanently to Sydney.
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1980: Wills interviews British actor Jenny Agutter, 27, who was in in Adelaide to shoot film "The Survivor", April 1980.
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1983: Anne Wills, grateful, but also a little embarrassed, about winning her 11th Logie Award as SA's most popular female TV personality. April, 1983.
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1984: Wills with a tour group about to board a chartered TAA aeroplane from Adelaide Airport bound for P&O Variety Club cruise of the South Pacific, July, 1984.
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1987: Wills wearing her new engagement ring.
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1988: Wills on the day of her wedding to sales executive Peter Robinson in March 1988.
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1989: SA television personality Anne Wills, circa 1989.
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1989: Wills with 16 of her Logie Award trophies, March, 1989.
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1989: Wills presents Disney character Minnie Mouse with a big, gaudy, bright pair of galah earrings during Myer-Disneyland Down Under visit to Adelaide, April, 1989.
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1989: Wills with cards for "The News" Star Bucks Cash Game competition, August, 1989.
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1989: ABC TV newsreader Jane Doyle looking at the earrings Jane bought for Wills in Peru, February, 1989.
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1989: Wills with the SAS7 Channel 7 news team Jeremy Cordeaux, Mike Smithson, Max Stevens and Graeme Goodings.
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1989: Wills with new TV Easy Guide from "The News", June, 1989.
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1989: Wills at the Adelaide Zoo making friends with Indah, a Borneo orangutan, August, 1989.
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1989: Wills in her Adelaide city townhouse. She says “the bathroom is, for me, the focus of my house”, August, 1989.
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1990: Wills in a photo from the Sunday Mail, December, 1990.
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1990: Wills with a small Panasonic television set and the TV Easy Guide from "The News", June, 1990.
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1990: Wills in an interview with "The News" to mark her 25th anniversary in the television industry, July, 1990.
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1990: Wills in the depths of the historic King William St branch of the State Bank depositing her jewellery in the bank's new safe deposit boxes. Pictured deciding which earrings to keep, July, 1990.
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1990: Wills after driving in the 1990 Grand Prix Celebrity Challenge race sponsored by BMW, November 1990.
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1990: Wills with new earrings and diamante stilleto shoes she picked up in Los Angeles, June 1990.
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1992: Multi TV Week Logie award winner, Anne Wills, April 1992.
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1992: Wills at Channel 7’s old studios in Gilberton for an interview The Advertiser’s Saturday magazine in April 1992.
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1992: Wills with her new dog, a St Bernard pup named Berkin, April 1992.
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1993: Wills at home in her Adelaide city townhouse with her extensive video collection.
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1993: Comedian Barry Humphries as Sir Les Patterson with Wills, November 1993. Photo: Narelle Autio/ News Corp.
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1994: Wills reflecting on the August 1980 edition of the "Sunday Mail" reporting on the death of her second husband Michael Fenwick in a plane crash.
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1994: Wills with husband Peter Robinson at Anne's 50th birthday party, September, 1994.
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1994: Wills lands an on-stage role in the hit musical Hello Dolly. The theatrical bombshell was dropped on Willsy at a celebrity "roast'' at Seven's studios in honor of her 50th birthday, October, 1994.
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1995: Wills with actor Russell Crowe, who was in in Adelaide to promote his new film "Virtuosity", November, 1995.
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1995: Wills who has won a record 19 Logies hugs a giant Logie award, April, 1995.
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1996: Wills in 1996.
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1996: SA TV presenter Anne Wills.
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1996: Wills with Beauty and the Beast host Stan Zemanek.
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1996: SA TV presenter Anne Wills.
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1996: Willsy at home.
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1996 Anne Will Rose Hancock-Porteous, Freda Leslie and Lisa Wilkinson and Stan Zemanek on the popular ‘90s Foxtel show Beauty and the Beast.
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1997: Wills with her Channel 7 colleagues Chris Dittmar, Graham Goodings,, Narelle Hill, Jane Doyle and John Riddell.
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1997: Wills wearing bikini printed T-shirt.
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1997: Wills with fellow TV veteran Ian Doyle at the Adelaide Botanic Garden.
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Wills with Channel Seven’s SA news team Graeme Goodings, Max Stevens and Jane Doyle. Photo undated.
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1997: Wills with former SA Premier John Olsen at the opening of Westfield Marion’s Greater Union Megaplex.
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1997: Wills reading a mock up of new tabloid size edition of The Advertiser.
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1997: Wills holding Logie award with artist Peter Burge holding model of Logie statuette her made at an art workshop for the intellectually disabled.
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1997: Wills wearin a sapphire and diamond necklet that was a competition prize in The Advertiser.
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1997: Wills wearing a bikini t-shirt while presenting her last weather report on Channel 7.
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1997: Wills with former cricketer and TV host Mike Whitney at The Advertiser Sports Star of the Year awards.
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1997: Wills with WA socialite Rose Hancock-Porteous.
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1997: Wills with TV presenter Narelle Hill with former footballer turned TV presenter Bruce Abernethy at the Advertiser Sunday Mail Foundation’s Aelaide's Most Wanted Guests Luncheon.
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1998: Wills and Hollywood star Kevin Costner.
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1998: Wills displays a replica of her favourite exhibit from Life And Death Under the Pharoahs exhibition in Adelaide.
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1998: Wills enjoying some VHS movies at home in the city.
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1998: Wills with actor George Hill in scene from theatre stage play "Up Yer Toga".
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1998:Anne Wills Channel 9 news veteran Kevin Crease.
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1998: Wills with former Advertiser journalist Stan James.
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1998: Wills after learning of Channel 9 local staff and program axings.
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1999: Wills with sequin magnolias she was adding to her dress to wear to the Academy Awards, an event she attended annually for many years.
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1999: Anne Wills shows off her bling.
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2000: Wills resting at home after breaking her foot, March, 2000.
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2000: Wills at home with her pet cat.
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2000: Wills at Channel 9’s North Adelaide studios in July 2000.
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2001: Wills at Blonde Day at Hoyts Cinema, Norwood, September, 2001.
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2001: Wills with Alan Hewitt in a 1963 Galaxy car once owned by singer Johnny O'Keefe at the opening night of stage musical ‘Shout’ at Adelaide Festival Theatre, June 2001.
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2001: Wills sewing a costume in February 2001.
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2003: Wills in 2003.
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2003 Wills with Scott Russell Hill and Tamara Devita at theatre production of "The California Suite" at Holden Street Theatre, January, 2003.
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2003: TV presenter Anne Wills.
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2003: Wills with the late Richard Marsland on the set of AM Adelaide in August, 2003.
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2003: Anne Wills in 2003.
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2003: Wills with John Cronin at the Ramada Pier Hotel in Glenelg for the Twentieth Century Fox trade day.
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2003: Wills at home.
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2004: Wills with Xavier Minniecon at premiere of Shrek 2 at the Capri Theatre, June 2004.
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2004: Wills is consoled by with fellow radio announcer Jeff Sunderland after the pair was sacked from 5DN.
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2004: Radio broadcasters Jeff Sunderland and Jeremy Cordeaux putting Anne Wills into the 5DN time capsule, which was opened that day after 20 years.
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2005: Pride of Australia Medal nominee Phyllis Skinner with Anne Wills, who put her up for the award.
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2007: Wills, centre sisters with sisters Susan McDonald, left, and Margaret Bleechmore, right.
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2012: Wills with friend and partner in crime Bob Downe (A.K.A Mark Trevorrow) at the Arts Theatre in Angus Street. Wills performed in Trevorrow’s '20 Golden Greats'.
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2012: TV personality Anne Wills at home.
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2012: Oversized earrings might be her trademark but Anne Wills' customised, blinged up Legacy pair were closest to her heart when this photo was taken. She acted as an honorary ambassador to support Legacy Week in 2012.
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2017: SA TV Mavens Paula Nagel and Anne Wills with Paula's dog, Luca, at Paula's house for an article in SA Weekend magazine. Photo Naomi Jellicoe
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2017: Wills with David Seymour Smith who performed on Adelaide Tonight with the singing group The Viscounts. Photo Matt Turner / News Corp.
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2006: Anne Wills at home with her cat.
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2006: Wills with former ALF star Matthew Primus and the former member for Norwood Vini Ciccarello at the ACSA Exhibition at Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre.
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2007: Willsy at the Wallis Academy Cinema City in Hindmarsh Square ahead of its final movie screening before closing down.
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2007: Willsy hosted the final film screening at the cinemas before they shut down for good.
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2009: Willsy with comedians Mark Trevorrow and Julia Morris at the Cabaret Festival Variety Gala at the Festival Theatre.
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2012: Willsy and Bob Downe with Adelaide Fringe director Greg Clarke, centre, and Fringe performers Uta and George (Georgina Symes and Nic Dorward) from Uta Uber Kool Ja.
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2012: Willsy with guest speaker Sam Kekovich at the The Advertiser Sunday Mail Foundation ASMF Famous Male Faces lunch at the Hilton Hotel.
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2014: Willsy and actor Simon Burke.
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2014: In 2014, Willys turned 70 and announced a show for that year’s Feast Festival. She's also took on a new job hosting quiz nights at pubs around Adelaide.
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2014: Willsy and Bob Downe, who was in town with his new show Bob, Sweat and Tears, which featured a special appearance by Willys herself. Pictured her with some of Willsy’s many Logies, which Bob has apparently not-so-secretly coveted. Picture Dean Martin
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2015: Willsy with friend and collaborator Matt Gilbertson at the Dirty Dancing Advertiser Foundation lunch at Festival Theatre. Photo: Mike Burton/ The Advertiser.
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2018: Willsy at home in 2018. Photo: Tricia Watkinson
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2021: Willsy and Bob were at it again in 2021 for his Cabaret Festival Show Adelaide Tonight with Anne Wills, which played at the Dunstan Playhouse. Photo: Sarah Reed
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2021: Willsy and Bob on a promotional shoot for their Cabaret Festival show Adelaide Tonight.
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2021: Willsy ahead of her Adelaide Cabaret Festival show in 2021. Picture by Matt Turner.
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2021: Willsy with Adelaide Cabaret Festival artistic director Alan Cumming at her home.