‘15cm plate with 10 screws’: Kerri-Anne Kennerley reveals life after fall

Much-loved TV personality Kerri-Anne Kennerley has detailed her recovery following a sudden fall. Now she’s counting down the days to pursue an unexpected passion.

An on the mend Kerri-Anne Kennerley is counting down the days until she can get back to her greatest passion.

The much loved television personality underwent surgery in January two weeks after falling several metres from a trapeze and breaking her collar bone in live stage musical, Pippin.

“I am still not playing golf,” she said.

“I can putt a little bit but that is very very very frustrating. I am hoping I will build up to it over the next several weeks.”

The 67-year-old, who has a golfing handicap of 17 and is a member at the Australian Golf Club, is hoping to get the all clear to return to playing golf in three weeks when she has an x-ray booked.

Kerri-Anne Kennerley pictured on the Red Carpet for the Australian Premiere of Hamilton at the Sydney Lyric Theatre on March 27. Picture: Damian Shaw

Orthopaedic surgeon Timothy Yeoh carried out the operation in January, who Kennerley said had “done a magnificent job”.

“There’s a 15cm plate with 10 screws or something in it,” Kennerley explained.

“It is just endless appointments of physio and being back at the gym. I still don’t have full mobility of my left arm but that will come. It has all gone along extremely well compared to the first six weeks where I couldn’t tie my hair back, I couldn’t dry my hair, I couldn’t do anything, it was very annoying. Onward and upward, it is all going to be good.”

Kerri-Anne Kennerley wears a sling after trapeze accident.

Kerri-Anne Kennerley shoulder x-ray.

Pippin opened at the beginning of December with Kennerley playing the role of Grandma Berthe in the Australian rendition of the show.

Kennerley’s main act in the production saw her swinging from a trapeze as she belted out showstopper No Time At All at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre.

Audible gasps from the audience were hard in extraordinary video footage of the accident taken by an audience member.

Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Ainsley Melham in Pippin. Lyric Theatre, Sydney, 2020. Gordon Frost Organisation. Picture: Brian Geach

At the time, Kennerley described the accident as “just a random misstep in the trapeze and circus world”.

She was required to wear a sling for several weeks as her shoulder recovered and has started going to the gym again.

“I am doing mostly leg work at the moment,” she said. “A little freshening up arms and chest, very light, but mostly I have been doing the legs.”