Gossip Queen: Red Symons sorry for Hey, Hey boss Daryl Somers

RED Symons says he feels Hey, Hey It’s Saturday host and producer Daryl Somers was too successful for too long from too young.

RED Symons has spoken of his Hey, Hey It’s Saturday years, saying he feels sorry for the show’s host and producer Daryl Somers.

“I feel for him in a curious way — I’ve had a number of careers they’ve come, they’ve gone,” he says in an interview to air on Studio 10 on Monday.

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Red Symons and Daryl Somers at the Hey, Hey gong.

“He’s just done the one thing, he was too successful for too long from too young.”

Symons recounts how Somers was always the boss.

“Daryl’s dilemma was on one hand he was simply the presenter on a program with lots of other presenters — he was the host, the hub, the traffic controller,” he says.

“He was always the boss, but very particularly the boss the further on it got.

“There would be moments …. where in Hey, Hey we interrupted and if you got a laugh you could see this curious ambivalence in Daryl in that he’s been interrupted.

“It’s perfectly reasonable for him to be kinda slightly annoyed by that, and yet there seems to be a positive result for the show.

“But it was his show … we did his show.”

The interview was filmed two weeks ago, before Symons’ son Samuel died of cancer.

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