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About Tony Barber
Born in England, Tony Barber says he owes much of his enthusiastic and driving personality to a loving Irish grandma and a whole street full of Aunties who kept the spirits high during the dark years of World War 2.
The family came to Australia in 1947 and Anthony (as the rellies call him)survived the Sisters of Mercy,the Christian Brothers and seven years training to be a Royal Australian Naval Officer finally getting his foot on the first rung of the ladder as a cadet announcer at 6GE Geraldton in 1961.
“The sisters of so-called mercy taught me to sing and dance,the brothers taught me to bob and weave.The navy taught me to play rugby,” says Tony.
Through the mid sixties Tony pursued his dreams in Sydney via Hotel Talent Quests, a regular gig as resident compere and vocalist at the legendary Spellsons nitery in Pitt St.
He also held a “day job” as an advertising executive and cast himself as the “Cambridge Whistler”,the central character in a television cigarette commercial and came under national scrutiny.
The commercial caught the public imagination,and more importantly the eye of Bruce Gyngell then directing the Network 7 “Revolution”. Gyngell proposed Tony as Host for the Grundy daytime show “Temptation” and his career really took off from there.
Prime time followed with “Great Temptation” , a Gold Logie, a series of Gold Albums and sell-out concerts all round the country.
Including the “Temptation” series “Family Feud” ,through to eleven
years with “Sale of the Century”,Tony estimates he’s hosted over 8,500
individual episodes of successful Grundy Games.
Tony's "Cash Trivia Challenge" on Foxtel's Ch.1 has run 7 nights a week 40 weeks of the year for the past 4 years, and is one of the most watched programmes on subscriber television.
His recently published autobiography(Random House) of the same name made the best seller lists nationally.
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