Anne Shirley Wills (born 3 October 1944) is an Australian television and radio personality based in
Adelaide
Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...
. Wills holds the record for the most number of
Logies won by a person in the history of the awards, winning 19 Most Popular State Personality Logies, and one as producer of ''Clapperboard''.
Biography
Wills was born in
Wangaratta, Victoria
Wangaratta ( ) is a city in the northeast of Victoria, Australia, from Melbourne along the Hume Highway. The city had an estimated urban population of 19,318 at June 2018. Wangaratta has recorded a population growth rate of almost 1% annually ...
in October 1944. When she was three years old, her family moved to
Ocean Island in the Pacific Ocean, now known as Banaba Island and part of
Kiribati
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''The Wor ...
, and lived there until the family moved to Adelaide in 1963.
Wills was spotted by
Channel 9 executives during the 1964 Telethon Quest, and was offered the job of weather girl on NWS9, beginning in July 1965.
As well as appearing on a number of national television programs such as ''In Melbourne Tonight'', ''
Beauty and the Beast
''Beauty and the Beast'' (french: La Belle et la Bête) is a fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in ''La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins'' (''The Young American and Marine ...
'', ''The Bert Newton Show'' and ''Good Morning Australia'', Wills has presented and appeared on many Adelaide based TV programs, including ''Adelaide Tonight'', ''The Penthouse Club'', ''AM Adelaide'', ''Movie Scene'', ''Christmas Telethon'', ''Pot Luck'' and ''Close Up with Willsy''. She was also the weather presenter for
SAS for a number of years and, as of November 2013, has a regular weekly afternoon segment on Adelaide
AM radio station
FiveAA
FIVEaa (pronounced ''Five Double A'') is Adelaide's only commercial talkback radio station.
The station has a range of programs including news, sports, current affairs, social issues, football calls, gardening, lifestyle, cars, travel and heal ...
, featuring celebrity gossip.
Wills is known for her love of over-the-top earrings. Wills also commonly appears in pub
quiz nights
Awards and recognition
References
External links
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1944 births
Living people
Australian television presenters
Australian women television presenters
People from Victoria (Australia)
Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia