Australia.
Our home.
The Lucky Nation.
And what trying nation it is.
One worthy of exploration, excessive to bottom.
In case you might be Australian you have no doubt heard of Andrew Daddo, the much-loved TV presenter of The Good Open air, Kids Say The Darndest Points and loads of totally different reveals.
Correctly how lucky are we? We heard that Andrew Daddo’s new TV current, The Lucky Nationis premiering and grabbed the possibility to sit down down down and interview the particular person himself.
1. Inform us about your first freeway journey rising up?
I don’t recall the first as heaps morphed into one prolonged one… we would drive from Melbourne to Yamba in Northern NSW. We’d go away at midnight sooner than dawn and arrive two afternoons later. I nonetheless can’t eat egg and bacon pie! These journeys are the provision of such happiness and dinner desk fodder as soon as all of us get collectively.
2. What are the highlights from the first freeway journey you took your particular person kids on?
Can you identify these first freeway journey moments highlights? We stopped a lot for feeding, I have in mind. Sometimes, I’m not a stopper, nonetheless a get there type. It was pleasant, we talked a lot, had audio books and actually rarely in automotive movies on the laptop computer pc, nonetheless the additional we drove, the additional we realised that the easiest bits have been the talking. Singing, automotive video video games, crapping on, it’s what good freeway journeys are all about.
3. Did Spud (the family canine) or Spite (the hen) embody you? How do your of us react to having a family pet hen?
Spud, and her predecessor Flog have been on these prolonged drives from Sydney to Melbourne and once more. Not the hen, though. Her title was Sprite, on account of she was white. The black one was Coke, the orange one was Fanta – it’s the type of issue that happens when you let the children title the animals. Why Spud? She seems like a potato!
4. You could have one of many essential recognisable faces in Australia. What is the funniest issue a fan has ever requested you?
Individuals are usually superb and actually generous. The most common issue people say is, ‘Boy you’re taller than I’d thought,’ or, ‘you look shorter on TV.’
Andrew with Damien Leith – 1st Episode of The Lucky Nation
5. You’ve starred in quite a lot of journey reveals all through the years. What impressed your love for journey?
To be reliable, I type of fell into the journey model, and fell for it in a big strategy. It started with The Lonely Planet. How good was that?
6. What was your most embarrassing or worst journey second?
It was in India, I was sick for a few week and a half and misplaced about 8 kilos from every ends… horrible, nonetheless my girlfriend did assume I appeared increased after I purchased home.
7. What has been your most memorable journey second thus far?
It’s too onerous to determine on, although utilizing all through America and Australia on bikes will on a regular basis be strong to beat.
8. What’s the brand new TV assortment, The Lucky Nation? And the best way did it come about?
It’s a journey current that’s not meant to look like a journey current, I suppose. It’s a freeway journey, a possibility to find a trip spot, nonetheless the actual particular person you going there with as correctly. In a strategy it buys into that complete – what’s increased, the journey or the holiday spot? Solely with the Lucky Nation, you get every, and I consider that’s what’s so thrilling about it.
9. Can we star in your subsequent episode? 😉
Positive!
Abseiling at Mount York: ‘Couldn’t they’ve given us instructions sooner than we stepped off the ledge?’
The Lucky Nation premieres Saturday 4th July at 5:30pm (Sydney time) on Channel 7. Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth can watch at 5pm, Brisbane at 4:30pm.
It’s a four-part TV freeway journey discovering attention-grabbing people, fascinating places and distinctive events that make Australia the lucky nation that it is.
“It’s not normally we get the possibility to experience the easiest components of Australia with really memorable Australians; lucky for us, that’s one amongst them. All of the characters we’ve lined up for The Lucky Nation have good tales to share, whether or not or not they be occupation, family or life’s odder moments. By coupling these with iconic Australian settings, we’ve managed to go looking out one factor really explicit in The Lucky Nation.”
Andrew Daddo
In each episode Andrew and a star customer share a little bit of part of Australia. The first kicks off with Andrew and singer Damien Leith heading to the Blue Moutnains for Ugg boots, segways, abseiling, UFO’s and Big Foot tales.
Subsequent episodes operate hypnotist Peter Powers in The Whitsundays and attempting out The World’s Most Beautiful Scarecrows. Rob Carlton in Hunter Valley and Townsville native Adam Mannequin hugging wombats and competing in a pizza cook-off.
In case you haven’t explored Australia however, then it’s a good taster to get you hooked for further.
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