Comic Barry Humphries hospitalised in Sydney

Legendary Australian comic Barry Humphries has been hospitalised, in accordance with studies.

The 89-year-old has suffered problems from hip alternative surgical procedure in current months, together with his well being worsening previously week, Dawn leisure reporter Peter Ford mentioned.

He was in hospital in Sydney as of Wednesday, and whereas there have been severe issues about what got here subsequent, he was below nice care, Ford mentioned.

“Issues are robust, and all we are able to do at this time limit is to principally give a giant shout out to Barry Humphries and say, ‘Australia loves you and we’ll at all times be thankful for every little thing you will have given us’,” Ford mentioned.

“Barry has a preventing spirit and he isn’t going to surrender simply.”

Humphries, born and raised in Melbourne, has delighted and outraged audiences for many years as an entertainer and man of one million masks – his most well-known, Dame Edna.

The comic was final 12 months touring the UK together with his present “The Man Behind the Masks”.

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