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<\/p>\n‘Baby John’ Burgess has sent fans into a frenzy after being spotted at a Perth shopping centre car park, with many saying he “still looks the same” more than two decades after stepping away from prime-time television.<\/p>\n
The 82-year-old Australian television and radio host, best known for his role on the hit show Wheel of Fortune, was recognised by fan Trish Gregson at a Perth shopping centre on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
After snapping a photo with the star, also affectionately known as ‘Burgo’, Gregson took to social media to share the chance encounter.<\/p>\n
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“Randomly walked past this Aussie legend and shouted Burgo! Such a nice man and so is his wife, such memories watching him growing up,” Gregson posted to Facebook, quickly clocking more than 1,500 likes at the time of writing.<\/p>\n
The comment section soon filled with nostalgic reactions and disbelief at how little the veteran host appears to have changed.<\/p>\n
“Wow, he doesn’t look any different to how he looked many decades ago,” one fan wrote, while another added: “Remarkable for a man of 82.”<\/p>\n
“Good to see he’s still looking great ‘Baby Faced Burgess’!” a third commenter shared, while another said: “Looks exactly the same now to when he was spinning that wheel in the 90’s.”<\/p>\n
Many fans also lamented the absence of Burgess on television, recalling his years as a staple of Aussie screens- from Channel Seven’s Wheel of Fortune, which he co-hosted alongside Adriana Xenides from 1989 to 1996, to his own Channel Nine game show, Burgo’s Catch Phrase, which ran from 1997 to late 2003.<\/p>\n
“Loved watching Wheel Of Fortune with Burgo and Adriana Xenides. They worked so well together. Lovely photo,” one fan commented, while another wrote: “Wish he was still on TV was the best always loved John.”<\/p>\n
While Burgess has long since stepped away from the cameras, he quietly returned to his broadcasting roots last year, heading back into radio in October.<\/p>\n
The veteran presenter first began his career in radio back in 1965 after being discovered by the late great John Laws, before joining network station 2GB.<\/p>\n
He later continued his work on the airwaves alongside his hugely successful television career.<\/p>\n
However, in 2022, Burgess faced a serious health scare after suffering a bout of sepsis that left the then 78-year-old in the intensive care unit at Royal Perth Hospital for five days.<\/p>\n
In an interview with A Current Affair in October 2024, the media icon reflected on his six-decade-long career and his decision to return to the microphone at 6PR Perth.<\/p>\n
“At this stage of my life, to be starting something sort of new in this business, I guess, is probably a bit unique, because I’m not the youngest person around,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s always good to keep your mind and brain active, so that’s what I’ve always tried to do.”<\/p>\n
Burgess now hosts ‘Saturday Morning with Burgo’ on Perth’s Forever Classic 6iX, airing every Saturday from 8am to midday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Baby John’ Burgess has sent fans into a frenzy after being spotted at a Perth shopping centre car…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,188540,188543,188541,447,134,188542,45210],"class_list":["post-339111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baby-john-burgess","tag-burgo","tag-burgos-catch-phrase","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-john-burgess","tag-wheel-of-fortune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}