GOODBYE POSSUMS

 

Dame Edna Everage is "hanging up her glasses and retiring", the Daily Mail reports.

Barry Humphries, 78, the man behind the madcap glasses and catchphrases such as "hello possums", says that although he may appear as Edna on TV in the future his next tour will be the last to feature Australia’s most famous housewife.

Dame Edna became Humphries' most famous creation in the early 80s when the larger than life housewife from Moonee Ponds in Melbourne, became an international star with her own talk show.

Australia's greatest entertainment export - iconic performer,
satirist, artist and comedian Barry Humphries
will take his final bow to Australian audiences
during his farewell tour, "Eat Pray Laugh!".

Humphries, whose alter egos include
inebriated cultural attaché, the Honorable Sir Les Patterson,
and Moonee Ponds' legendary housewife, Dame Edna Everage,
will perform a limited number of Australian farewell
shows from June to August this year.
While his famous creations are not officially retiring,
Australia's greatest Dame insists that this will be her final tour.

"So, Possums, please do come and say goodbye to me.
It would be lovely to see your faces for the last time," Dame Edna says.

Go to www.dameednafarewell.com for more details