Susie Elelman ‘THE BERT ONLY I KNEW’

The first thing Susie Elelman noticed, sitting beside TV icon Bert Newton for the first time, was the sheer size and scope of that famous ‘Moonface’. It didn’t take too long, however, for her to realise there was good reason for Bert’s head being built to an epic scale.

“Physically, it was absolutely enormous,” Susie laughingly recalls of their initial on-air meeting on Melbourne Cup Day in 1989. “We all know Bert was called Moonface forever – but even so, in person, his head came as a surprise!

Now I know it had to be that huge