i loved this dude when i was a kid. poor don.
ENTERTAINER Don Lane is being looked after in a care facility.
But reports that he has dementia are incorrect, his manager Jayne Ambrose says.
She said the 74-year-old had recently been moved from his home to a care facility.
He had not been there long and was physically fine.
Asked about reports Lane had dementia she said: “Certainly that is inaccurate, that report.”
“Don is very physically fine and he is in care,” she said.
Ms Ambrose was responding to reports quoting Lane's long-time friend Chris Kearns as saying: “Don is suffering from dementia, he is not well.”
The American-born Lane is best known for his work on the hugely successful Don Lane Show, which ran on the Nine Network from the 1970s until 1983.
It was on the show that he formed a close friendship with fellow entertainer Bert Newton.
Lane won more than 15 Logies during his career and in 2003 he was inducted in the Australian Logies Hall of Fame.
He made a guest appearance on the ABC's Late Show in 1993 and hosted American NFL broadcasts for the ABC in the 1990s.
- AAP
i saw him at the basketball once. I think he was with his kids, fully decked out in Sydney Kings fan gear.
we're talking...'92...93 here.
you mean Morton Issacson daniel z.
best known for his punch on with Ernie Sigley at the logies.
he always struck me as some kind of smarmy prick. sorry.
call it women's intuition.
not ernie sigley. ernie sigley is ok with me.
Don Lane originally came to Australia as a short-term replacement for Dave Allen, and stayed until now.
why the fuck has he got a manager at 74 while living in a nursing home, are there gigs in there?
you could get the blacklist a gig there, crackwhore.
Don Lane and James Randi, for hilarity.
lockingplier is so caring. i bet he would tell all the old people to turn down their hearing aids before he lowered the mic stand to half way.
now there's a demographic i had'nt thought of september, cheers!
Richard Reid is the new Don Lane.
i always though Don had several screws loose. i hated those guys.
did'nt care for the lanky yank too much but got a laugh from berts wheel.
He does have dementia and he's not very well at all.
All hail Don and his glass coffee table !
Dead.
at 75.
RIP in Don. The big glass coffee table in the sky.
I feel your pain KevinArnold. The NFL has never been the same on TV since Don retired. Vale.
vale,Don Lane a t.v champ!
very sad that this has only got two hits! :(
imagine if it was bert newton,it would be a computer meltdown.
I heard they're gonna name a street after him
Poor Don. The best second banana's second banana there ever was.
Sad loss. Pity Channel 9 lost that footage of him interviewing Hunter S Thompson.
That 'someone' was Dave Allen. Poor research.
yeah i loved this guy.
always looked forward to him hosting the NFL finals. sorely missed.
charlesincharge said 19 minutes ago:
I heard they're gonna name a street after him
Yeah, Don Lane Lane
and the college basketball!
ah, dick vitale.