The veteran journalist has died after a long battle with throat cancer. Prior to his death, he sat down with The Weekly to talk about his long and colourful life. Veteran Australian journalist Mike ...

The television journalist was 76. The former host of A Current Affair endured a long battle with throat cancer which he was diagnosed with in late 2016. Willesee is probably most famous for his ...

Family and friends, including former television colleagues Tracey Grimshaw, Melissa Doyle, Peter Meakin and David Leckie, joined the hundreds of people arriving at St Mary’s Cathedral for the ...

VETERAN newsman Mike Willesee is making an unexpected return to television current affairs as the new recruit on Channel Seven's Sunday Night. The former A Current Affair host confirmed he approached ...

CHANNEL Seven says it is still “hopeful” of snaring the first interview with Schapelle Corby but Mike Willesee admits he hasn’t spoken to her about it. Seven days after her release from prison, Corby ...

In an interview with Australian Story, the legendary current affairs presenter reveals how he survived a plane crash in 1997. He and cameraman Greg Low were about to board a Cessna plane in Nairobi, ...

PAUL Hogan was a struggling rigger working on the Sydney Harbour Bridge when A Current Affair host Mike Willesee gave him a job. “I went to my club last night and some of the chaps told me I had a ...

Tracy Grimshaw has used Twitter to express her anger at comments made by Mike Willesee. The Australian television personality, who is best known for the interviews that she conducts on Nine Network ...

Michael Willesee, one of the nation’s best and most recognised journalists in the postwar era, learned his lessons well. The opening chapter­ of Memoirs is an absolute cracker. After explaining that ...