Radio Australia Today Editorial

Coming Face to Face with a Heart Throb

17 June 2008

William McInnes is a real Australian Idol.

He has starred in television (Seachange) on movies (Look Both Ways) and as an author.

He has just starred in a new movie (Unfinished Sky) about an Afghan refugee who finds herself on an outback Australian farm with an Aussie man with a horrendous secret (played by McInnes).

Like when we met Donny Osmond, Olivia Newton-John and Kiss’s Paul Stanley, when you have an icon in front of you, youfind they are just people, beautiful people, nice people, talented people, but just people nonetheless.

William McInnes is an ordinary bloke who acts for a living to a camera that loves him.

In the studio he bantered about football, disparaging my Aussie Rules team (the poor Richmond Tigers) and showing no mercy.

Still a lovely guy who made us laugh.

– Phil