Radio legend John Laws has been hospitalised due to an infection and is due to undergo a procedure.
The 85-year-old, known as the “golden tonsils” of Australian radio, was hospitalised last week, but didn’t want to make the news public, asking fellow radio broadcaster Ben Fordham to keep it quiet.
The news was shared by Laws’ radio station 2SM on Wednesday morning, with Fordham saying he “will be okay”, and didn’t want “anyone to get too fussed about the whole thing”. “They asked at the time for this to be kept quiet because Lawsie didn’t want anyone to be making a fuss,” he said.
“Take your time with your recovery, rest up and get well soon,” he said to Laws. “Before you know it, you’ll be back on your feet hooning around Sydney and sitting down to a Wild Turkey or two.”
Radio news – John Laws has been admitted to hospital with an infection and will undergo a procedure. Get well soon, Lawsie and lots of love from everyone at 2GB. Before you know it, you’ll be back on your feet having a Wild Turkey.
— Ben Fordham (@BenFordham) March 16, 2021
The news comes after the death of 89-year-old Sydney radio titan John Brennan, who passed away in his retirement home on Friday, March 12.
Laws has had a couple of health scares in the past several years, including a hospitalisation in Rome in 2016 for what The Daily Telegraph described as a “mystery illness”, and a fall at a popular restaurant in Sydney in 2013.
Laws’ wife Caroline passed away early last year, aged 82, after a long battle with cancer.
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