LARRY EMDUR ‘MUM SAYS WAS BORN YELLING!’

AUSTRALIA’S HAPPIEST TV STAR OPENS UP ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY

- Kylie Walters

Since he started reading the news on-screen at 19, the key to Larry Emdur’s phenomenal – and enduring – success has been his joyful disposition. In fact, it’s what earned him the title of cheeriest star on Australian TV.

It’s a quality that Larry, 57, credits to his beautiful mum Faye, who joined her son for an exclusive photo shoot with New Idea at his Sydney Harbour apartment.

“Mum always sees the positive side of everyone and every story. It’s made me who I am today,” The Morning Show host tells us.

Faye, however, thinks her dashing boy was just born that way.

“We’d picked out the name Michael, after my husband’s father who’d recently passed away,” Faye explains. “But as soon as I saw him, I knew it didn’t suit. Even as a newborn he was so happy – happy as Larry. It just stuck.

“When I told my dad what we chose, he said Larry was a name for a man who was going places and that’s sure turned out to be true.”

BORN A STAR

Larry concedes to being somewhat of a reluctant celebrity, confessing he only took his first overnight job at a newspaper so his days were free to pursue his dream of becoming a pro surfer. Yet Faye knows it was his destiny.

“Larry was born yelling and screaming. He’s stayed centre stage his whole life,” she says with a hearty laugh.

Alongside Larry’s dad Dave, who died in 2004, Faye has raised three highly successful kids: Larry and his sisters Nicki, a psychologist, and talented artist Martine.