RIP Cocksy Tears For Our Favourite Tradie

The TV builder’s hung up his tools for the last time

For years, John “Cocksy” Cocks was a regular on our TV sets, the affable fix-it man and voice of reason on drama-filled reality shows.

A humble, down-to-earth bloke who dished out expert reno advice, his world was rocked with a shock terminal kidney cancer diagnosis in 2016.

Following a long battle with the killer disease, which had spread to his lungs and spine, the nation’s favourite handyman died last week, aged just 52, surrounded by family at his home on the Coromandel Peninsula.