KAK IS BACK 'NOBODY CAN TAKE ME DOWN'
Woman's Day Australia|November 14, 2022
Australia's queen of daytime TV has a new home, a new outlook on life - and a whole lot to say about her naysayers
Wade Sellers
KAK IS BACK 'NOBODY CAN TAKE ME DOWN'

Three years after the tragic passing of her husband John, Kerri-Anne Kennerley has started anew.

Having moved out of the Woollahra house she'd shared with her NSW Lotto founder husband in April, the 69-year-old television veteran has finally settled into her new home in Sydney's Double Bay.

"It was so nerve-racking," KAK tells Woman's Day of her big move, who, several months after losing her mother Grace in May, sold off all her belongings and moved out of the historic home she'd shared with John for 23 years.

"It's a big house - it took up an entire block, and I didn't need that," she says, adding that the home also served as an emotional reminder of what she had lost.

"I think you just need to know it's time, and it was certainly time. Time for something new."

While KAK calls her new apartment a downsize, the two-bedroom apartment is certainly no downgrade.

TOUCHING MEMENTOS

Nestled on a cliff on a private cul-de-sac overlooking the beach, her home is still full of classic KAK touches.

There's an eye-catching red-and-white-striped Gaetano Pesce chair that sits in the corner alongside an enormous marble table in her open-plan dining room. Meanwhile, personal mementos - such as a coat rack with one of John's hats and a gold Tiffany clock, which had been gifted to them by Ken Cowley at their Opera House wedding in 1984 - all serve as poignant time capsules.

John tragically passed in February 2019, just three years after suffering a fall from a golf club balcony.

"It takes a very long time to just go through the waves," she says of the grief that still overcomes her. "But I was lucky in the sense that I was still working at Channel Ten at that stage, I was looking after my mother, then the house selling, buying, moving in... I've actually been very busy, and that filled a lot of the holes."

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