BELOVED Australian TV host Fiona MacDonald has announced her own death three years after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease. The 67-year-old was famous for her iconic role as host of Australia 's It's a Knockout and the kid's show Wombat. A statement via her own social media account read: "Farewell my friends.
"My sister Kylie is posting this because I have left the building. Hopefully I'm looking down from a cloud. "Last night brought an end to a very tough few months.
Was very peaceful, the boys and Kylie stayed with me to say goodbye." The mother-of-two boys shot to fame in Australia when she became the face behind the puppet show Wombat which followed on from Argo's Cartoon Connection in the 1980s. read more in TV icons The Queensland-born celebrity was then known as the host of It's a Knockout which gained her legendary status across the millions of families in Australia.
Across her two-decade long career she also appeared on Look Who's Talking and In Brisbane Tonight. Fiona later became an expert in wines as she took time out of her TV roles to start up her own consulting business in the early 2000s. She worked as a business development manager and PR and communications manager for wine marketers Fine Wine Partners.
Most read in Celebrity Before moving on to set up her own PR consultancy firm Wine Chronicles in 2015. After a successful career on the screen and in the wine industry the star was forced to stop after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease in No.
