Brady Halls is leaving A Current Affair and retiring after 35 years at Nine.
He started as a newsreader for Wide World of Sports, knowing very little about sport by his own confession, when he joined A Current Affair in 1989.
In all his years on A Current Affair Halls has outlasted some almighty names including Jana Wendt, Ray Martin, Mike Munro and Tracy Grimshaw.
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Halls told A Current Affair's current host Ally Langdon there was a point where he thought Grimshaw was "actually stalking" him because they both ended up on the Today Show, the Midday Show and then A Current Affair together.
"Either that or I was stalking her," Halls joked.
Halls said one of the things he's loved most about A Current Affair over the years is that "you cover everything".
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"You help people who are in desperate need and (when) governments and bureaucrats have not been able to help them, they come to us," Halls said.
"Most of the time, we can do something."
Halls said A Current Affair can also entertain people.
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"We can do colour, we can do hard-hitting stuff, we can right wrongs, where people have been ripped off," he said.
Going back to the late 1980s and early 1990s when Halls sported quite the tan and some thicker eyebrows, he covered some of Australia's most colourful stories including a story about a man eating crocodile called Maniac, a beauty pageant contestant in her 90s and he also sat down with a lady living out in the bush in a teepee.
But there are some stories in particular that have stood out for him over the years, which he is particularly proud of including some of his "rescue stories".
"I remember the first one, it was quite remarkable. It was three teenagers, three boys out in Western Sydney and their father had passed away when they were young, very young," Halls said.
"And then their mother got cancer, she passed away. There wasn't much else left in their family."
Halls was talking about the Lawrence brothers Jarrod, Blake and Dylan aged 11, 14 and 19 who became orphans overnight after losing both their parents.
"They've got a mortgage on the house, (they've) got bills coming in, (their) mum's bills for her cancer when she died in hospital," he recalled, while welling up with emotion.
Halls said they ended up raising $1.2 million after their story aired on A Current Affair, which made him feel "pretty good".
"We should all feel very good; the camera crews, we all did it and that's what A Current Affair can do," he said.
"We change lives."
Halls said to work at A Current Affair, "you've got to care" and it's evident he's one of those people who do care when he delivers holiday cheer and hampers to those in need at Christmas time.
While Halls came bearing gifts sometimes, other times he turned up at people's doors with his infamous finger wag, hitting up those who were not so keen to face tough questions, without needing to be aggressive.
Some of Halls' quirkier moments on TV include the time he dressed up in a bee suit, his interview with Rocky the kangaroo and the time he met a lady addicted to Minties.
Another story that is a favourite was about a 12-year-old boy who stole his mother's credit card and somehow managed to trick police and customs and take a solo trip on his own to Bali.
"And then, Hollywood heard about the story stored on the Google machine and Hollywood rang him up and gave him a contract and paid him for a movie," Halls revealed.
But out of all of his stories, the very best one for him was the day he proposed to his wife Debbie live on air.
Debbie also worked at Nine at the time as an editor.
"It's been a great run," Halls said.
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