Barry Humphries called accident that led to his death ‘the most ridiculous thing’ weeks before his passing
Barry Humphries called the accident that led to his death “the most ridiculous thing” weeks before his passing. The Dame Edna Everage comic, who died aged 89 on Saturday (22.04.23) at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital surrounded by his loved ones, following complications from hip surgery, described how he took a tumble at home that led to him needing the operation, and said it had left him in “agony”. He told The Sydney Morning Herald’s Private Sydney celebrity column: “It was the most ridiculous thing, like all domestic incidents are. “I was reaching for a book, my foot got caught on a rug or so...