“In Yiddish! AAP Ms Szubanksi was a prominent advocate during the campaign to … “It teaches you compassion. “And terribly sad, and afraid that this would be fleeting. He would tell it like it was, and that was the way he would have wanted it.” She has, of course, been candid about herself, too. In 1943, at the age of 19, he had been recruited by his brother-in-law to a Polish execution squad, Unit 993/W Revenge Company. Fans recited her lines back to her in the street. “She looked like a radical feminist lesbian,” says comedian Marg Downey, then a fellow student, who had last seen her when they played in school-holiday tennis tournaments together. Last year, Jenny Craig hired her as a spruiker again, but this time, despite the financial incentive to stick with the program, she left after only six months. Magda Szubanski is guest tonight on Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery, from Croydon Tennis Club to her role in the same sex marriage debate. An otherwise outgoing, expansive character, he didn’t reminisce about the war like most of his Polish friends. They were his first.”. It wasn’t the only misjudgment she made about Peter. She has also acted in films (Babe, Babe: Pig in the City, Happy Feet, The Golden Compass) and stage shows. The journalist persisted: “One of the rumours is that you are … homosexual.” Szubanski repeated pleasantly that gossip didn’t concern her, but that it was time she left. Szubanski remembers becoming aware at this point in the conversation of a hissing noise in her head. For Downey, the real eye-opener was Szubanski’s star turn in the law faculty revue – an event for which anyone on campus could audition. “I slid down the wall of my hallway gasping and weeping,” she writes, “and I banged my head against the wall. Next came the long-running hit TV show, Fast Forward. But then she put it all back on, with interest. By the time Szubanski started secondary school, she had a love-hate relationship with food as well as her father. On the other, she felt exposed, having lost her armour. Sister Barb, brother Chris and Magda shortly after arriving in Australia. View of Croydon and Mount Dandenong. Behind the scenes at the Good Weekend cover shoot, Sister Barb, brother Chris and Magda shortly, Magda as Esme Hoggett, with co-star James Cromwell, in. Desperate for his approval, Szubanski embarked on the first of many strict diets, but even at 11 she realised at some level that his demand was unreasonable. Downey says Szubanski is much more relaxed: “She’s far more comfortable with people.”, her father’s ruthlessness on the tennis court makes sense to Szubanski now. She wondered what had happened to the boy. A 1972 newspaper report about young Magda’s prowess on the tennis court, a sport her father trained her in relentlessly. In sketch shows such as Fast Forward, Big Girl’s Blouse and the current Open Slather on Foxtel’s The Comedy Channel, she has proved herself a master of disguise. “His only way to cope with it was to shut the door on it,” Szubanski tells me. “In Yiddish! She thinks, too, that she can identify the cold, hard thing she saw in him: it was calcified guilt and shame. Her father didn’t hide his disappointment in her. They said it didn’t change a thing – she was their daughter and they loved her. In a D-Generation sketch with Tom Gleisner, 1985. He never saw them again.). I totally regretted what I’d done. Yet, “initially, before I’d really processed what had happened, all I felt was vulnerable. When she asked what he did in the war, he would laugh and say, “I was an assassin.”. Next came the long-running hit TV show, Fast Forward. Fifteen years earlier, not long after she let him and Margaret know she was a lesbian, Szubanski had sat Peter down and made him talk to her about the war. Magda with her father, Peter, in Croydon in about 1972. The sports mad Kath and Kim character, played by Magda Szubanski, joined the undefeated premiers at the Union Hotel for their Christmas Party. She ate and ate, but still she was hungry. She parted company with Jenny Craig, which was reported to have paid her about $850,000, and found herself shadowed by paparazzi keen to snap her eating a doughnut or chocolate bar. She would slip out of bed in the middle of the night and pad into the kitchen to raid the biscuit tin. “It is the sound of my own blood roaring through my veins,” she writes. “And every so often your foot would crunch through something – the body of someone who hadn’t made it.”. Yet, “initially, before I’d really processed what had happened, all I felt was vulnerable. Nothing worked. Dating back to 1840 the … “I really resisted that cliché about the sad clown until I realised I was one.” When it was clear that all was lost, he and other surviving resistance members escaped through the city’s sewers. “A sign that I was still the same non-threatening Sharon.”, Three years later, she couldn’t be happier about her decision. Sister Barb, brother Chris and Magda shortly after arriving in Australia. Targets were kept under surveillance. In the interview she recorded with her father, Peter said he hadn’t hesitated to carry out the executions: “I had no compunction whatsoever. “Once I turned the tap, I couldn’t stop the gush of words.”. Szubanski asked when he got his first gun, and he started talking about two brothers he knew, the Schmidts. And seeing glimpses of that in my father.”. Curled up on the couch in the dark, she worked her way through the contents of the family-sized tins he brought home. They had settled in the English city of Liverpool but in 1965, when Magda was four, moved to Australia. “I felt a force-field going around her whenever she was in public,” Ayres says. The following year, Szubanski accepted an invitation to become an ambassador for the Jenny Craig weight-loss business. The unfazed response from her adored older sibling was a huge relief, but Szubanski couldn’t summon the courage to tell anyone else. “That bloody little Jewish kid used to sing!” he would say. People often ask Szubanski where she got the inspiration for hapless, hilarious Sharon. “He was the most beautiful man,” says Bonett-Horton. She got fat. Here was a man who had lost everything: the war, his country, his family. “It must seem somewhat paranoid, I suppose,” she says. She saw doctors, dieticians and acupuncturists. "FYI when I did the Uber eats ad w Kim I spoke to her on the phone (weeks before this current disaster ) & the VERY FIRST THING she asked me was how we were going with the bushfires," she wrote. Not only has Szubanski now lifted her guard, her new mood is one of forensic introspection. Old friends like Sue Ryan, a construction industry project manager, had become concerned about her health. When she asked why he had set it up, he replied that he couldn’t bear what was happening to the Jews. In late 80s/early 90s, appeared in comedy show on Australian TV called Fast Forward (1989). “I suspect the weight gain was a peace offering to the universe,” she writes. She is popularly known for her acting in Babe (1995) and Babe: Pig in the City (1998) as Esme Hoggett. Instead of losing weight, she gained it. The answer is in the book: “She was born in my broken soul.”, At Szubanski’s suggestion, I have come to see her at the outer-suburban home of her doughty 90-year-old mother, Margaret. Sister Barb, brother Chris and Magda shortly after arriving in Australia. The next time Peter saw the soldier, he himself was armed. But cathartic. The boys’ parents had decided it was too risky for him to stay, she said. She could have whitewashed his story, she says. Kath and Kim star Magda Szubanski has called out a nurse who allegedly tweeted about her while she was recovering from an operation in hospital. “He could be cruel in the things that he’d say,” she tells me. No qualms of conscience, nothing.” But at other times, he admitted to her that, in his youth, he’d had no real understanding of mortality or moral complexity. “He needed to win at something,” she says. Magda announces she is gay on Channel Ten's The Project inFebruary 2012. Then she joined a feminist club and started to make friends. “With the book, I had to confront a lot of things about myself,” she says. “That bloody little Jewish kid used to sing!” he would say. Her father didn’t hide his disappointment in her. At Melbourne University, where she had enrolled in an arts course, Szubanski spent most of first term sitting on her own in the student union building, eating Smarties. At the 2016 Census, Croydon had a population of 26,946. It’s quite another to describe how it feels to discover that the man who raised you is capable of killing in cold blood. In margaret’s kitchen, which, in a case of life imitating Kath & Kim, looks exactly like Kath Day-Knight’s kitchen in the fictional suburb of Fountain Lakes, Szubanski makes tea and produces a plate of shortbread (which I eat all on my own). “Everybody loves Magda,” says her friend, documentary producer Miche Bonett-Horton. They had settled in the English city of Liverpool but in 1965, when Magda was four, moved to Australia. Its local government area is the City of Maroondah. Add to Cart Remove from Cart Proceed to Cart. He gave Szubanski extra coaching, and when he played her himself, did whatever it took to beat her. I have watched her on television for years but it occurs to me that this is the first time I have really looked at her. Kath & Kim, one of the most popular comedies in Australian television history, ran for six years to 2007. Boy, do I understand other people who have addictions. When Szubanski asked how she should do that, he replied, “Just don’t eat.”. There’s all that sort of thing going on.” She writes that on one hand, it felt terrific to be fitter and lighter. She can confirm, too, that unhappiness is a rich source of humour. Peter had been a boy of 15 when Germany invaded his homeland in 1939. She thinks, too, that she can identify the cold, hard thing she saw in him: it was calcified guilt and shame. “It was really emotionally gruelling,” she says when we meet on a cool, bright Melbourne morning. Posted April 16, 2020 05:54:37 Australian comedian Magda Szubanski, as her … But cathartic. She had short, spiky hair. I totally regretted what I’d done. Szubanski came out publicly in 2012, making the announcement that she was gay on the Ten Network talk show, The Project. Targets were kept under surveillance. Hit the cinema after 6pm on a Wednesday or Sunday and pay $6. Berating herself for being weak and greedy, Szubanski slid into depression. She was inundated with messages of support. She is also known for providing Vox for Happy Feet (2006). She knew that soon after the Germans rolled into Warsaw, the then 15-year-old had started what he called a “private army”. And it wasn’t just the threat of prosecution that made gay people lie low. And while fans went nuts over the unusual pairing, rumours quickly began swirling that the duo didn’t actually film the advert together. By 14, she was certain of it – and terrified that her classmates would find out. Here was a man who had lost everything: the war, his country, his family. Szubanski grew up in Croydon North, then a mix of semi-rural holdings and new housing estates on the north-eastern outskirts of Melbourne. “His only way to cope with it was to shut the door on it,” Szubanski tells me. “I projected myself into the hero,” she writes, “and … I wooed and won some of the most beautiful dead actresses of all time.” “And terribly sad, and afraid that this would be fleeting. Her Polish father, Zbigniew, known to everyone as Peter, died in 2006. “I shot the bastard,” he said. “It was really emotionally gruelling,” she says when we meet on a cool, bright Melbourne morning. But this was the time of the Great Hunger, and no amount of midnight snacking got rid of the hollow feeling inside her. When it was clear that all was lost, he and other surviving resistance members escaped through the city’s sewers. “Once I turned the tap, I couldn’t stop the gush of words.”. The Nine Network commissioned five episodes, four of which were aired prior to the 2006 Commonwealth Games. We couldn’t keep him quiet.”. In a D-Generation sketch with Tom Gleisner, 1985. The cast of Kath and Kim. The great hunger, as Magda Szubanski calls it, began when she was 14. Szubanski went to Weight Watchers. Magda as Esme Hoggett, with co-star James Cromwell, in Babe, 1995. She knew that soon after the Germans rolled into Warsaw, the then 15-year-old had started what he called a “private army”. The journalist persisted: “One of the rumours is that you are … homosexual.” Szubanski repeated pleasantly that gossip didn’t concern her, but that it was time she left. She says she had misgivings when a major women’s magazine asked to do a story on her in 1992, but allowed herself to be talked into it. She understood by then why she had ballooned in the first place: “There’s no doubt that it was a way of hiding my sexuality.” She wanted to rid herself of the flab. Instead of losing weight, she gained it. Magda with her parents, Peter and Margaret,after her appearance on This is Your Life, 1996. When she asked what he did in the war, he would laugh and say, “I was an assassin.”. Price: $10. Peter said one of the Schmidts had a pistol he really fancied: a German Walther. Here's the powerful first chapter. Magda's first performance, Why Not Theatre, 1983. Berating herself for being weak and greedy, Szubanski slid into depression. “Just seeing the darkness of the human heart. Just hours later, Kath and Kim star Magda – who worked with the reality star last year on an Uber Eats ad - stuck up for Kim. I grew up in North Croydon. One night a few months before Peter died, aged 82, Szubanski had a long talk to him on the phone. “I’ve really blown my cover,” she says with a smile. Her Polish father, Zbigniew, known to everyone as Peter, died in 2006. “He was very charming,” Margaret says. She has agonised over whether she has been fair to Peter, whom she loved very much. In sketch shows such as Fast Forward, Big Girl’s Blouse and the current Open Slather on Foxtel’s The Comedy Channel, she has proved herself a master of disguise. “The only way I could cope with it was to have years of therapy and then start slowly prising that door open.” Researching the memoir – reading extensively on the brutality of what happened in wartime Poland – landed her back on the psychiatrist’s couch. “I really resisted that cliché about the sad clown until I realised I was one.” She ate and ate, but still she was hungry. But unusual. Szubanski went to Weight Watchers. “With the book, I had to confront a lot of things about myself,” she says. Senate Estimates have confirmed that Magda Szubanski and Nyadol Nyuon have been the target of right-wing extremists on social media. The couple had a daughter and a son, and after a gap of eight years, a third child: Magdalene Mary Therese. The answer is in the book: “She was born in my broken soul.”, At Szubanski’s suggestion, I have come to see her at the outer-suburban home of her doughty 90-year-old mother, Margaret. But unusual. “I know there’s still part of me that’s caught in a reaction to that,” she says. Magda as Esme Hoggett, with co-star James Cromwell, in Babe, 1995. This was not a complete bolt from the blue. Magda's first performance, Why Not Theatre, 1983. (Peter’s parents had been shipped out of Warsaw on a cattle truck after the uprising failed and resettled in north-western Poland. Peter said he had done this a dozen times. “I devised strange little counting rituals, tallying rapidly on my fingers every syllable as someone spoke,” she writes, “and I would stop only when I had reached a multiple of four. Magda with her father, Peter, in Croydon in about 1972. In a D-Generation sketch with Tom Gleisner, 1985. They were Volksdeutsche – Polish citizens, but ethnically German – and were known to be helping the Nazis hunt down Jews. Debonair.” Others concur. To complicate matters, she was nursing a shameful secret: she suspected she was “that most reviled and despised thing: a lezzo”. “I devised strange little counting rituals, tallying rapidly on my fingers every syllable as someone spoke,” she writes, “and I would stop only when I had reached a multiple of four. He then fought in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in which about 200,000 people died and most of the city was destroyed. “The only way I could cope with it was to have years of therapy and then start slowly prising that door open.” Researching the memoir – reading extensively on the brutality of what happened in wartime Poland – landed her back on the psychiatrist’s couch. Kim Kardashian West and Sharon Strzelecki – aka Magda Szubanski – teamed up for a hilarious Uber Eats campaign, which was released nationally over the weekend. Writing about a father who could be unkind and overbearing is one thing. When she watched old movies on TV, it was Grace Kelly and Vivien Leigh she swooned over. She would stand in front of the bathroom cabinet and stare at her mother’s sleeping pills. He would tell it like it was, and that was the way he would have wanted it.” She has, of course, been candid about herself, too. This was not a complete bolt from the blue. When Peter referred to his own role in the war, he would say: “I was judge, jury and executioner.” What did that mean, exactly? It’s quite another to describe how it feels to discover that the man who raised you is capable of killing in cold blood. Would kiss your hand.”, Peter would also do the samba at parties. I thought, ‘You stupid show-off!’ ”, She started piling on kilos. Magda's first performance, Why Not Theatre, 1983. Just before the war ended six years later, he fetched up in Scotland, where he met and married Margaret. I pounded my skull with my clenched fist. “They’re going, ‘Wow, you look amazing’, and they’re flirting with you more. “The relief has just been incredible,” she tells me. Magda Szubanski is one of Australia’s best known and most loved performers. She was a clever, sociable kid. After the war, when he thought about what he had done, he had felt doubt and remorse. No qualms of conscience, nothing.” But at other times, he admitted to her that, in his youth, he’d had no real understanding of mortality or moral complexity. She was a clever, sociable kid. And while their comedic performance has been praised, there has been speculation that they didn’t actually film the commercial together – but instead, shot the commercial separately. Magda Szubanski won our hearts as the friendly face of female comedy then harnessed that goodwill to fight for equality. The book blurb for Reckoning, Magda Szubanski's memoir, promises that it will 'touch the lives of its readers' and that it 'announces the arrival of a fearless writer and natural storyteller'. Magda's Funny Bits was a television comedy featuring Magda Szubanski that was broadcast on the Nine Network, Australia in early 2006. But then she put it all back on, with interest. Magda Szubanski spoke candidly about her health problems in the March issue of The Australian Women's Weekly. I think I’m just lucky I never got near heroin.”. “Everybody loves Magda,” says her friend, documentary producer Miche Bonett-Horton. He was tons of fun. She says she had misgivings when a major women’s magazine asked to do a story on her in 1992, but allowed herself to be talked into it. “Sharon had a very busy schedule,” Madga said, referring to her character. Eventually, her father told her that after a neighbour spoke of hearing him singing, Peter’s mother decided the situation was too dangerous and asked the child’s parents to take him away. So Peter had been dispensing summary justice before he joined the execution squad. “I slid down the wall of my hallway gasping and weeping,” she writes, “and I banged my head against the wall. Though only 157 centimetres tall, she was tipping the scales at 122 kilograms. She was emphatic that Peter’s idea that their mother had turned out the little Jewish boy was mistaken. She would slip out of bed in the middle of the night and pad into the kitchen to raid the biscuit tin. Which it was.”, In fact, she managed to keep most of the weight off for a couple of years. The summer Szubanski finished school, she broke the news that she was gay to her sister, Barb. But once in a while, when his children were noisy or unruly, he would refer irritably to the fact that his parents had hidden a Jewish boy in their Warsaw apartment. No make-up. Magda announces she is gay on Channel Ten's The Project inFebruary 2012. The unfazed response from her adored older sibling was a huge relief, but Szubanski couldn’t summon the courage to tell anyone else. And seeing glimpses of that in my father.”. The next time Peter saw the soldier, he himself was armed. “I’ve really blown my cover,” she says with a smile. An otherwise outgoing, expansive character, he didn’t reminisce about the war like most of his Polish friends. She began her career in university revues, then appeared in a number of sketch comedy shows before creating the iconic character of Sharon Strzelecki in ABC-TV’s Kath and Kim. “When I saw what they were doing to the children, I couldn’t stand that.”. “Suave. But once in a while, when his children were noisy or unruly, he would refer irritably to the fact that his parents had hidden a Jewish boy in their Warsaw apartment. An eerie calm came over Szubanski, who replied that she didn’t care what people said about her. Small, round and amiable, with an open, intelligent face, Szubanski is wearing black pants and a black leather jacket. Peter had spent the last part of the war in prison camps, emerging with sharply etched cheekbones and a strange sense of pride in his ability to survive on starvation rations. “I watched with relief and despair as my flesh armour thickened,” she remembers. Australian actress Magda Szubanski, 59, has created a coronavirus safety video for the Victorian Government as her beloved Kath & Kim character Sharon Strzelecki. Convinced – wrongly – that she was about to be outed, she decided she had no choice but to tell the truth to Margaret and Peter. “I was really frightened at one stage,” Ryan says, “because she was ending up in hospital a lot. The most poignant of all the characters Szubanski has created is Sharon Strzelecki, the unlucky-in-love netball enthusiast with the pudding-bowl haircut who shot to fame in the hit television series Kath & Kim. Szubanski’s brother, Chris, worked in a biscuit factory. I have watched her on television for years but it occurs to me that this is the first time I have really looked at her. Its mission was to track down and assassinate Gestapo agents and collaborators: Poles who gave the names of resistance members to the Nazis, or told Germans where Jews were hiding. Both statements could not be truer. “When I saw what they were doing to the children, I couldn’t stand that.”. I said, ‘Mag, you really need to do something about this.’ ”, Eating the meals in the Jenny Craig program and exercising with a trainer, Szubanski lost 39 kilograms. He told of seeing a German soldier pick up a young Jewish boy by the scruff of the neck and shoot him almost nonchalantly. The central message of her memoir: emotional wounds are passed from one generation to the next, as surely as if they were transferred in the DNA. The central message of her memoir: emotional wounds are passed from one generation to the next, as surely as if they were transferred in the DNA. The great hunger, as Magda Szubanski calls it, began when she was 14. Magda with her father, Peter, in Croydon in about 1972. Then, when the opportunity arose, a member of the squad would run up to the person, read a list of the crimes of which he or she had been found guilty, and deliver a bullet to the head at point-blank range. When Szubanski visited Warsaw, her aunt Danuta – Peter’s sister – told her that their parents’ apartment had been a hub of resistance activity. Convinced – wrongly – that she was about to be outed, she decided she had no choice but to tell the truth to Margaret and Peter. She says she had never been so scared in her life, but wanted to join the campaign for marriage equality and felt it was time to lay her cards on the table. A post shared by Magda Szubanski (@magda_szubanski) on Feb 4, 2017 at 1:47am PST Magda is supporting her mother while working on her latest project, a feature film called The BBQ , … “I watched with relief and despair as my flesh armour thickened,” she remembers. “That’s when I first understood that she was a really wonderful performer,” Downey says. Speaking during an interview on Nova’s Fitzy and Wippa on Tuesday, Magda finally set the record straight about whether or not they were in fact in the same room at the time. Szubanski reports that as she hugged them, she felt gratitude but also shame: she had underestimated her parents. But this was 1978, two years before homosexuality was decriminalised in Victoria. In six hours of recorded conversation, he had told her a remarkable story. Magda with her parents, Peter and Margaret,after her appearance on This is Your Life, 1996. This document is the prior work of another student and … Magda Szubanski, surrounded by a crowd of people, celebrating the passing of the Australian marriage equality bill on the lawn of Parliament House, Canberra, 7 December 2017 by Sean Davey ( Visual ) Portrait of Magda Szubanski by Jacqueline Mitelman ( Visual ) Szubanski’s brother, Chris, worked in a biscuit factory. But Szubanski says she was aware even as a child that there was something cold and hard below the surface. Lesbians were sick and weird, as far as the opinion-setters at Szubanski’s Catholic college were concerned. He killed those boys. As she understood it, this was a band of teenagers who created as much trouble for the Nazis as they could. “We were on the receiving end of disgust, which is not an easy thing to wear.”. Szubanski, whose contribution had included an alarmingly accurate impersonation of the English comedian Benny Hill, had known from her debut appearance in a school musical that she was completely at home centre-stage. When Szubanski went to Poland in 2009 to film an episode of the family-history documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?, the deputy curator of the Warsaw Uprising Museum told her that her father had been a hero of the resistance. Magda Szubanski is an English born Australian actress, comedian & writer. “Suave. Szubanski remembers becoming aware at this point in the conversation of a hissing noise in her head. When the book is out, she’ll have nowhere to hide. Eventually, her father told her that after a neighbour spoke of hearing him singing, Peter’s mother decided the situation was too dangerous and asked the child’s parents to take him away. It seemed only a matter of time before her secret would get out. If my hands were busy, I would count with my teeth.”. ‘You idiot! Just before the war ended six years later, he fetched up in Scotland, where he met and married Margaret. Even at her new weight, 83 kilograms, she was categorised as obese, but she appeared on the cover of The Australian Women’s Weekly in a glamorous black dress, and says people started treating her differently. Peter had been a boy of 15 when Germany invaded his homeland in 1939. “This is when he started telling me to lose weight,” she says. Their reaction was almost anticlimactic. Szubanski reports that as she hugged them, she felt gratitude but also shame: she had underestimated her parents. The following year, Szubanski accepted an invitation to become an ambassador for the Jenny Craig weight-loss business. Magda Szubanski, comedian and author, grew up in Croydon North and writes about it in her award-winning book Reckoning. She wholeheartedly agreed with that assessment. So Peter had been dispensing summary justice before he joined the execution squad. The secret unit reported directly to the leader of the Polish underground army in Warsaw. “Because it’s my coming to terms with what he did.”, During her teens and early adulthood, while Szubanski grappled with her sexual identity, she was also trying to put together the pieces of Peter’s past. For the whole ad, Szubanski was paid a nominal sum of $2,000 . A 1972 newspaper report about young Magda’s prowess on the tennis court, a sport her father trained her in relentlessly. 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