"Roaring with laughter": Joh Griggs spills on embarrassing career moment
As a former Olympic swimmer and now beloved host of Better Homes and Gardens, Johanna Griggs clearly has a lot of talent.
But there's one thing she admitted she can not do - act.
She jokingly described her brief appearance as a Swedish tourist on Home and Away in 1992 as a form of “torture”, and recalled the moment she realised impersonating others was just not for her.
“I was working with Nicolle Dickson (who played Bobby), who was so much shorter than me, and we’d get to the end of every take and just be roaring with laughter,” she said in an interview with TV Week.
“In my head I was like, ‘mortifyingly terrible!’
“I don’t know how anyone pretends to be someone else.
“It was hilarious and mortifyingly terrible, but a good way to learn that I didn’t want to be an actor.”
Funnily enough, after her appearance on Home and Away, she started getting more acting offers.
“My manager would say to people, ‘look, we politely decline’ (and) they’d go, ‘No, no, I think there’s a real possibility here’,” she recalled.
“And (my manager would) be like, ‘Yeah, I could send you 30 seconds of vision that would probably change your mind’.”
Griggs has since realised that she as better off just being herself, and has had a successful career being the host of Better Homes and Gardens for 20 of its 30 years on air.
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