Barry Humphries: Dame Edna Everage star in hospital for 'health issues'

Australian entertainer Barry Humphries, champion known for his comic quality Dame Edna Everage, is being treated successful hospital, his household person said.

The comedian, 89, had hep country past period aft a autumn successful February, and was readmitted pursuing complications, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

His household said helium was "in infirmary receiving attraction for wellness issues".

They said helium thanked "everybody for the enactment and bully wishes helium has received but would similar much and more".

In a connection to the paper, they added: "He would besides similar to convey the fantastic doctors, nurses and unit astatine St Vincent's Hospital."

His woman Lizzie Spender was quoted by the work arsenic saying helium was "fine".

Broadcaster Andrew Neil tweeted connected Saturday to accidental helium had visited the "legendary" Humphries, who helium said had been having attraction "for months".

"As ever helium had maine successful stitches adjacent though he's been undergoing assorted treatments for months successful hospital," Neil wrote. "I americium successful awe of his courage. And, of course, his humour, which is irrepressible, adjacent successful adversity."

Humphries' astir celebrated instauration became a deed successful the UK successful the 1970s and landed her ain TV chat show, the Dame Edna Everage Experience, successful the precocious 1980s.

Famed for her lilac-rinsed hairsbreadth and flamboyant glasses, she was often heard greeting audiences with the catchphrase: "Hello, Possums!"

His different fashionable characters connected signifier and surface see the lecherous drunk Australian taste attaché Sir Les Patterson, and the much grandfatherly Sandy Stone.

He said of Stone successful 2016 that helium could "finally consciousness myself turning into him".

The actor, author, manager and scriptwriter, who is besides a keen scenery painter, announced a farewell circuit for his satirical one-man signifier amusement successful 2012.