Former Play School star Noni Hazelhurst has opened up about her divorce from Wolf Creek actor John Jarratt after more than a decade of marriage.
Noni, 71, and John, 73, tied the knot in 1987 and split 12 years later in 1999.
They co-hosted Channel Seven’s popular lifestyle show Better Homes and Gardens while married.
Noni, who has just released her memoir Dropping The Mask, says she has been ‘in shock since’ their divorce.
“John and I had some great times together, but then we didn’t,” Noni said Women’s Day.
‘That applies to many relationships. They start out full of hope and optimism and gradually hidden issues come to the surface.’
Noni claims she knew her marriage was over when John became “close” to someone from the Better Homes And Gardens production crew.
“At that moment I knew the marriage was over,” she said.
Former Play School star Noni Hazelhurst has opened up about her divorce from Wolf Creek actor John Jarratt after more than a decade of marriage
‘We just wanted different things. I wanted a family. John wanted another woman.
‘The end of my previous relationships was hard enough, but this was even worse. In a way, I think I’ve been in shock ever since.”
Despite the breakdown of their relationship, Noni said her two children from her marriage to John – Charlie, 36, and William, 30 – had been a blessing.
“Whatever happened cannot destroy the joy they brought me,” Noni said.
When contacted by Ny Breaking Australia, John said: “That was about 20 years ago. It’s prehistoric and I have nothing more to say.’
John, who played iconic outback villain Mick Taylor in the Wolf Creek horror films, was Noni’s second husband after the acclaimed actress married director Kevin Dobson from 1975 to 1978.
Noni, 71, and John, 73, tied the knot in 1987 and split 12 years later in 1999. They co-hosted the popular Channel Seven lifestyle show Better Homes and Gardens while married.
John has been married four times: twice to Rosa Miano, Noni and third wife Cody Jarratt, whom he married in 2011.
He married Rosa in the 1970s and the couple have two children together, Zadia and Ebony.
After splitting with Noni and Cody, John eventually remarried Rosa in 2017.
While she may be best known for her role on Play School, appearing as a host on the show from 1978 to 2001, Noni has also enjoyed a legendary film and television acting career.
One of her most beloved big-screen roles is in the 1982 film Monkey Grip, in which she stars alongside Colin Friels, 72.
In an exclusive excerpt from her memoir Dropping the Mask, published on news.com.auNoni revealed that even though she and Colin fogged up the screen in the film, all was not as it seemed.
Noni, who has just released her memoir Dropping The Mask, says she has been ‘in shock since’ their divorce
Noni recalled a steamy scene in which Colin had to kiss her “up and down my upper body” and while the end result was “sensual and tenderly romantic,” the piping told a different story.
‘With no music to enhance the scene, all we could hear was the strange slurping sound [director] Ken Cameron’s voice carries us through the action,” she said.
“Slower Colin, hang there for a while, don’t eat her, be gentle, put that thing in your mouth again with your fingers Noni, slower Colin, go up, go down, too rough, move to the side, slower Colin” and so forth.”
