“I need to confess something, and this is a long time coming,” Ben Fordham began on his Breakfast program.

“Some years ago, I had been out to dinner with a few mates and I’d had a couple of drinks.

“I was in a taxi going home listening to Stan Zemanek and Stan Zemanek started unloading on David Leckie and I thought, what would happen if I called up Stan pretending to be David Leckie.”

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David Leckie, the former boss of Channel 9 and 7, died this week after a long illness.

David Leckie image: Getty/Patrick Riviere