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Sports
 
Sports
  
==Notable Achievements==
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==Description==
  
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Former professional auto racer, journalist.  Sex change operation two years before death, becoming Pip.  Author of his family memoirs he wrote jointly with his brother, Richard, Desirelines, 'An Unusual Family Memoir'.  Hosted 'Torque', a long-running television show for ABC TV.  Though married, he confessed to  his passion for cross-dressing, and in the last stages of his life he lived as a woman.  Brother is theatre and opera director [[Richard Wherrett]].
  
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* http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/a-passion-for-cars-and-women-20090324-98un.html
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* http://televisionau.com/2009/03/peter-wherrett.html
  
Former professional auto racer, journalist. Sex change operation two years before death, becoming Pip.
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Latest revision as of 02:21, 29 January 2015

Peter Wherrett

Country

Australia

Birth - Death

1936 - 2009

Occupation

Sports

Description

Former professional auto racer, journalist. Sex change operation two years before death, becoming Pip. Author of his family memoirs he wrote jointly with his brother, Richard, Desirelines, 'An Unusual Family Memoir'. Hosted 'Torque', a long-running television show for ABC TV. Though married, he confessed to his passion for cross-dressing, and in the last stages of his life he lived as a woman. Brother is theatre and opera director Richard Wherrett.

Further Reading/Research


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