We Celebrate The Life And Say Goodbye To Bert’s Big Adventure Kid Alyssa Leonard
The Bert Show
The Bert Show
4.1 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
With heavy hearts we share the news that Alyssa Leonard passed away on January 11, 2025 at 26. She was just eight years old when she first became part of the Bert’s Big Adventure family in 2007.
Bert talks about what Alyssa meant to him and shares his experience saying goodbye to this special individual here.
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| 0:00.0 | Cabin crew, prepare for landing. |
| 0:02.6 | Wow, that was a quick flight. |
| 0:04.4 | Never mind, Bondi Beach, barrier, reef, here we come. |
| 0:07.8 | Holiday of a lifetime, cannot wait. |
| 0:10.2 | Me neither. |
| 0:12.5 | Ladies and gentlemen, we'll shortly be landing in Austria. |
| 0:16.1 | Austria? We're supposed to be going to Australia. |
| 0:19.6 | What have you done? |
| 0:21.9 | Should have gone to Spec Savers. |
| 0:23.8 | Book an eye test online. |
| 0:25.3 | Has anyone got any long trousers I could borrow? |
| 0:28.1 | I've only got a bikini, Andy. |
| 0:32.3 | The Bert Shire. |
| 0:33.8 | It's a whole bunch of us feeling super, super sad over the last couple of days. |
| 0:39.3 | Myself, the Leonard family, our Burt's Big Adventure family, and anybody that has ever come in contact with Alyssa Leonard, our Burt's Big Adventure kid from 2007. |
| 0:52.8 | I'm probably going to be a little bit all over the place with this segment because |
| 0:57.3 | I'm just in a really deeply sad spot since Saturday. |
| 1:03.6 | We've been doing Birx Big Adventure, and if you're new around here, this is the trip that |
| 1:07.3 | we take down to Disney World with kids that have chronic and terminal illnesses. |
| 1:12.1 | Alyssa Leonard joined us, joined us in 2007. |
| 1:15.6 | She found out she had a brain tumor when she was four years old. |
| 1:21.0 | And she joined us when she was just, I guess, seven years old? |
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