Share At the time, she was offered $5000 to pose as a centerfold in the magazine, but knocked it back to return to Australia to focus on her acting career. Back home, she landed a few small gigs, before being picked up as the host of the short-lived game show High Rollers in 1975. Flashback: The Queensland-born beauty, now aged 69, got her start in showbiz as a teen model before working as a weather girl in Brisbane and Melbourne Glamour: Delvene was arguably one of the biggest Australian sex symbols of the 1970s It was the exposure from High Rollers that led to her being discovered by Cornell, who quickly became her manager and then lover.