He's approaching his 70th birthday, but the grand-daddy of Australian television, Bert Newton, says he has no intention of slowing down.
The Gold Logie-winning veteran whose career as a TV presenter began in 1957, plans to keep working well after his milestone birthday.
"No, it (retirement) is not in my vocabulary because I like what I do so much," he told the Nine Network's A Current Affair program.
"I know that's not enough. Other people have got to like what you do too, and there will come a time they won't, and I'll be asked to move on.
"If it's my decision, which I doubt it will be, but if it's my decision, it will be because I've lost that passion and I think if that's the case, you should step aside and let somebody who has the passion fill your boots.
"I say that so I have covered myself when it happens.
"`I told you so', I'll say. There's the tap on the shoulder, and I would imagine if I'm still working at 80 a tap on the shoulder could do me quite a bit of harm."
Newton said his seven-month-old grandson Sam, born to his daughter Lauren and her husband, swimmer Matt Welsh, was "the light of his life at the moment" and that he was not feeling his age.
"There are parts of my body which feel a little older and aren't doing the things they used to do but in my mind I don't feel anything like 70," he said.
Presently, Newton is the host of the retrospective clip show 20 To 1.
He was earlier this month named the 2008 Victorian of the Year.
The Nine Network will mark Newton's 70th birthday on July 23 with a special edition of This Is Your Life.