- Willsy holds the record [to date, July 2015] for most Australian television Logie Awards won by an individual which is a total of nineteen.
- Sister of Susan Wills.
- Friends with Bill Hayes, Susan Seaforth Hayes, Tippi Hedren, Barry Ion, Dorinda Hafner, Ralf Hadzic, Peter Goers, Peter Sellen, Heather Croall, Amber Cordeaux, Ken Cunningham and Mark Trevorrow (aka Bob Downe).
- Willsy was born in Wangaratta, Victoria in 1944 but her family moved to Ocean Island near Nauru in the Central Pacific Ocean in 1946 and resided there for about seventeen years until they moved to Adelaide, South Australia in 1963. Anne Wills by the next year was appearing on South Australian television on NWS Channel 9.
- When Ernie Sigley traveled overseas, Anne Wills in 1970 became the first female in South Australia to host Adelaide Tonight (1959).
- Willsy was the weather presenter on Adelaide's Seven Nightly News on Channel SAS-7 South Australia for several years.
- Of the nineteen Australian television Logie Awards that Anne Wills has won, one statuette got stolen, and two Logies were given away, leaving Willsy left with sixteen Logies remaining in her possession.
- Willsy and her sister Susan Wills entertained the troops in Vietnam during the war in an act billed as "The Wills Sisters". After about thirty years, the pair re-united in March 2001 for a special reunion concert tour in South Australia which was hugely successful.
- Broadcast in South Australia, between 1967 and 1973, Willsy appeared on Adelaide Tonight (1959) twice a week star teamed with Ernie Sigley. The partnership came to a conclusion in December 1973 when Sigley moved interstate to Victoria, Australia.
- Anne Wills' nickname is Willsy and her full birth name is Anne Shirley Wills.
- Anne Wills holds the record for the most Australian Logie Awards ever won by one person, mostly for Most Popular Female Television Personality (for South Australia) winner, all won between the years 1968 and 1992.
- Willsy's Movie Scene (1981) television new movie release show ran for seventeen years between 1981 and 1998.
- Totalled together, Willsy's television movie shows ran for around two decades or twenty years: Clapperboard (1980) (one year), Close Up with Willsy (1998) (two years), and Movie Scene (1981) (seventeen years).
- In 1981, Willsy won two Logie Awards, one for Most Popular Female Television Personality (South Australia), and one as a producer for Most Popular Show (South Australia) - Clapperboard (1980) (Nine Network) - a TV new movies release show.
- Willsy's first husband, Michael Fenwick, married in 1976, after about four years of marriage, was tragically killed in a light airplane accident in August 1980.
- Anne Wills first came to the attention of the Australian television industry when Willsy was spotted by Channel Nine television executives during their Telethon Quest in 1964.
- Willsy regularly attended the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, California, USA each year when hosting one of her popular South Australian television movie shows.
- Anne Wills' first role in television, was as the weather girl on Adelaide's NWS Channel 9 in South Australia, beginning in July, 1965.
- Willsy has made appearances on a number of national Australian television shows such as "Password", "Celebrity Squares", In Melbourne Tonight (1957) with Graham Kennedy, Beauty and the Beast (1996) with Stan Zemanek, Good Morning Australia (1993) and The Bert Newton Show (1959).
- Willsy has hosted and/or co-hosted at different times three television new movie release shows: Clapperboard (1980), Movie Scene (1981) and Close Up with Willsy (1998).
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