- Hamblin moved to Australia with his second wife, Wendy in the 1960s.
- John Hamblin had three wives, however, his first wife is not known, second wife was Wendy and third wife was Jenny.
- When Hamblin's mother moved in with the local baker, his father moved the rest of the family to Norfolk. He lost contact with his mother at that point.
- Has two children, Emma and Myles.
- Hamblin's father had flown with the Royal Flying Corps during World War I and Hamblin himself joined the Air Force and did his national service in Cyprus in the late 1950s before returning to England.
- He presented for 29 years the Australian children's programme Play School from 1970 to 1999. In 2016, he returned briefly for a special guest appearance as part of Play School's 50th Anniversary special.
- He was known to add the occasional double-entendre when presenting Play School (1966), which would only be understood by parents who were watching with their children. On one occasion he pretended to be a garage mechanic while his co-presenter Benita Collings pretended to be a car. He crawled underneath the "car" (Benita) and as the camera looked down at him between her legs, he quipped "Well her big end's gone, but I think I can fix it". On another occasion, Benita pretended to be a house while John was pretending to be an estate agent inspecting it. "Fine house", he said, and then walked behind her and stared at her bottom. "And a good back entrance as well".
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