Leigh Bennie
Leigh Bennie is a South African radio broadcaster became famous after her appearance on Big Brother (South Africa). She presently occupies the A Word On slot on 567 Cape Talk and Talk Radio 702, in which capacity she hosts various experts as they deconstruct the esoterica of legal matters, cars, medical matters, finance and psychology.
Biography
Born in Cape Town, Bennie was raised in a Usutu Valley hamlet in Swaziland. This, she wrote, "provided a beautiful CONTRAST to my early life". She spent two years in a Pietermaritzburg boarding school, and two more at university, before dropping out to "explore freedom" and become a waitress in what she describes as the terrifying metropolis of Johannesburg.
She later returned to Cape Town as part of her training as an air traffic controller. There she began "working on my 'happily ever after', until stardom/self-humiliation in the form of reality television summoned me back to Gauteng." There she took part in the smash-hit Big Brother before moving to radio.
Bennie, a self-described adrenaline junkie who says she is "[e]ver the adventurer," climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in August of 2008.
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References
- Bennie, Leigh. "Leigh Bennie." Talk Radio 702. 30 December 2008. 1 (accessed December 30, 2008).