Getting on the television as a reporter and presenter just seemed to happen. While I was interested in all parts of the media I had never really seen on-screen presenting as my main goal. But given that the inspiration for my life in television came from my high profile television-presenting godmother it was bound to [...]
So – I am in telly production, learning a lot from a weekly live factual entertainment show, meeting famous people in the studio, working hard and loving it. But as always office politics intervenes. Politics is a way of life in any organisation – once a large-ish group of people are put together and put [...]
In Johannesburg, South Africa, broke and no ticket home the first priority was a job. No work visa led me to the obvious places and I got a waitressing job in Hillbrow (akin to London’s Soho area then – a no-go area now!). An advert for Production Assistants at the South African Broadcasting Corporation caught [...]