Leigh Hart Biography
Leigh Hart is a comedian, radio broadcaster, and performance artist who has been on New Zealand TV shows including in SportsCafe and his show Moon TV.
Before spending a year at the University of Canterbury, he transferred to Christ’s College in Christchurch. Hart started The Moon, a satirical newspaper, while he was enrolled in film and television school.
Leigh Hart Age
He is 52 years old as of 20 July 2022. He was born on 20 July 1970 in Greymouth, New Zealand.
Leigh Hart Wife (Is Leigh Hart Married?)
He is married to Ange Hart.
Leigh Hart Family
With his family, he lived abroad for ten years, four of which were spent in Peru. At the point when he was eleven, his family got back to New Zealand.
Leigh Hart Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $3 Million.
Leigh Hart Moon TV
Hart developed and acted in Moon TV, a late-night comedy show, from 2002 until 2010. The show mocked other television shows and included interviews with New Zealand celebrities. It was nominated for Best Comedy Programme at both the New Zealand Screen Awards in 2005 and the Air New Zealand Screen Awards in 2007. Late Night Big Breakfast, a spin-off show hosted by Hart, Jason Hoyte, and Jeremy Wells, aired from 2014 to 2016, and was renewed for another season in 2020.
Leigh Hart Beer
Leigh introduced his own beer, Wakachangi, in July 2013, which was produced by Harringtons Brewery. It was initially sold in 2-liter bottles and targeted students hosting large parties across the nation, particularly in Dunedin. In October 2013, Wakachangi was made available nationwide in 330 milliliter bottles at all Liquorlands. Hart stated that the beer’s label contained “hardly a true word”; It was named the winner of the Moon Breweries beer awards and is described as “a South Otago beer, with North Canterbury flavours, brewed by a West Coaster, with the old misty waters of the Waikato – est circa 1648.”
Leigh Hart Career
Hart relocated to Auckland in the mid-1990s and began working in television production for Greenstone Pictures. He was a writer on early episodes of The Zoo and was approached by producer Marc Ellis in 1996 for a cameo appearance on SportsCafe. Later, he adopted the moniker “That Guy” and produced and performed in Moon TV, a late-night comedy show that mimicked various television shows and featured interviews with New Zealand celebrities. At the 2005 New Zealand Screen Awards and the 2007 Air New Zealand Screen Awards, the show was nominated for Best Comedy Programme.
Leigh Hart’s Mysterious Planet, an epic TV catastrophe extravaganza in which he travels the world to uncover the world’s greatest mysteries, premiered in 2010.He penned a hilarious story for the New Zealand Herald about his Bigfoot conference experiences, which was eventually published online. In 2012, he debuted Olympico, a three-part comedy series on the London Olympics. In 2013, he appeared on an episode of the documentary series Descent from catastrophe, which examined the 1967 Strongman Mine catastrophe, which shocked New Zealand, particularly the West Coast.
In 2017, Hart and Jason Hoyte co-hosted Screaming Reels, an unscripted fishing comedy show that was mislabeled as a documentary series by the Seven Network in Australia. From 2015 until 2019, Hart and Hoyte hosted the drive-time show Daily Bhuja on Radio Hauraki. From 2007 to 2011, he also authored a column for the Herald on Sunday and worked on the television show Fair Go. In 2020, Hart appeared in the first season of Taskmaster in New Zealand, earning him the moniker “That Guy.”
