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Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery: June 17

This week Leigh Sales demonstrates her former singing talent at weddings.

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This week on Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery, Leigh Sales is in Brissy, demonstrating her former singing talent at weddings.

Leigh Sales, host of ABC TV’s 7.30, is one of the country’s most respected journalists, but confesses she’s a lot more comfortable as the interviewer rather than the interviewee. No need to worry because she comes across as a charming, expansive, thoughtful and playful subject.

In a stunning old 70s Holden, Leigh and Julia set off through the northern suburbs of Brisbane, to where Leigh spent her childhood. Describing family life she says her mother and army father ran a tight ship, and discipline was key. Their ‘work now, play later’ attitude, Leigh asserts, has stood her in good stead throughout her career. She tells of how, as a young girl, she learnt to relish a challenge – whether it be learning a new piano piece or beating her brother at cricket.

The pair then heads to Bald Hills Primary School, but not before a stop at the local shops where they take on a Space Invaders challenge in a battle of wills and skills. At the school we meet up with Leigh’s closest friend Mandy McDonald, and they talk about their long-lasting friendship and the ‘girly swots’ that they used to be.

After a whistle-stop tour of Aspley High School they visit a church in Lutwyche where Leigh had an unlikely job as a pianist and wedding singer during her university years. She sits at the keyboard, and with Julia accompanying, bangs out her most requested song, Wind Beneath My Wings

9pm Wednesday on ABC.

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