Leigh Hart Biography
Leigh Hart, widely known as “That Guy” in New Zealand, is a comedian, radio broadcaster, and performance artist. He has been on New Zealand television shows such as SportsCafe and his own show, Moon TV.
How old is Leigh Hart? – Age
He is 52 years old as of 20 July 2022. He was born in 1970 in Greymouth, New Zealand.
Leigh Hart Family – Education
He spent ten years living abroad with his family, including four years in Peru. When he was eleven, his family returned to New Zealand. He attended Christ’s College in Christchurch before transferring to the University of Canterbury for a year. Hart enrolled in film and television school, where he launched The Moon, a satirical newspaper.
Is Leigh Hart Married?
He is married to Ange Hart.
Leigh Hart Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Leigh Hart Beer
Wakachangi, Leigh’s own beer brand, was released in July 2013 by Harringtons Brewery. It was initially advertised to students throwing large parties throughout the country (particularly in Dunedin) and sold in 2-litre bottles. Wakachangi was introduced in 330ml bottles countrywide in October 2013 at all Liquorlands. The beer is described as “a South Otago beer, with North Canterbury flavors, brewed by a West Coaster, with the ol’ misty waters of the Waikato – est circa 1648,” and winner of the Moon Breweries beer awards.
Leigh Hart Mysterious Planet
Hart debuted Leigh Hart’s Mysterious Planet in 2010, which he billed as a “epic TV disaster extravaganza.” It was a mockumentary series in which he traveled the world in search of answers to the world’s greatest mysteries, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, UFOs, the Bermuda Triangle, lost Inca gold, the pyramids, and Stonehenge. Prior to the show’s debut, Hart penned a funny piece for the New Zealand Herald titled “That Guy: Let’s hear it for the Maori sasquatch” on his experiences at a Bigfoot conference. Hart later stated that when the piece was published, he received criticism from attendance.
Leigh Hart Career
Hart moved to Auckland in the middle of the 1990s and began working for Greenstone Pictures in television production. He wrote the first few episodes of The Zoo. In 1996, maker Marc Ellis enlisted him for an empty visitor spot on a 1996 episode of SportsCafe, in which he showed up as an “worldwide snail coach.” He was in this manner offered a week by week job as a games questioner and assumed the epithet of “That Person”.
Moon TV was a late-night comedy show that Hart produced and starred in from 2002 to 2010. The show featured interviews with well-known New Zealanders and parodies of various television shows. Both the 2005 New Zealand Screen Awards and the 2007 Air New Zealand Screen Awards had it up for Best Comedy Program. Late Night Big Breakfast, a Hart, Jason Hoyte, and Jeremy Wells-hosted spin-off, aired from 2014 to 2016 and was revived for a second season in 2020.
He presented Olympico in 2012, a three-episode mockery of the London Olympics with Jeremy Wells and Jason Hoyte. In 2013, he gave an episode of the documentary show Descent from Disaster. In it, he talked about the 1967 Strongman Mine disaster that devastated New Zealand, especially the West Coast, and he talked to friends and family who were directly affected. He and his friend Jason Hoyte co-hosted the unscripted fishing comedy show Screaming Reels in 2017. The Seven Network mistakenly broadcast it as a documentary series in Australia.
From 2015 to 2019, Hauraki Hart and Hoyte hosted the drive-time show Daily Bhuja on Radio Hauraki. From 2007 to 2011, Hart also worked for the television show Fair Go and wrote a column for the Herald on Sunday.
Hart made an appearance on the first season of the New Zealand show Taskmaster in 2020. Hart was described as “the stand-out performer, largely because you can’t quite pin down what he’s thinking or what he’s going to do next” in a review published by The Spinoff.