Leigh Sales (Leigh Peta Sales) is an Australian author and journalist born on 10th May 1973 in Brisbane, Australia. She hosts the Australian television channel ABC’s flagship news and current affairs program 7.30.
Leigh Sales is best famous for hosting the Australian television channel ABC’s flagship news and current affairs program 7.30. since 2011.
Leigh Sales was born as 10 May 1973 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia to father Dale Sale, a regimental sergeant major in the Australian Army and mother Ann, a clerk at Telecom. She has one sibling, a brother, Glen Sale. Her nationality is Australian and belongs to White ethnicity. She is skeptical about religion and Her horoscope is Taurus. Leigh studied journalism at the Queensland University of Technology and later joined Deakin University where she did a Master of International Relations.
Initially, Sales worked for Nine Network during the year 2000. From 2001 to 2005, she was the network’s Washington correspondent, covering stories including the Iraq War, the 2004 presidential election, Guantanamo Bay and Hurricane Katrina. From 2006 to 2008 she worked for the ABC’s national security correspondent based in Sydney. In 2011 Sales was appointed as the presenter of the ABC’s flagship news and current affairs program, 7.30. Sales also started a podcast in November 2014, with Annabel Crabb called Chat 10 Looks 3 where they talk about books, movies, television, the media, and culture. As an author, She is the author of two critically acclaimed books, Detane 002, The case of David Hicks and On Doubt published in 2007 and 2009 separately. Leigh also wrote "No Ordinary Day" after her deal which happened to 2014 from having a uterine ruptured,
She also writes a fortnightly blog called Well-readhead, which is mostly about books and reading. The blog appears on both the ABC’s The Drum website and News Limited’s The Punch. Looking at her history of journalism and author she is really into them and doing her best for the job.
2005: Walkley Award for Best Radio Current Affairs reporting on Guantanamo Bay 2007: George Munster Award for Independent Journalism for Detainee 002. In 2012: Walkley Award for Broadcasting and Online Interviewing. In 2019, she was awarded an Order of Australia for her services to broadcast journalism.
Leigh's net worth is estimated at $460,000, and her salary is $280,400 which she earns from ABC. Leigh owns 2million worth 5 bedroom mansion based in Sydney. Information regarding her cars is not in the public records.
Leigh Sales married Phil Willis, a math teacher, in 1996. They divorced in 2016 after 20 years. Leigh with her now ex-husband Phil Willis have two children: Daniel Oscar Willis (born in 2012) and James Willis (born in 2014).
Leigh has a height of 5feet 6inches and a balanced weight of 59 kg. She has green eyes and dark brown hair color. Her other body measurement is 36-29-35 inches. Her bra size is 34D. She fits in the dress size of 8 (US) and walks on a shoe size of 9(US). She is a straight sexual orientation.
Leigh is a very active user on social media. She has over 372K followers on Twitter profile @leighsales and 57.3K followers on Instagram profile @leigh_sales. Her original Facebook profile is not discovered.