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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Amanda Meade

How the ABC bid farewell to ‘famously unflappable’ 7.30 host Leigh Sales

Leigh Sales with Annabel Crabb
Leigh Sales with Annabel Crabb at her farewell party Photograph: Amanda Meade

Leigh Sales started her final day as host of 7.30 after a 12-year-stint by posting a video outside a convenience store, dressed in trackies and clutching a donut and a 7-Eleven coffee.

The former Washington correspondent and Lateline host, 49, arrived at work at 7am and did four media interviews before 9.30am. She recorded a voiceover for a special farewell program before starting the day’s work on the final program. It’s a relentless 12-hour day that she has juggled with two young boys for more than a decade.

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