She's best-known as "Tina from Turners", the upbeat saleswoman who really loves cars in the TV ads for the used-vehicle dealership. But now Sieni Leo'o Olo, aka Bubbah, is turning up on our screen without the wheels - as one of the contestants in the fourth season of Taskmaster NZ.
The comedy game show, hosted by Seven Sharp's Jeremy Wells, sees five comedians pitted against each other in a series of bizarre but amusing challenges. For Bubbah, 27, it was a chance to flex the comedy muscles she's been developing since childhood.
"Taskmaster is probably the greatest thing I've ever done," she grins. "I'd never seen the show before, so I didn't really know what to expect. But it turned out to be so much fun and I couldn't believe I was getting paid to play games!"
While Bubbah admits to feeling nervous about meeting fellow contestants Dai Henwood, Karen O'Leary, Melanie Bracewell and Ray O'Leary, the funny folk "really clicked", she says. "I was especially in awe of Dai because I grew up watching him on TV and then I'm standing next this Kiwi legend! All the comedians were so well-seasoned compared to me, so I was scared, but they held my hand and helped me through. I've made life-long friends though this show."
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