Abby Coleman

Fact! I like to talk. I got kicked out of snorkelling class on the Great Barrier Reef at the age of five cause I refused to take their word for it that I couldn't talk under water to the fish. It seemed their insurance wouldn't cover me drowning, so my parents had to come pick me up. They didn’t help matters though. Their nickname for me was “Blowfly.” Mainly blowfly's are annoying, constantly make noise and you can’t shake them off! They love me really…..

I worked at SAFM in 2000 as a Black Thunder Pilot, after doing a silly reality show with a really bad name……”The Mole.” It was great fun but I always wanted to be a thespian so moved to Sydney to go to drama school for three years. I absolutely loved it and wanted to do Shakespeare forever. But it seemed there wasn’t much work in theatre. Not any that would pay me enough to be able to feed myself, and my dyslexia often meant I changed some of Shakespeare's words - not ideal.

So, as a proud Adelaidian, I decided to move back to Adelaide to finish my marketing degree at university - a degree I started in the year 2000 - I'm still working on that - one subject at a time!

I love my boyfriend - (yeah I threw up then too) and I have the greatest friends in the world. I also made a dare I would audition for “So You Think You Can Dance” one year. No really…. I so think I can dance...... just not heaps good!

You can hear Abby Coleman on 107.1 SAFM between 9-1pm weekdays.