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More on Mark Pilgrim....
In 2003 Mark was back
at the helm of Big Brother Africa, the biggest Big
Brother venture embarked on anywhere in the world.
An estimated 32 million viewers in 52 countries,
watching on 14 television networks, saw him in
action every week.
Some of Mark’s
appearances include events for the following
corporate events: Glaxo Smith Kline African
Continent Conference, Johnson & Johnson Annual sales
Conference and BP Africa Conference.
Mark has also been
involved in numerous TV shows and commercials.
Perhaps best known as the host of three Big Brother
reality TV shows, he has also hosted New Moves on
e-TV, Face 2 Face on SABC2 as well as Retail Therapy
and Sex Etc on MNET.
His true passion
though is radio, and the SA public are very familiar
with Mark’s voice as radio deejay.
After obtaining his
B.Com and working in market research for 10 years,
he decided to follow his heart and joined 5FM back
in 1995. After 8 years they parted ways and he now
freelances for 94.7 Highveld Stereo, hosting
Johannesburg's only independent chart show TAKE40SA.
In addition, he is a
regular DJ at nightclubs around the country and also
co-owns Nitefever, one of Johannesburg's top
nightclubs. As a voice artist, Mark also spends a
lot of his working day in post production studios,
narrating numerous radio and TV commercials.
Mark is a motivational
speaker, sharing his story on testicular cancer, how
he overcame it and how it pushed him to follow his
dreams.
Mark is also a
lecturer at Damelin in Johannesburg and Centurion,
presenting the Television Course. He is also a
tomato farmer (he is part of a consortium that has
constructed the biggest hydroponics tomato
greenhouse in the country, situated close to East
London airport).
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