A point to prove

Xposé winner Kathleen Leahy tells Rachel Borrill it’s vital to jump out of your comfort zone.

IT has been a week she will never forget. The cameras, the lights, the adrenalin rush — but for Kathleen Leahy, 67, she also hopes that her time as a presenter on TV3’s Xposé programme will prove older people can contribute and have a “wealth of life experience’’ to offer.

“I was very nervous on Monday. It was like going back to school. I was taken so far out of my comfort zone,’’ she says. “But I am enjoying it. I am very proud and very privileged to be chosen to do something for us older people.’’