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25 Facts About Bianca Dye

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Bianca Dye was born on 24 August 1973 and is an Australian radio presenter.

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Issi Bianca Dye has enjoyed considerable success in the Australian entertainment industry as a singer and television personality.

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Bianca Dye's grandmother's mother and sister were murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz but her grandmother escaped with a doctor, Benjamin Dyzenhaus, and the couple subsequently immigrated to Australia with their son Israel, who had been born in 1946.

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At the age of 15, Bianca Dye ran away from home and caught the bus to Melbourne to be with her mother, after which Bianca Dye enrolled at Brighton Secondary College.

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Bianca Dye's profile rose when she began hosting a nationally networked evening show for RG Capital, originating from 92.5 Gold FM on the Gold Coast, called The Nitemix Across Australia with Bianca Dye in the late 1990s.

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In 2001, Bianca Dye became one of the foundation presenters at new Sydney radio station Nova 96.9 and remained at the station until she left in December 2007 to travel overseas.

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Originally a morning announcer at Nova, Bianca Dye moved to the station's afternoon drive program with Tim Blackwell in January 2006.

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Bianca Dye returned to the Gold Coast in mid-2008 for a brief period co-hosting the Hot Tomato breakfast show.

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In 2009, Bianca Dye relocated to the New South Wales city of Wollongong in the Illawarra to take up a job as a breakfast presenter at i98FM.

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Bianca Dye remained at i98FM until June 2015 when she left to focus on her attempts at conceiving a child with IVF treatment.

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In early 2017, Bianca Dye replaced popular radio host Robin Bailey on 97.3 FM's breakfast program in Brisbane, when Bailey was controversially sacked after her contract negotiations with the station failed.

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Bianca Dye again returned to the Gold Coast in July 2020 where she commenced co-hosting the breakfast program on Sea FM 90.9 with Ben Hannant and Dan Anstey.

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Bianca Dye has guest hosted Studio 10 and was as a panelist on Beauty and the Beast.

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Bianca Dye has been a contestant on Thank God You're Here, Ready Steady Cook, Celebrity Dog School, Celebrity Singing Bee and Australia's Brainiest.

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Bianca Dye has regularly shares updates pertaining to problems with her fertility and her desire to become a parent, which has included undergoing IVF treatment.

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In 2017, Bianca Dye alleged that, when she was aged in her early 20s, a former boyfriend physically assaulted her after she had broken up with him.

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At the age of 29, Bianca Dye was diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder.

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Bianca Dye is known for her advocacy and encouragement of body positivity.

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In January 2010, Bianca Dye criticised Marie Claire magazine for using model Jennifer Hawkins as an example of a natural role model when they published an untouched photo of Hawkins to raise money for the Butterfly Foundation - a charity which helps people affected by eating disorders and negative body image.

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Bianca Dye did a fabulous thing posing nude in Madison.

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In 2022, Bianca Dye again posed nude, covered in gold body paint, to recreate a photo Gwyneth Paltrow had posted on Instagram to celebrate her 50th birthday.

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Bianca Dye decided to pose nude to boost body positivity for similarly-aged women who were disheartened after seeing Paltrow's photo, but said it wasn't to criticise or "fit shame" Paltrow's body.

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In 2014, Bianca Dye wrote an opinion piece for The Daily Telegraph which prompted some public debate.

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Bianca Dye explained that she had held a similar viewpoint to Coulter but had changed her mind and now wanted to become a parent, but was enduring a "long and hard road", going through numerous rounds of IVF treatment.

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In 2018, Bianca Dye acknowledged that she "copped it" when receiving criticism for writing the article, but was satisfied that she had still managed to get her message across.