LORNA MASEKO
Lorna Maseko is a South African ballet dancer, choreographer, MC and television presenter best known as a presenter on the SABC3 lifestyle magazine programme Top Billing.
Credited as the first professional ballet dancer of colour in South Africa, Maseko grew up in Alexandra township. In 2007 she left ballet to pursue a television career, joining the SABC as a presenter and a producer on a show called Afro Showbiz News for SABC Africa.
She also co-hosted and produced a live current affairs, magazine breakfast show, The Weekender on SABC News International.
In 2016 she hosted the first season of the SABC3 reality competition series Top Chef South Africa.
In 2017 she hosted her own cooking and lifestyle reality series, The Hostess with Lorna Maseko, in which she creates bespoke culinary and experiential moments for ordinary South Africans, celebrities and captains of industry.