Bianca Dye

Dye was born in Melbourne in 1973, the daughter of notable Australian performer Issi Dye (born Israel Dyzenhaus) and model Anne Dye.[1][3] Issi Dye has enjoyed considerable success in the Australian entertainment industry as a singer and television personality.[6][7][8]

During World War II, Dye's paternal grandmother, Edith Wrobel, was interned at the Auschwitz concentration camp.[1] 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.[1] Israel Dyzenhaus changed his name by deed poll in 1969 in favour of the "showbiz name", Issi Dye.[1]

When Dye's parents split when she was two years old, her father was awarded primary custody.[1]

In Melbourne, Dye attended Mount Scopus Memorial College but at the age of 12, Dye relocated to Queensland with her father and step-mother where they settled on an acreage at Nerang, where Dye began attending Nerang State High School.[1] At the age of 15, Dye ran away from home and caught the bus to Melbourne to be with her mother, after which Dye enrolled at Brighton Secondary College.[1] She graduated from Brighton in 1991 as dux.[1]

After travelling overseas, Dye enrolled at RMIT University but later deferred when an opportunity came up to be a ringmaster for the Moscow Circus for eight months, getting the job after a successful audition at Carrara on the Gold Coast.[1]

Prior to commencing her radio career, Dye was a Marilyn Monroe impersonator at Grundy's Entertainment Centre in Surfers Paradise and a shopping centre spruiker at the Robina Town Centre.[1]

Dye's radio career began as a promotions manager and night time announcer at a radio station on Queensland's Fraser Coast in 1996, before moving to 101.3 Sea FM in Gosford on the New South Wales Central Coast where she co-hosted the station's breakfast show.[9][10]

Her profile rose when she began hosting a nationally networked evening show for the RG Capital Radio Network, originating from 92.5 Gold FM on the Gold Coast, called The Nitemix Across Australia with Bianca Dye in the late 1990s.[4]

In 2001, 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.[3][11] Originally a morning announcer at Nova, Dye moved to the station's afternoon drive program with Tim Blackwell in January 2006.[12]

Dye returned to the Gold Coast in mid-2008 for a brief period co-hosting the Hot Tomato breakfast show.[13]

In 2009, Dye relocated to the New South Wales city of Wollongong in the Illawarra to take up a job as a breakfast presenter at i98FM.[14] She remained at i98FM until June 2015 when she left to focus on her attempts at conceiving a child with IVF treatment.[5]

Dye returned to the Gold Coast again in December 2015 to co-host 92.5 Gold FM's breakfast program over the Christmas/New Year period.[4] This led to being appointed as the station's afternoon drive announcer in early 2016.[4]

In early 2017, 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.[15][16] After three years, Bailey was lured back to the station and Dye was let go from 97.3FM in late 2019.[17]

Dye again returned to the Gold Coast in July 2020 where she commenced co-hosting the breakfast program on 90.9 Sea FM with Ben Hannant and Dan Anstey.[18] The show was renamed Bianca, Ben & Lakey in 2022 after Anstey left the program to join Triple M Brisbane's breakfast program and was replaced by Danny Lakey.[19]

In the early 2000s, Dye hosted Access All Areas on Arena until she left the role in June 2004.[20]

While hosting the breakfast show on Wollongong's i98 in 2010, Dye co-hosted a regional entertainment show on WIN Television called Daily with Susie and Bianca with Susie Elelman.[21]

Throughout her career, Dye has appeared on numerous national television programs as a commentator, including Today, Nine News Now, Sunrise, The Morning Show, A Current Affair and 20 to 1.[9][22]

Dye has guest hosted Studio 10 and was as a panelist on Beauty and the Beast.[2] She has also been a contestant on Thank God You're Here, Ready Steady Cook, Celebrity Dog School, Celebrity Singing Bee and Australia's Brainiest.[23][24][25][26] Dye was also an entertainment reporter for Mornings with Kerri-Anne.[2]

Dye openly and regularly shares updates pertaining to issues surrounding her fertility and her desire to become a parent which has included undergoing IVF treatment.[9][34][35][1][36][37]

In 2017, Dye alleged that a former boyfriend physically assaulted her after she had broken up with him when she was aged in her early 20's.[38] Speaking about the issue of domestic violence, Dye told her on-air colleagues and listeners: "I was in a situation where I was terrified and I was crying in the kitchen with a knife in my hand because he punched me twice, he threw my Jack Russell up against the wall... he cracked a rib and he choked me".[39]

At the age of 29, Dye was diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder.[40][41]

In 2018, Dye accused the radio industry of being rife with a sexist and sleazy culture where it was common for men to make inappropriate and unwanted advances towards female colleagues.[42]

In 2022, she was in a relationship with former rugby league player Justin Morgan.[43]

Dye has had an ongoing feud with Ajay Rochester.[44] After Rochester appeared on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2019, she accused Dye of having leaked stories about her to the media in the past.[45] Dye denied this.[45] Rochester also told Dye during a radio interview that she told the story of how she and Dye had fallen out "more than once" while on I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here but the footage was never aired.[44]