Meet Australia’s newest and youngest Chaser
There is a new Chaser on the block and she is not here to play nicely.
Enter Mara Lejins, only 27, and Australia’s youngest Chaser on popular TV show The Chase.
One look and you’d actually think she’s Elle Woods from Legally Blonde thanks to her blonde hair and pink outfit.
But don’t underestimate the innocent look as she has been dubbed The Smiling Assassin.
“I only smile when I’m trying to take down contestants - that’s why I’m always smiling,” she says with a grin.
The Smiling Assassin joins the top guns on the show - Goliath, The Governess, The Beast, The Shark, The Super Nerd and The Tiger Mum - who have long been putting contestants in their place in the competition.
Host Larry Emdur told The Morning Show that people are fooled by Mara’s looks and when she attacks it’s “impressive”.
“She’s so disarming,” he said.
“She comes out, ‘oh doesn’t she look lovely’, and then BANG, she is across everything.”
In a funny twist of events, Mara appeared in the show’s spinoff series Beat The Chasers in 2020 where she won a huge $58,000.
Before that, she appeared as a contestant on The Chase in 2017 where she earned a whopping $20,000 for her team.
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