Leisha Hailey
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69 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 7 Jun
Leisha Hailey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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TED Talks Daily · Sunday Pick: In celebration of Pride Month | from Design Matters · 7 Jun 2026
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And it finally landed.
And I said, it's a movie called The Great Santini.
And that's when my dad just looked at me and he goes, that's your Aunt Blythe.
He just was like, what is your problem?
Yeah, to me, she was just my auntie B, who, you know, held my head when I was little from getting car sick and going on car rides and would bring me backstage on her plays and just be always so warm and loving.
She was just my aunt.
I never looked at her as an actor.
She was my dad's sister.
Kate Minnick and Leisha Haley.
And I thought, oh, this would be great. I'll get the wig to go with this jersey. I went to all the pet stores. I looked online. And I could not find a wig. And I thought, well, this is like a void that needs to be filled. And I decided I was going to be the one to do it. These days, pet wigs are everywhere.
I had a Farrah Fawcett, like long, blonde, flowing hair, feathered. I had like a bob, like can I see the manager kind of bob. What's your favorite wig that you made? I think for me it was the beehive because it was so – it was just like the ultimate wig. It was like fire red. It had little like sideburns that were curled that came down. And it got funnier as it got smaller.
Like it made a lot of sense on the pit bull, but when it went down to like a chihuahua or a Pomeranian, it was hilarious. I think that was a big part of this, is that it was so silly and so joyful. It was enjoyable to wake up and think about. And that's a really nice thing to follow. Leisha had had a really rough year before this.
One word. I had a tagline, it's a wig for your pet. Very descriptive. Well, you know. If you didn't get from the name that it's wigs for pets. Exactly. Because that was always the second, that was always the follow-up question when I said I'm making pet wigs. People would say, what is a pet wig? It's a wig for your pet.
It was almost so shocking to people that they had to have that follow-up question. So I made it clear.
It was beautiful. I just want to give it full props. It was a really great-looking booth. It was like a room you walked into. It was all white and clean. It had all the samples on a wall on shelves. And I remember I really wanted it to sort of feel like when you walk into the Apple store. I wanted it to be clean lines, white walls, very stark.
And then I wanted the pictures and the wigs to be the moment. So I wanted it to be like top of the line classic, like so high. I want it to feel high end. The reaction that people had when they rounded the corner, people lit up in a way I've never been a part of. Like, I've never seen people so happy. I had a line out the door.
Like, I'm not going to say they were climbing over each other to get to it, but it was sort of rabid. RuPaul himself even came by the booth.
It's suddenly all feeling very official. It felt, you know when Annie walks into, in the musical, when Daddy Warbucks, you know, she walks into the house and she's looking around, like, almost like that, like, am I going to like it here?
She starts as confidently as she feels. One of the first things out of my mouth was, I'm about to blow your mind. This, unsurprisingly, was not the first time this guy had heard this. But then Leisha goes in for the hard sell. I think I talked a lot about the void in the market, the missing piece.
the finishing touch to every costume out there, the billions of costumes that are sold every day, to pets, to owners all around the world, yet they're not completed. Because that was a real frustration of mine. It honestly was. It drove me crazy that you couldn't complete a costume.
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