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Earlier today I told you RIGHT HERE that Animal Planet's big cat guy Dave Salmoni is in South Africa for a visit and now I can be first with the news that he's spend the day at the wonderful Glen Afric game reserve playing with big and small elephants.
Animal Planet (DStv 264) on which Dave Salmoni shows currently run (with another one, Into the Pride, starting next month) is celebrating ''Animal Heroes Season'' in September. I'm told that's part of the reason for Dave Salmoni being in South Africa (although he also has a TV production company here). I can tell you that Dave Salmoni will be staying until Friday after he jetted in on Sunday - without any bags. The big guy already did a photo shoot yesterday where his clothes were too small but he just laughed it off. ''The clothes would have fit me if I was 12,'' Dave Salmoni said.
Insider sources at the Glen Afric Country Lodge who saw the hunky animal handler today at the uber posh game reserve in Broederstroom, tells me that he was very friendly to everyone and seemed jovial and relaxed despite his jetsetting diary. ''Dave Salmoni went on an elephant walk with two baby elephants and their mother. The elephants really dirtied Dave up but it was all in good fun and he didn't seem to mind the bit of rough housing.''
Dave Salmoni can currently be seen in Into the Lion's Den on Mondays on Animal Planet (DStv 264) at 20:05. Into the Pride about a lion rehabilitation project and also starring Dave Salmoni starts on Animal Planet on Monday, October 11 at 20:05.
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