Viewers of YTV have been getting to know Melony Manikavasagar, who has recently joined “The Zone”. The native of Brampton, Ont.
is working toward her Bachelor of Arts in Media Production at Toronto Metropolitan University (previously known as Ryerson), which is where she first caught wind of the opportunity that brought her to YTV. “At my university, they put out a casting call, and I was like, to my mom, ‘Do you think I should audition?’ She was like, ‘Obviously!'” Manikavasagar tells ET Canada.
After auditioning and, eventually, being put through “the whole process,” she was ultimately chosen as new on-air personality on “The Zone”, joining current hosts Alex and Spencer. “I was very shocked,” she admits. “Even after every part of the audition process, I thought I wouldn’t make it to the next [round], but every time it happened I thought it was too good to be true.
So when they got on the call to tell me, I kind of had to sit there for awhile before I really processed that, oh, this is real.
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