“I WAS MOTHERED BY AN ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS WOMAN… I’M ONE OF FIVE GIRLS, AND WE ADORED OUR MOTHER. SHE WAS A NURSE AND A REAL EMPATH.”
Benee’s personal assistant has her feet up on my couch and is being very nice about the aromatic presence of the resident terrier.
Tania Anderson is here to talk about life, love, dogs and Benee, the 22-year-old superstar she works with. An entertainment-industry native who has worked as a voice-over artist, actor, singer, producer, tour manager and driver, Tania is ideally qualified to guide a young pop star through the showbiz maelstrom. She also gave birth to Benee, so there’s that.
This is a proper job, too, not a tongue-in-cheek descriptor to justify Mum being on the tour bus. Benee, known to her PA as Stella/Darling/Babe, issued an ultimatum that if Tania didn’t agree to be paid for the work she was doing, she’d get someone else to do it. The timing was good because when the borders closed as a result of the Covid pandemic, Tania’s language-teaching work dried up, so, drawing on decades of experience, she stepped into the role of a lifetime. Both hers and Stella’s.
There’s no mother-daughter pathology here. Tania throws her hands in the air at
