Local Celeb Spotlight: Leah McLean

If you like feeling as though you're in pre-school when you tune into the local evening news, than Leah McLean will no doubt make your mouth water for some non-toxic paste at nap time.

A current anchor at the 5 Eyewitness News desk who has been a part of the KSTP station for over 10 years, McLean is a "unique" kind of broadcaster... She quite literally secretes "Minnesota nice" from every pore. Her inordinate perkiness doesn't just come in the form of verbal pandering - the likes of which will surly be found on any and every local media syndicate, nationwide - but in her facial visage, as well. Her tendency to over-enunciate and crinkle her face to the clout of each story can only make a viewer of even reasonable intelligence feel as though they are being talked down to as if they were a special needs child. This type of lilt is more suited for reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar to a classroom of 6-year olds, which is where Leah McLean belongs.

-Flotsam