"What upset me was the fact that they said he had acting training, that he just put on a show and just started crying when it was needed." Animal rights advocacy On social media, Allan describes herself as an "animal rights activist." Her recent journalism reflects a concern for animal welfare issues. In November 2013, she focused attention on a controversial photograph of US TV personality and trophy hunter Melissa Bachman posing with a dead lion in South Africa. Allan was vocal about the photograph on social media and published an open letter to Bachman. Allan's piece went viral, garnering over 1 million page views. Later that month, the South African media reported on Allan's criticism of Victor Matfield and Fourie du Preez after the pair published a photo of a zebra they had hunted. Allan's involvement in animal rights advocacy and journalism began in 1990s when she was working as a Cape Talk presenter and Mweb columnist. On air she championed the cause of the Lipizzan when a local dressage school faced closure, then educated listeners on the devastating horrors committed against horses as part of gang initiation practices in the Western Cape. She has also discussed the work of the Cape Horse Protection Society and invited representatives onto her show. She also worked for the Domestic Animal Rescue Group. In Allan's memoir, Jani Confidential, she provides metaphors for the way we treat animals. She highlights the brutality of Marlin fishing, having reported on Marlin fishing events for the Sunday Times. She is also critical of bullfighting, recounting her experience of being invited by an ex-boyfriend to the San Fermin running of the bulls festival in Pamplona. Personal life In 1973, Allan was a student at the University of the Witwatersrand when she met her first husband, finance magnate and art collector Gordon Schachat. They married in Mauritius in 1982 and shared a home in Linksfield Ridge, an upscale Jewish area in Johannesburg's northern suburbs. Their two-year marriage ended in divorce in 1984. Allan attributed her burgeoning career as a factor: "I was obsessed with my column. I was intent on becoming the best journalist in the country." They remained friends and Schachat supported Allan's testimony in the 1992 libel suit she brought against Channel 4 in London. Allan told a London court that eight years after their marriage breakup, Schachat was her closest friend and described their union