KnoxNews.com – By Wayne Bledsoe
Former radio personality launches new life as woman, career in stand-up comedy
Sitting with Gishelle Gish, there?s a sense of what is and what has been.
In the dining room of her West Knoxville home, Gish is surrounded by gold records, signed plaques and posters from Rod Stewart, Barbra Streisand and other music stars, all thanking her for her help with their careers and the success of certain records.
Yet all of the thanks are for ?Brother Clay? Gish.
Brother Clay Gish was an athlete, a Vietnam veteran, a father who married four times and a star in the radio world. He was known in Atlanta, Houston, Miami and Knoxville as a popular radio personality, a programmer who could help take a station to the top and could always tell a future hit.
Clay Gish began living as Gishelle Diva Gish in January and has since undergone breast augmentation surgery and a legal name change. She hopes to have sex-reassignment surgery in the near future.