The wedding of the new millennium, or at least early 2003, is set to go next month when broadcaster Paul Holmes ties the knot with partner Deborah Hamilton.
The glittering affair will be at their Mana Lodge rural hideaway, near Hastings.
Holmes, whose marriage to first wife Hine Elder ended in
1997, managed to be cheerfully silent about the nuptials yesterday.
On cue at the merest mention of wedding, he jumped in: "No comment on that me old mate."
He was similarly coy when asked whether the New Zealand edition of the Australian Women's Weekly, which announced the couple's engagement in April, had tied up exclusive rights.
Not wanting to bang on about issues of little substance, we left it at that.
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Back to the Enz
Paul Holmes will host his Christmas special on Tuesday night with a live reunion of Split Enz.
It will be 30 years since Split Enz' debut on December 10, 1972.
The Tamaki Yacht Club in Kohimarama may seem an unlikely venue for the reunion, but three decades ago Tim Finn and Phil Judd flatted down the road in a Mission Bay house owned by Tim's father Dick, and then in the creaking Malmsbury Villa on Kohimarama Rd where many of their early songs were created.
In a spooky twist of creative fate, the million-dollar-plus Kohimarama property is now occupied by Team New Zealand's Tom Schnackenberg, designer of not-so-leaky boats.
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Sorry, old chap
The New Zealand captain of the Cambridge University rugby team made a dreadful blue when naming the Light Blues team to face arch-rivals Oxford this week.
By tradition, Duncan Blaikie, studying law at Cambridge, is required to recite the numbers, names and colleges of his team from memory. Unfortunately he left out his speedy left winger, a gaffe that qualifies him for some as-yet-unknown but awful punishment.
Blaikie will be hoping for better luck in front of 43,000 at Twickenham where he is up against an Oxford team skippered by another New Zealander, Fraser Gemmell.
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Gone to the dogs
The barking of talkback radio has been given new status with a Broadcasting Standards Authority decision over the use of the word "mongrel".
A listener complained that a caller to Leighton Smith's radio show was offensive and racist by using the word to refer to people of mixed marriage.
The authority found it was used in a "robust, if often ill-informed talkback environment" and did not breach the radio code.
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The wedding of the new millennium, or at least early 2003, is set to go next month when broadcaster Paul Holmes ties the knot with partner Deborah Hamilton.
The glittering affair will be at their Mana Lodge rural hideaway, near Hastings.
Holmes, whose marriage to first wife Hine Elder ended in
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