Spare Room Be our guest…

NZ On Screen has procured a gem of a clip from an early version of Close Up (1987) featuring a baby-faced 25-year-old ’senior forex trader’ with Deidre Barlow glasses who plays squash in teeny tiny stubbies. His name? John Key…

Calling bullshit on this Cancer scare: Spotted this at the supermarket…”Oh, no! Miss Universe 1983 has Cancer? How awful!” But a quick scan of the actual story from the NZ Woman’s Weekly reveals that the former Dancing with the Star winner Lorraine Downes hasn’t got the big C, but that she’s doing some charity work with children with cancer and building her public profile. Talk about crying wolf!…

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Tasteful gift: Trade Me auction for this Bronze Pole Dancer. “Has Gold sequins on panty area.” (Hat tip: Jeremy Parkinson)

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Good ol’ MySky: the Police Association’s Greg O’Connor accidentally flips the bird at Closeup’s Mark Sainsbury

Celebrity news: Warner Brothers is suing a Swiss condom maker for a brand of sexual sheathing called Harry Popper. The condom illustration on the packaging wears Harry Potter’s trademark round glasses along with brandishing a wand and a devilish look. Who would buy a condom with the name ‘popper’ anyway?…

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Cameron Brewer and Colin Craig

Opinion: On Monday night, just 48 tweets in, mayoral candidate Colin Craig hastily locked his Twitter account.

It can’t have been that I somewhat unkindly pointed out the banality of one of his latest tweet: “There are a lot of individuals concerned about issues close to their communities and families.” After all, he had a great excuse: “Hi Ana – re earlier tweet, press secretary still feeling the effects of an early morning drive from Rotorua to Akl.” He has since deleted the comment and his response to me….

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