Alex Casey dives into the second season of the least relatable show on television. What have you been up to over the past couple of weeks? Have you been fighting the council to protect the lives of stray cats, judging Miss Rotorua, selling wine barrels barrels across the country, luxuriating at Huka Lodge and necking … Read more
Alex Casey watches the Anne Batley-Burton spinoff show the country has been waiting for. In a year where Gilda Kirkpatrick is entering Dancing With the Stars NZ and Julia Sloane is somehow making a TV show about sex, it is only fitting that Anne Batley-Burton now has a show entirely devoted to… herself. Keeping Up … Read more
A hot new teaser clip from one of Auckland’s finest up and coming musicians. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, which means it’s about time Anne Batley-Burton from The Real Housewives of Auckland teased a new* Christmas song. Pairing up with long-time collaborator Vicky ‘Rock Chick’ Loach and Alan Jansson – the musical genius … Read more
From Beavis and Butt-head to Drew and Shannon, TeleTrader to the Champagne Lady, Calum Henderson looks back on the first 20 years of New Zealand’s fourth TV channel. In 1997, I spent a week of intermediate school metalwork classes carefully etching the TV4 logo onto a sheet of copper. That is how excited I was … Read more
Jane Yee, Duncan Greive, Alex Casey and Anne Bloody Batley Burton from The Real Housewives of Auckland gather around the oval table to talk about the latest happenings in New Zealand television and real life in New Zealand. This week we drain some delicious bottles of Champagne Jacquart with New Zealand’s greatest reality television star, Anne … Read more
The emergence of the mysterious and timeless Anne ‘The Champagne Lady’ Batley Burton as a natural born New Zealand celebrity has been the greatest treat of Real Housewives of Auckland. Alex Casey spent a few hours in her strange world. “I’d rather save all the animals and bugger the people to be honest.” The Champagne … Read more