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It’s part of the network’s Summer-long Love Island partnership.

Simon Groves has been at O2 since 2018.

Groves, who has worked within Telefónica UK for more than 20 years, said in a statement: “Virgin Media O2 is the product of two iconic brands coming together and we launched with a clear mission to upgrade the UK.”

Named Redbank, that house was also the source of the name he gave to the vineyard property he and Deborah moved to permanently in 2007, three years after they first met. For Deborah it was something of a homecoming. She lived in Wairarapa in the 1970s and 80s when her children were young, and with her then partner, Alister Taylor, planted the first commercial grapevines in the Martinborough area, an experience she writes about in her 2015 book The Good Life on Te Muna Road. Since moving back...