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Stuff Entertainment? Supplied image for London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year. Less about the wall and more about the people whose lives it dominates, Michael Chiklis plays a former US Border Patrol agent who switches codes to smuggle people into America in Coyote (from Wednesday, February 10, TVNZ OnDemand). From highly acclaimed director Michelle Maclaren ( Breaking Bad, Westworld), this ten-part series is being dropped in one fell swoop for those partial to the odd binge. Meanwhile, there is a scene in London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year (which debuts on Three on Monday, February 15 at 9pm...

• Source:  1 NEWS The Royal Navy band has delivered a lively rendition of Stan Walker's Aotearoa as part of Waitangi Day commemorations. Your playlist will load after this ad The performance was part of the Royal NZ Navy Beat Retreat and Ceremonial Sunset. Source: 1 NEWS Yesterday's performance was held on the Upper Treaty Grounds as part of the Royal New Zealand Navy Beat Retreat and Ceremonial Sunset, presented to Governor-Gen...

   producers and was told he was too lazy to win. It was the pre-production auditions: contestants face two before the televised audition in front of the show's celebrity judges. Walker sailed through the first audition, but during his second he was confronted with racist stereotypes. "You know, you Polynesians think you can just walk in here and just sing, but you're all lazy," one man said. Watch: Stan Walker's Idol audition. Post continues below video. Video via Channel 10. Walker told him he'd sing Metallica, and the man asked him to do so. Walker did. "Well, what would happen if it cam...

MONIQUE FORD/STUFF Pop star Stan Walker is raring to get back to work and doesn’t want to be defined by his survivor status. It’s hard to write about Stan Walker without trotting out tired phrases like ‘triumph over adversity’ or ‘beating the odds’. As documented in his memoir Impossible: My Story, Walker’s at-times difficult childhood featured violence, poverty and, arguably, one of the worst forms of abuse. Born in Australia, he grew up in New Zealand and in his birth country. He changed schools more than most children and was suspended from every one of them.

In fact, it was Ardern who was the inspiration for the Southlander’s new business that uses recycled tyre tubes that are made into earrings and necklaces. In the midst of lockdown, Spencer-McDonald says she and her family became somewhat “Covid nerds” ensuring they were all together as a family to watch the afternoon briefings. On one of those occasions in May 2020, the Prime Minister was wearing long earrings and that was enough to provide the gem of an idea to launch her new business. In the space of six months she sourced the inner tubes from bike tyres, found suppliers of findin...