Woman's Weekly New Zealand - June 20, 2022

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PLUS
Family, feudds & fun!
Paula
Bennett
FROM
SURVIVING
All Black legend
TO THRIVING
Keven Mealamu
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June20,2022
T
here are many inspirational stories for
you to enjoy in this week’s magazine.
Kicking things off is Paula Bennett,
who shares details about what life is like
for her post-politics. It hasn’t always been
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an easy transition – in fact, sometimes she
found it traumatic – but she is now doing
very well and is set to return to TV screens
as the host of TVNZ’s Give Us a Clue.
On the cover
match,Mariahgets 60 Garden We also take a deep dive into the Queen’s
6 PaulaBennett sued,andJadacalls Platinum Jubilee celebrations. I would
Timeout
‘I’mfinallyfreeto forpeace have loved to have been there to soak in
beme’ 22 JollyJennifer 62 Puzzles the atmosphere, but happily watched it on
12 Family,feuds&fun! ‘Beingagran’sjust 70 KevinMilne television. How wonderful it was to see
Allthesecretsfrom AbFab!’’ 72 MicheleA’Court the Queen on the royal balcony with her
thejubilee 24 Keith’srehabilitation 73 Horoscopes family. Although her mobility issues meant
18 AllBlacklegend ‘Inearlydestroyed 74 Jointheconversation she was unable to attend other events, she
KevenMealamu myfamily’ 76 JeremyCorbett was able to bookend the weekend with two
‘Ourbravenew 26 Acuppawith... 77 KerreWoodham appearances. There was so much involved,
challenge’ BroadcasterNoelle 78 Entertainment with the royal family out in force, including
32 Purpose&passion McCarthy 80 BookswithNicky the adorable Cambridge children. Little
‘WhyIstarteda 28 Catchingupwith Pellegrino Louis was very animated, with some saying
coffinclub’ theBeatles’kids he stole the show!
Celeb watch
52 Keepcalm! On the fi nal day, an English friend of
Weekly people
DrLibby’ssteps 2 Starnews mine who lives in Auckland hosted a tea
toserenity 30 Teacher’spets 82 Starweekly party in her backyard. Everyone was dressed
‘Blooddonorsare up, there was lots of food, games for the
Stories
savingmylife’ children, royal bunting and even singing.
10 Thewrap-up It was a great way to toast Her Majesty
Food
Demifindsherlove from afar. And if you want more about
36 Oodlesofnoodles royals, our books’ editor Nicky Pellegrino
40Speedystews has recommended some great reads. I’m
42 TeawiththeQueen currently working my way through The
47 Shopwindow Palace Papers – it’s a fascinating read.
Elsewhere, All Black great Keven
Style
Mealamu tells about his next big challenge.
48 Fashion He’s recently taken up boxing and he’ll be
50 Beauty hopping into the ring next month for Fight
For Life, which is raising money for Mike
Lifestyle
82 86 King’s I Am Hope charity.
54 Money And if you’re feeling rushed off your feet,
56 Home stretched and stressed, don’t
miss Dr Libby’s top tips to
help you wind down.
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Paula’s fresh sta
‘I FINALLY CAN BE
The former politician gives us a clue a b
new life and tells why she’ll never
W
hen Paula “People would always say
Bennett to me, ‘You’re so much more
left politics fun than I thought you would
in 2020, be.’ And I would say to them,
she knew ‘Well, a two-minute interview
that it was going to be tough on the tiles of Parliament
living life on the outside, but when I’m being asked if I’ve
now she says she has fi nally misspent $20 million isn’t
found her way back to the fun,” says Paula.
real Paula. “I still get asked a lot about
National
treasure Paula The 53-year-old former politics, don’t get me wrong,
with former Deputy Prime Minister has but it doesn’t traumatise me
leader Simon always been an outgoing now quite as much as it did
Bridges, who person, but politics shaped for the fi rst 12 months after
also sought her into someone she I left.”
a life away
confesses she didn’t feel One surprising thing that
from politics.
entirely comfortable being has helped Paula fi nd her way
for a long time. back to her real self is her
decision to front a game show
on television, something
you don’t see a lot of former
deputy prime ministers doing
in this country.
The second series of Give
Us a Clue is about to air on
TVNZ 1 and Paula admits
that the show went a long
way to helping her step out
‘I built a of her political persona.
“It took me about 12
lot of walls
months to detox from
around me Parliament and Give Us a
Clue was a big part of it.
because
The performance required
being a me to learn some new skills,
but just backing myself for
woman in
the role in the fi rst place
politics is took me way out of my
comfort zone. It helped that
hard’
I was in that mindset of just
embracing everything and
then seeing what happens.”
Paula says she really
expected someone at TVNZ
to turn her down.
“But I backed myself and
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rt
ME!’
bout her fabulous
be judged again
thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be kind
of cool that a woman in her
early 50s could do something
like that?’
“And then they said yes
really quickly and I thought,
‘Well, I’m on now. It’s all go!
They liked what they saw,
and so I was going to step
up and just be myself.”
Paula admits to feeling
somewhat overwhelmed when
she walked in on her fi rst day
and sat next to broadcasting
veteran Hilary Barry, who is
a team leader on the show.
“You’re sitting there,
thinking, ‘Oh, my God, these
people are legends and here
I am giving it a bit of a go
for the fi rst time.’ But Hilary
and Kerre Woodham [who is a
contestant on the show] were
so wonderful to me. They
didn’t instruct me or tell me
what to do. They said, ‘You’re
going to be great – don’t worry
about it.’”
Buoyed by this broadcasting
sisterhood, Paula found the
confi dence to launch herself
into hosting a TV show, and
when she made a mistake and
had to do another take, she
was told not to worry because
Paul Holmes sometimes had
to do retakes six times.
“And if I got stuck on a
word, which happens, and
every time you try to redo it
you just can’t get that word
out, Kerre came up and told
me to stop thinking about
the word I was stumbling on
because I was overthinking it.
And it worked!
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With Give Us a Clue team leaders
Hilary and Tom Sainsbury.
Above: Paula and daughter Ana in
2005 after her maiden speech in
Parliament, and at her 50th in 2019.
“These women were being they meant it, so that sort
so generous with their tips of thing really boosted my
and supporting me, and confi dence.”
coming from them, it meant Paula has since realised
a lot.” that the woman who was
But going into that studio turning up to that TV studio
meant Paula was also carrying was a very diff erent woman
her former political self with from the one who was in
her and wondering how she Parliament for 15 years
would manage transitioning because, back then, she had to
from what she calls “old life/ protect herself and her privacy
new life”. and build up resilience.
“We were a couple of “I built a lot of walls
days into fi lming and there around me because being a Give us a crowd! Last season’s competitors (from left)
Suzy Cato, Kerre, Hilary, Lily McManus, Frank Bunce, Tom,
was a guest who probably woman in politics is hard.
and Topp Twins characters Ken and Ken.
wasn’t a big fan of mine I was just reading in the
politically, which was cool,” newspaper this morning about
she says. “But after fi lming, the social media attacks on when I left, I had to work of Client Solutions.
I was getting changed and Nanaia [Mahuta, Minister out how to strip that back Like many former
as I walked in, everyone was of Foreign Aff airs and Local again and work out how to politicians, she has a lot of
having a glass of wine and Government]. Although you get other people to see me as knowledge of how things
I overheard her saying, ‘Oh, want to be your authentic someone who is no longer in work inside government
my God, Paula Bennett was self, you equally got very that kind of role.” departments and she can
fantastic and how insightful protective of yourself. Something that has really help those who haven’t.
to get someone new on the “I had to fi nd out how to helped is Paula’s work at Paula says when she got
show like that.’ get back to me because I had Bayley’s Realty Group’s the job, she knew she had
“I just thought that was so lost her and for a long time commercial division, where been institutionalised in
lovely and genuine, and not people were judging me on she works in an advisory Parliament, but within
said for any other reason than my politics, quite rightly. So, role as their National Director a couple of months she
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As we talk on Zoom, their independence for as long
Paula looks healthy, happy as possible.”
and gorgeous with her And the day after our
designer glasses and her interview, she and husband
trademark short grey hair. Alan Philps fl ew off to
Standing up to show off her Australia to spend a week
new blue shirt dress, she says, with Ana’s family.
“I work with a lot of younger “Alan asked what time
girls, so I have to be sure our fl ight was, and I said, ‘I
that what I wear is length- don’t care. Let’s get there at
appropriate for my 6am!’ I am that excited to be
age and for my going away.”
own comfort.” ‘I believed Paula credits
It is obvious that Alan with helping
it when
the old Paula has her move on
fully transitioned people told from Parliament,
into new Paula and although it wasn’t
me I would
she quite likes who all plain-sailing.
she’s become, but amount to “We had to
also very aware go through a
nothing’
that it took a while major adjustment
to get here. because I was
“When I was home again,”
very young, I was egotistical she admits. “When I was in
enough to believe that I politics, I was away so much,
could do anything and be we would have spent about
anything,” she explains. “But 30 percent of our time
then in my teenage years, together, then suddenly I’m
I got all those insecurities home and we’re arguing over
that you get at that age and I the remote!”
went completely off the rails. And when Covid hit, they
Thank goodness there wasn’t were spending 100 percent of
social media in those days their time with each other.
because I had these absolutely “It was a big adjustment
wild years!” and we gave ourselves a high-
Paula had her daughter Ana fi ve at Christmas,” she tells.
at the age of 17 and lost all “We never questioned the
her confi dence. love, but it’s kind of cool that
“I believed it when people we quite like each other too.”
told me I would amount to Paula and Alan have known
nothing. So, for about 15 each other since she was 19,
years, I was living day-to-day but rediscovered each other
and surviving was more on and married 10 years ago.
the cards than thriving.” Alan also gives Paula
But when Paula found her advice on her TV career,
voice, she worked hard to which she appreciates.
get to the place she is today. “I was asked to do
She says Ana is extremely something for TV which I
proud of her, as Paula is of was quite keen on and then
her daughter. he pointed out that it had a
Paula is at the age where voting component. He said
realised that she’d be talking “Opinion writers are she has elderly parents she I had been judged for so long
to some incredibly bright either really emotive, writing supports, and a daughter and when I was in politics, did I
people and she knew how about how they had sex last three grandchildren aged 15, really want to open myself up
to fi x their problems. night and this is how it went, 10 and eight who she adores. to that again? And he was so
“I would tell them how to or they are so statistical that “I’m at a really fortunate right about that.
do it, then think, ‘Did I just I read four sentences and give time in my life where I can “There’s a new rule now: I
make that look too easy?’” up. So, I’m trying to be in the give my parents some time,” can do TV if I want, but I will
she laughs. middle where there is emotion she shares. “I couldn’t do that never be judged again.”
Paula has also started and there is a real person when I was in politics, so I Wendyl Nissen
writing a weekly column in it. However, most of the feel really pleased that I can Watch Give Us a Clue
for the NZ Herald, which time it’s about issues that are help them manage with health Wednesdays at 7.30pm
she loves. important to everyone.” issues and help them keep on TVNZ 1.
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t was love-all at the have been romancing since ex-husband Bruce Willis, includes Bruce’s second
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