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Otago Daily Times
13-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
Miss Tourism International title winner ‘stoked'
Emily Faulkner has no interest in spouting cliches about world peace. Instead, the 2025 Miss New Zealand pageant Miss Tourism International title winner wants to use her new-found platform to make major changes a little closer to home. The 21-year-old, formerly of Mosgiel, was one of five title winners at this year's pageant in Auckland over the weekend, and each will now represent New Zealand at varying world pageants overseas. "Honestly, I'm stoked. When they announced the top five, I was like, 'oh my God, I get to go overseas and represent our country'. "It's such an honour." Britney Pringle was crowned Miss New Zealand 2025 and will represent the country at the Miss International, in Tokyo, this November. Sophie Pardington won the Miss Supranational title, Kelsey Turner won the Miss Intercontinental title and Toma Mirchevska won the Tourism Queen of the Year title. Miss Faulkner will compete in the Miss Tourism International pageant in China, in November. But first, she has a major hurdle to clear. She is in her final year of nurse training at the University of Auckland, and her nursing state exam is on November 18. "I'm meant to be in China on November 16, for the start of the pageant. "I'm not sure yet how I'm going to make that work." It appeared she would have to exercise her diplomatic negotiation skills, to see if there was a way she could do both. At this stage, she was not thinking too deeply about her chances in the competition, she said. "I tend to go into it not thinking of winning. "I like to go into it mainly to enjoy the experience and embrace everyone's cultures. "It's just amazing to see the different lifestyles and everything — it's quite a learning experience. "It does make you appreciate the world a lot more. "So if by chance I did win, I'd be like, 'oh my God, what's actually happening?"' She said a lot of people thought pageants were just about the glitz, glamour and beauty of women, but it was so much more than that. "That's created such a big stereotype in pageantry about if you're beautiful, you win or that's all it is. "But realistically, pageantry is actually so much about the mission that you strive for. "It's focused on what we're striving for, what kind of change we want to make. "So it takes a lot of actual intelligence to be able to do what these girls do." Miss Faulkner said she hoped to break some of New Zealand's societal barriers, like judging, bullying — anything online, especially. "We should be able to embrace each other's differences, not view them as negative, because I see it all the time in healthcare especially — how that impacts mental health. "I really just hope to advocate for everyone in general, because we were made to be the way we are for a reason. And that shouldn't be a fault. "We shouldn't have to change to be the society's level of perfect. "You are already perfect in yourself, but we just have to let the world see that. "I'm tired of hearing people saying they want to change it."
NZ Herald
01-07-2025
- Sport
- NZ Herald
On The Up: Far North beauty queen aims for Miss NZ crown and mental health change
Jade Clifford is no stranger to hard work. The 28-year-old nursing student from Russell is about to graduate at the same time she chases a national crown. Clifford will take to the stage at the Miss New Zealand final in the days before her July 16 graduation. She said
Newsroom
23-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsroom
Central Otago, pretentiously
And so to the best and most striking illustrated coffee table book of the year so far by a long stretch. Central Otago Couture – hardback, 330 pages, high production values as you would expect from Te Papa Press – is an epic fashion assignment, with photographer Derek Henderson sent into the great wide open of Central Otago to shoot models wearing 1970s and 80s frocks made by New Zealand designers and collected by Eden Hore, a high country sheep and beef farmer who amassed 270 garments and kept them in a converted tractor shed. The book is at once totally pretentious and very beautiful, a dazzlingly original idea cleverly executed and a cliché of how city folk see Central – no one in it, no history, no ecological tension, just nice scenery. Either which way, it looks amazing. Kevin Berkahn day dress, 1973. John Kaldor synthetic sheer with acetate lining, EH20. Photographed at Bannockburn, 2019. Model: Hannah Clarke Eden Hore's story is told simply and effectively in the text, by Jane Malthus and Claire Regnault. He was born in Naseby in 1919. He went to war in Egypt. 'On leave in Cairo, Eden visited the Cairo Museum of Hygiene, which he said put him off sex completely.' Back home, he bought an 8100-hectare farm, ran 9000 sheep, and introduced beef cattle in the 1970s. His marriage lasted 10 years. He employed a housekeeper, who became his partner; and he started buying her dresses. 'It was always a new frock every time we went out,' she remembered. He drove Daimlers, kept peacocks, grew beds of massed roses; life further opened up when he got involved with the Miss New Zealand beauty pageants, and began collecting garments. Hore was also a drunk. 'Once he was found under a bridge.' He tried drying out at Hanmer. He opened a showroom for his garments as a visitor attraction and it was a smash hit in the 1970s and 80s but 'started to be seen as a bit of a joke' by the 90s. 'Continuing to smoke until his death, Eden spent his last three months in the Chalet Home for the Aged in Ranfurly and died in Ranfurly in 1997.' Jo and David Dunlap, Only a Territorian Would Drape a Goanna, late 1970s. Hand-painted leather, EH176. Photographed at Lake Dunstan, 2024. Model: Alannah Kwant The book notes that his last TV interview was in 1996, with Jude Dobson, for her programme Town & Country, in 1996: 'For much of the interview he sits in a rattan peacock chair … Dobson, herself a former model and beauty queen, steps joyfully out onto the sunny lawn in an array of garments.' I texted Jude, my best friend in publishing, and asked her what she remembered. She replied, 'It was such a treat! There in the middle of seemingly nowhere was this South Island farmer with an extraordinary collection of amazing clothes in all these sheds – some weird, some wonderful, all out of the ordinary! He chose a handful for me to try on. In those days they slipped on easily 🤪 and I'd look for the nod of approval that he thought it looked as it should when I stepped out of the changing room. I found him remarkable. His fascination and knowledge of fabric and design seemed incongruous with his 'day job'. Worth the trek to meet him!' Rosalie Gwilliam, Web of Intrigue, 1977. Wool jersey, Lurex thread and beads, EH207. Photographed at Mitchell's Cottage, Fruitlands, 2024. Model: Ngahuia Williams No genre of photography is as pompous as fashion photography, although architectural photography runs it a close second. There are some LOL shoots in Central Otago Couture, none funnier than the image above, its faux gothic vibe suggesting a model on her way to a hanging –possibly her own. Vinka Lucas (Maree de Maru) halter neck dress and cape, early 1970s. Printed rayon velvet and ostrich feathers, EH66. Photographed at Blue Lake, St Bathans, 2019. Model: Hannah Clarke There are two other contenders for best coffee table book of the year. Tony Fomison: Life of the Artist by Mark Forman is a brilliant work of scholarship but the Fomison estate refused permission for the artist's paintings to be reproduced, which rather compromises the book; and Fire & Ice: Secrets, histories, treasures and mysteries of Tongariro National Park by Hazel Phillips is first-rate natural history writing, with lots of great archival photos, but you can have too much of a Turnbull Library experience – all those dusty old black and whites with dark borders. In Central Otago Couture, neither author writes artful prose, but Derek Henderson's photos sing, in a stunning display of double-page spreads and single-page portrait. The light is gorgeous. The clothes are pop art. You turn the pages in a trance, you allow colour and texture to work their magic, and you stand in awe of the collection of a farmer who drank and smoke like 40 bastards but had that rare thing, that unteachable quality: taste. Central Otago Couture: The Eden Hore Collection, text by Jane Malthus and Claire Regnault, with photographs by Derek Henderson (Te Papa Press, $70) is available in bookstores nationwide.
Scottish Sun
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Soldier Soldier star dies aged 61 as devastated colleagues pay tribute to ‘truest actor & good friend'
'LOVE YOU ALWAYS' Soldier Soldier star dies aged 61 as devastated colleagues pay tribute to 'truest actor & good friend' Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) SOLDIER, Soldier star Marise Wipani has died aged 61. The actress - who also appeared in Xena: Warrior Princess and was a former Miss New Zealand - passed away on her birthday on Friday (June 6). Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up A post on her Facebook page said: "Marise passed peacefully today on her 61st birthday surrounded by family and friends. "She just wanted to say....I have shuffled off this mortal coil. Good byyye, good luuuck, good God!!! Quote from Driving Miss Daisy." A cause of death was not revealed.
The Irish Sun
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Soldier Soldier star dies aged 61 as devastated colleagues pay tribute to ‘truest actor & good friend'
SOLDIER Soldier star Marise Wipani has died suddenly aged 61. The actress - who also appeared in Xena: Warrior Princess and Shortland Street, and was a former Miss New Zealand - passed away on her birthday on Friday (June 6). Advertisement A post on her Facebook page said: "Marise passed peacefully today on her 61st birthday surrounded by family and friends. "She just wanted to say....I have shuffled off this mortal coil. Good byyye, good luuuck, good God!!! Quote from Driving Miss Daisy." A cause of death was not revealed. Wipani played Ellie in season three of ITV drama Soldier, Soldier, which broadcast in 1993. Advertisement At its peak, the show saw an average viewership of 16.1 million, which coincided with Wipani's time in the cast. The programme - created by Lucy Gannon - followed the daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'A' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers, and also featured Robson Green and Jerome Flynn, running from 1991 to 1997. Co-star Jay Laga'aia, who played Sgt. Bob Gilligan, was among those to pay tribute to Wipani, writing: "I saw this and quickly checked that it wasn't some kind of sick joke. "Sister I am devastated to hear this news. You are so young and I will miss you. We have worked together over the years and I was always so pleased to have you on set. Travel well my sister, love you always." Advertisement Most read in News TV 1 Marise Wipani played Ellie on ITV drama Soldier, Soldier
