Category: People

Freya Desmarais is comedian from Tauranga who will be performing her show Live Orgy as part of the Auckland Pride Festival. Freya suffers from bipolar, but chooses to express her feelings and frustrations through confronting queer comedy. What makes you proud? I’m proud to be me, I quite like me. I crack myself up. That […]

Our January Adonis Louis grew up in Tonga and moved to NZ back in 2010. Now 22, Louis is a studying Computer Science at AUT and hopes to get into software design, but has a passion for showing the world – especially Tonga what he’s got! Louis says his passion for fitness modelling stems from […]

From Neighbours to Sex and the City to acclaimed ‘gay’ show Looking, out actor Murray Bartlett has done it all. With Looking returning to our screens this month, Oliver Hall pinned Bartlett down to talk about representing gays, brunch with Sarah Jessica Parker and hugging Hugh Jackman. Murray Bartlett still displays that persona of wide-eyed […]

International flight attendant and all round babe Belinda Dunne is tougher than she looks! Belinda has been promoting fight nights for 15 years now. She got into the fight game to ensure that women got the same opportunities to pursue professional fight careers as their male counterparts. At the end of November Belinda staged Princesses […]

Kid Rock has come out as, well, a bit of an a-hole. Recently interviewed by The Guardian, Kid Rock has made some rather iffy statements about a whole bunch of things. “I played Barack Obama’sinaugeration even though I didn’t vote for him,” he said. “I didn’t agree with his policies, but there was a sense […]

“I want to be the first trans woman to win an Academy Award,” says Hari Nef – actor, model, performance artist, writer, general renaissance star. After walking her first show for Hood By Air at New York Fashion Week in 2014, Hari Nef has been catapaulted into the limelight. But despite that, Nef says it […]

How did you get into this whole theatre lark? By accident really. I was half way through my Bachelor of Communications and a group of us went to see Creditors by August Strindberg. Long story short – I fell in love with everything about it and I decided I needed to leave uni immediately and […]

Actor, Singer and Musical Director Paul Barrett picked up the gong Artistic Achievement at this year’s national Attitude Awards, which celebrate kiwis living with a disability. Despite suffering from Tourettes syndrome from a young age, Paul has become one of NZ’s most in demand actors and musical directors, lending his hand to over 150 professional productions. He […]