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Unlikely 1990s TV icon, would-be jazz singer and tiger-slippers aficionado Chloe of Wainuiomata has made a less celebrated appearance in the spotlight - charged with shoplifting pet-care products from a Napier supermarket.
The appearance was before a registrar in Napier District Court today, under her married name, Chloe Jane Perovic.
Due to turn 48 next month (May) and now resident on Napier's Marine Parade, she was charged with stealing pet care items worth $23.62 from Pak `N Save, Napier, last Thursday, and was granted diversion, a police scheme which enables offenders to acknowledge guilt and avoid conviction.
The case was adjourned to June 4, a date she will have to keep only if she has not met the conditions of her agreement with the police.
In 1994, as Chloe Reeves, she became an overnight symbol of a suburban woman's lifestyle when she featured in a Heartland television documentary about Wainuiomata, where she lived at the time.
While tiger slippers became her trademark, she had a particular affinity with pets, one of which, a dog named Molly May Matilda, gave her away at her wedding.
Last year she was a feature of another TV series, Whatever Happened To...?, in which viewers heard she was living at the time on Waiheke Island with her husband, and eight cats, but was hoping to move to Hawke's Bay.
- NZPA
