The promoters of Taylor Swift's forthcoming Australian tour have confirmed the superstar isn't headed to New Zealand as part of her 1989 world tour.
No reasons for the apparent snub were given, so we decided to speculate ...
1. She's heard that the residents of Gore are particularly unhappy with the absence of country songs on the new record.
2. She's waiting to co-ordinate her visit with the next North Shore inorganic rubbish collection, which she heard is the hippest recycling event on the planet after its endorsement this week by her mate Lorde.
3. She doesn't want to risk coming face-to-face with that hairy hobbit man who used to own her New York apartment, in case she hears any stories about ghostly grey wizards haunting the loft.