Hurricanes go topless
The rugby lads are in Perth ahead of their game on Friday, and their winning streak in South Africa has put them on top of the Super Rugby table. Time for some R&R. They took to the Indian Ocean in a WestCoast jetboat, letting their hair down and taking their tops off for a wet 'n wild joyride. They're clinging on for dear life.
Max Key
Young love is still blooming for First Kid Max Key and his girlfriend Amelia Finlayson, who visited him in Sydney for the weekend. Key the Younger is doing a one-month intern programme at a private bank before heading to Auckland University. They took to the beach for some sun and ab-action.
Jan Logie and James Shaw
Green MPs Jan Logie and James Shaw went all out at the Auckland Pride Parade, literally embracing the theme 'Gods and Monsters'. Logie came as Uenuku, the Maori god of rainbows; while Shaw channelled Tane, god of the forrest. But they looked like The Incredible Hulk Who's Woken From a Slumber in a Cabbage Patch and The Crazy Cat Lady Who's Smoked Too Much Wacky Backy. Still, good on them. Big ups for getting into the spirit.
The Tory MPs
Also getting into the spirit, if that spirit was 'party poopers', were National MPs Nikki Kaye, Melissa Lee and Alfred Ngaro. It was the first time the National Party had participated in the LGBT Pride Parade. Hooray for their presence - finally! But, c'mon, where was the effort? Kaye reckons, next year, they will make a bigger splash with "dance platforms and stuff." But with her colleagues Lee and Ngaro voting against Marriage Equality, and many questioning their motives for actually attending, will that "stuff" be labelled hypocrisy too?
David Cunliffe
The former Labour leader took to the Pride Parade with awkward enthusiasm. He posed on the back of a motorcyle in Dad chinos with Labour luvvie Louisa Wall. "Life in the fast lane," he tagged this pic. That's how Cunners rolled. He looks about as home here as he did visiting his local chippy.
Tim Southee
Black Cap hero Tim Southee (a spitting image of a young Danny Morrison here) stopped for a snap on Saturday morning with a moping English fan - Rawdon Christie. It was a bittersweet English breakfast.
Chris Cairns
If he's worried about what former friend Brendon McCullum will testify at his perjury trial in London in October, he wasn't showing it. Chris Cairns took this happy group selfie with wife Mel, Dion Nash, Claire Kingan-Jones, Justine Troy and Gemma Ross, who posted the pic to Instagram on Saturday night but later deleted it. Cairnsy looks in high spirits, and that's great. The national cricket fever sweeping the country has hit him too.
The Grey Lynn Fruit Fly
The suburb known for Chardonnay, socialists and TV's most oleaginous man, has a new international celebrity in the 'hood and that exotic VIP comes with its own Twitter account. The Grey Lynn Fruit Fly has been evading MPI officers while tweeting its whereabouts. This includes taking a jaunt to the Northern Slopes with a personal pressie for Mike Hosking and his most prized possession. C'mon, are we sure John Campbell isn't behind the nom de plume?
Brodie Kane
It was more 50 Shades of Ecru for TVNZ star Brodie Kane at the Diner en Blanc in Britomart on Saturday. She posed against the sponsored wall with sometime-TV personality Colin Mathura-Jeffree, and both looked super chic, super styilsh.
C-Maj
However, as the night wore on, C-Maj ditched his scarf and his inhibitions to evidently channel Rico Tubbs de Miami Vice.
- nzherald.co.nz
