The broadcaster revealed his wife and daughters 'can't swim or lie by the pool unless they're naked' at his Palm Springs home. Photo / Norrie Montgomery
The broadcaster revealed his wife and daughters 'can't swim or lie by the pool unless they're naked' at his Palm Springs home. Photo / Norrie Montgomery
Paul Henry's had a big year - he's written his third book, watched his daughter Bella get married, and just a week later married his fiancee Diane Foreman.
So when the first New Zealand lockdown ended in May, Henry headed back to his home in Palm Springs to finish offhis book I'm in a United State".
His Palm Springs home - where the book begins and ends - is part of a nudist community where Henry feels most at home, he tells this week's New Zealand's Woman's Weekly.
However, Henry admits it's "not his wife's thing", but says when she or his daughters come over they are welcome to keep their clothes on.
"There's no need for them to be naked. The only rule is they can't swim or lie by the pool unless they're naked," Henry told the Woman's Weekly, adding that he's not trying to convert anyone; he just wants them to enjoy his home.
"The first time I took [daughter] Lucy, she was literally there 10 minutes before she was naked in the pool drinking mimosas with my naked neighbours.
However his daughter Bella "thinks we're deviant freaks" and for third daughter Sophie "it's just not for her".
In August it was revealed the broadcaster was spending two weeks in quarantine at the Sudima Hotel by Auckland Airport.
His daughter Bella shared a snap of the TV presenter to her Instagram stories, showing him wearing a mask and holding the bars of a fence around the managed isolation facility.
"Regretting your Palm Springs trip now are we Paul?" Bella wrote below the photo.
