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Rachel Smalley will be joining the team on TVNZ’s Q+A programme. The former TV3 current affairs host will be presenting the show alongside host Susan Wood, political editor Corin Dann, and deputy political editor Michael Parkin.

Philip Seymour Hoffman wasn’t a movie star in the conventional sense of the term. He wasn’t glamorous or given to the kind of serial-dating, motorcycle-riding, scene-making “lifestyle” that encourages fans to think they know all about you

Paul Henry wants to be the last thing you see before you go to sleep.

Scarlett Johansson has parted ways with the international charity Oxfam because of a dispute over her work for SodaStream, a company operating in a West Bank settlement that features the Hollywood star in an ad that will air during the Super Bowl.

Pete Seeger, the banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, college students and star-struck

OPINION: “He’s not the messiah, he’s just a very naughty boy.” That famous phrase from Monty Python’s Life of Brian seemed strangely appropriate as The Paul Henry Show rolled onto our television screens for the first time last night. For while New Zealand broadcasting’s enfant terrible (back after a less than successful sabbatical across the Tasman) jokingly promised a programme that would “define television as we know it”, what he delivered was a proper half-hour of current affairs programming laced with his trademark schoolboy humour and roguish riffing

Not for the first time, John Key wielded the barbecue tongs for the cameras, invoking an ancient political tradition at the Parachute Music Festival in Hamilton yesterday. Parachute chief executive Mark de Jong tweeted pictures of Key presiding over the sausages with the caption “The Prime Minister serving some love to the #parachute2014 crowds”

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The surest bet at today’s Golden Globes Hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. For the second year in a row, the duo will lead the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s annual glitzy Beverly Hills banquet, where stars gather for a boozy dress rehearsal to the Academy Awards

Television personality Nigel Latta is renowned for his politically incorrect TV series and criminal psychology but Antarctica is his first love. The 46-year-old Aucklander is due to fly to the icy continent on Tuesday on Antarctica New Zealand’s media programme to film science documentaries