Pop star or rugby star Both are careers that most people dream of, but for Christchurch’s Rameka Uitime-Paraki it became a very real choice. The 20-year-old recently dropped out of hit boy-band Moorhouse to pursue his rugby career, just as the band’s fame was taking off on The X Factor.
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Tears flow at X Factor
What have we learned during this night of tears, broken dreams and compliment sandwiches Domenic Bowden has discovered the secret of teleportation. Wherever we are, Rorotonga, Sydney, Queenstown or the magical place of Mahurangi: He’s already there.
Compelling viewing to the stomach-punching final scenes
UKTV’s Top of the Lake managed to end with both a bang and a whimper – the whimper being from viewers who had finally managed to persuade themselves that Al the policeman (David Wenham) was a good guy after all. It turned out that he was unimaginably worse than the series’ ostensible villains, the brutal alcoholic drug lord and suspected child-rapist and his pitbull sons
Billy Ray weighs in on Miley’s nuptials
Billy Ray Cyrus wants his daughter Miley to focus on her friendship with fianc
M*A*S*H actor Allan Arbus dies
Actor Allan Arbus, best known for his role as Army psychiatrist Sidney Freedman on the 1970s hit television series “M*A*S*H” and as the husband of the late photographer Diane Arbus, has died at the age of 95. Arbus, who gave up his photography for acting, passed away from congestive heart failure at his home in Los Angeles on Friday, his second wife Mariclare Costello Arbus told Reuters.
Not enough heroines in kids books
There is a ‘girl power’ void in new books for Kiwi kids, according to judges on a children’s book awards panel. Finalists for The New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards were released this morning, with 19 books picked out of hundreds to contend for awards across four categories.
Not enough heroes for girls in kids books
There is a ‘girl power’ void in new books for Kiwi kids, according to judges on a children’s book awards panel. Finalists for The New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards were released this morning, with 19 books picked out of hundreds to contend for awards across four categories.
Gomez ‘offers Bieber support’
Selena Gomez “was one of the first to get in touch” with Justin Bieber after his week of woes. The two young stars are not dating at the moment, after experiencing problems at the end of last year
Behavior: Alpha Wave of the Future
Alone in a semidarkened room, a young woman relaxed in an armchair before a blank screen, three electrodes fixed to her scalp and one grounded to an earlobe. Suddenly a pale blue light flickered on the screen and then steadied; a voice said quietly: “That's alpha.” The voice was that of Neurophysiologist Barbara Brown of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Sepulveda, Calif
Study: Older Men Want Sex More Than Older Women Do
Spring is coming, and a young man’s thoughts turn to … you know.