Rachel Glucina

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Many of you would have seen the footage of me driving my Ferrari 458 along the motorway on Rachel Glucina’s new website Scout. You may also have seen me using a Black & Decker portable mini vacuum cleaner to clean up some bits of muck my Prada shoes had trampled into the upholstery.

Couple of quick points on this: gutter reporting. In the story Glucina seemed incredibly fixated on my Newstalk ZB salary. She claimed it was 1.2 million. But she failed to mention the money I make from TVNZ as well as income I earn from endorsements and appearances. In my opinion that’s lazy journalism. If you’re going to paint me as an eccentric out of touch clean freak then at least be accurate. She also overlooked my obsession with Italian shoes and my love of designer hair product. There was no mention of my $1000 dollar deconstructed jackets or gold-plated socks.

To her credit she did mention the $5.5 million house which I acquired this year, but then she made me look cheap by reporting that I bought it for $400,000 under the asking price. For the record I paid more than the asking price and gave the Real Estate agent a case of Chateau du Sainte-Anne as a token of my appreciation and an acknowledgement that I am a very wealthy man.

My message to Rachel Glucina is this: if you’re going to stalk me at least tell the full story. Don’t paint me like a pauper.

Happy days. We’ll see you tomorrow.