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Throng provides Breakfast’s ratings since axing Paul Henry:

After 12 months of collecting the data, we’re now able to show you how Breakfast has fared without the polarising enigma that is Paul Henry.

The ratings for the year to date, compared to last year, are down approximately 14%.

The spike at the start of 2011 is due to the Christchurch earthquake. This plot shows a 10 point moving average.

Source: Nielsen Television Audience Measurement, All 5+, 7am-8am, Feb – Oct

Terry Serepisos can’t catch a cold right now. Seems he has left behind a whole heaps of documents that the Official Assignee is very interested in obtaining.

Bankrupt property tycoon Terry Serepisos hasn’t just lost his empire – he’s also abandoned a lot of potentially sensitive paperwork.

An office he vacated years ago in central Wellington’s Ivivi building is lined with filing cabinets containing personal files, property records, business plans, architectural drawings, loan agreements, mortgage documents, accounts, staff reports, correspondence about leaks in his Roseneath home, letters from the Inland Revenue Department and papers relating to his late father’s business affairs.

The hoard was a surprise discovery for Wellington businessman Frank Wong after he took ownership of the Victoria St building – the former World Trade Centre – earlier this month.

Mr Wong, who opened the filing cabinets just to see what was in them, said leaving this sort of material behind suggested Mr Serepisos’ business affairs were not well organised.

“I thought he would have taken it with him when he left this place at least three years ago when he moved his offices to the ASB Tower. It suggests he was pretty disorganised. Lots of it is documentation I’d have thought you’d keep in safekeeping because of its importance.”

He was considering dumping the hoard, along with the old computers, fax machines, fans, an old boxing glove, chairs and other rubbish scattered around the long-abandoned office.

However, official assignee Joanne Basher, who was appointed by the court to take over all of Mr Serepisos’ affairs after his bankruptcy, said she was very interested in the documentation. “We need to gather all the business records we can.”

Her role was to look into a bankrupt’s affairs to establish their financial position and find out why they failed. She would also look into possible breaches of the law – for example, it was illegal for somebody to continue trading while insolvent or incur credit when there was no means of payment.

Whoopsy.

Berlusconi is a serious rooter.

Silvio Berlusconi was at the centre of further sordid revelations about his sex life on Saturday after the Italian leader was caught boasting of having sex with eight women in one night.

…In one conversation taped by investigators in early 2009, Mr Berlusconi told him: “Last night I had a queue outside my door, there were 11 of them. I only managed to do eight of them, I couldn’t manage any more. You just can’t get round to all of them.

“But this morning I feel great, I’m pleased with my stamina.”

Makes Trevor Mallard’s or Murray McCully’s depredations on the fairer sex seem rather tame. A certain high profile political figure who had three on the go at one time also needs to try harder.

It looks like she is conning more people, this time in funding her alleged mountaineering efforts.

Reg­u­lar read­ers will know all about Pearl Going, aka Sian Pearl Going, aka Sia-Pearl Going. Just to recap here is a list her claimed fame:

• Speaks Ara­bic, French and Span­ish but can barely type in English
• Has a BSc from Otago. (They have no record)
• she also says she has no degree
• Says she went to Senior Col­lege (They have no record)
• Says she went to Oxford Uni­ver­sity in 2006 where she stud­ied Human Sci­ences, Pol­i­tics and Inter­na­tional Rela­tions at New Col­lege. She says she stud­ied med­i­cine for two and a half years at Oxford. (I have a let­ter from Oxford say­ing she never, ever enrolled)
• also AUT in 2002 where she stud­ied Human Sciences
• also Can­ter­bury in 2005 where she stud­ied inter­na­tional studies
• she says she has a pilot’s licence but won’t say where from.
• Says she last flew up north but will give no details.
• Says her “Clean” jeans are made in NZ She wont say where. She says they are sold at a store in LA She wont say where. She also says they are sold a “best seller” in Barneys
• She says she sourced the red silk for Natalie Portman’s dress for Zac Posen,
• She says she was engaged to  Leon Roth­schild and that he slashed his wrists at the end of last year when she broke off with him.
• She says she is a friend of NY socialite Tins­ley Mortimer.
• Says she is mates with Marc Jacobs and was his fab­ric buyer and that she was Zac Posen’s muse.
• When asked if the Tins­ley Mor­timer quote on her Face­book was about her and she went all coy and smiled.
• She says she was in Brazil doing char­ity work and saved lives in a plane crash which she was in.
• She has sib­lings by dif­fer­ent fathers. The sib­lings are part maori
• She says 2 weeks before her 16^th birth­day she was drugged and raped by [removed by request of per­son con­cern] who abused her for six hours and then left her body in a dump­ster. [per­son’ name deleted as per request] is a pilot now liv­ing in the UK. I am told he is a very very decent and good young guy.
• She says she has breast cancer
• She says her mother has can­cer of the colon and is going into hospital.
• She says her father is an alco­holic because of what hap­pened to “his little girl”.
• She says she sup­ports orphan­ages in Burma, Fiji and Sierra Leone but will give no details. She pic­tures of her­self with Thai kids.
• She says she worked for Fair­Trade and Amnesty.
• She says she has spent 71 days in NZ in 2008 and maybe 6 months in NY in 2007 but she is in and out a lot so no specifics.
• The Clean Green Air com­pany doesn’t google.
• She did used to work for Pow­er­call as a telemarketer
• Her mum’s name is Max­ine 021 18X XXXX. She is a mas­sage ther­a­pist and cleaner
• She applied for a job at Fair­Trade with a steth­escope hang­ing out of her bag and wear­ing scrubs. and she got job with forged refs from Oxford that said she was the bright­est stu­dent they had seen.
• Says she is  23 and 28
• Says she lives off a Trust Fund
• Says she dated Peter Hujlich but threw a glass of wine on him when he called Peter Stew­art a pae­dophile. (He denies even know­ing Peter Stew­art, he also denies ever hav­ing a rela­tion­ship with the mad bitch)
• Has a hand­bag label using pleather — which is sup­pos­edly eco-friendly leather but which is actu­ally plastic
• Was a pilot in Brazil, saved every­one in a crash with her med­ical degree
• Grew up on a farm in South­land next to the Stew­arts, Pieter is her mum’s best friend also that she grew up in Tutakaka in a hippy family
• Worked for the UN for years
• Has been offered a job by Kate Sylvester after know­ing her ten minutes
• Been on a yacht with Richard Bran­son, who is her “friend” watch­ing the moon rise

From the Northern Advocate article we have yet another thing to add to the list of amazing things she has done:

One of her reasons for taking on the challenge was to prove herself after a brain injury she suffered in a car crash in Dubai in 2006.

The injury took much of her memory and put a stop to her studies. When she returned to Whangarei after the accident she could no longer find her way around or remember people she grew up with.

Maybe that explains the remarkable memory recovery she constantly spouts as above. But it is highly unlikely that the head injury even exists. I have seen fabricated medical evidence of this and if she keeps on saying it I will publish it all. But you can tell this is all a fabrication when you read banal tosh like this:

It was also the realisation of a childhood dream. Reconstructing her memories with the help of family members, she learned she had nagged her father to take her to a real mountain, Ruapehu, when she was 4 years old. At the age of 7 she wrote in a diary that her goal was to “climb to the top of the world”.

“To discover a dream again, when you’re old enough to do something about it, is a gift,” Ms Going said.

Wow, another thing we can add to the list. Wrote in diary at age 7!

Basically Pearl Going is a lying little minx. It looks like she has conned the Northern Advocate and Sony, Adidas, Scarpa, Marmot, Discovery Channel (yes she has their logo in her promotion photos) with her latest escapade. If I were them I’d be very concerned about being associated with a fraud and a cheat like Pearl Going.

Finally the only evidence she has allegedly climbed this mountain is a photo of someone with goggle and a hood on at the top of a mountain.

Is this really Pearl Going?

Mountain climbers I know tell me that when you “summit” you always throw back the hood and show your face so there is evidence that you did do it. Not so for Pearl Going. Her guide however shows his face in an unpublished photo. There are a few more from her Facebook page, but not an awful lot from an expediction of this size.

UPDATE: Pearl has a blog site

via the tipline

Spotted having coffee this morning at Ujazi in Napier, Labour caucus members King, Chadwick and a bored looking Shane Jones, later joined by Nash.

Their meeting finished, the girls went in one direction, the blokes in another.

Symbolic?

UPDATE: Another tipsters says that it was Rick Barker. That makes the meeting even more curious. The Deputy Leader and the two whips with Shane Jones, the leadership aspirant.

These two pap photographers were hassling my friends today.

The one in the purple likes stalking nice people at 6am at the airport.

Again these people need to learn NWFAB (never f*ck with a blogger)….or his mates.

Papping is only any good when you are hiding in bushes.

The one in purple should have known all about hiding in bushes.

From now on I and my friends will be running a pap of the paps competition. Let’s see how they like it.

Paparazzi superstar Simon “Porkchop” Runting made an arse of himself this afternoon being the world’s least discreet paparazzi photographer.

Today he didn’t even find bush and blazingly stood taking pics for his master The Pork Chop.

Problem is he was so slow, he got papped first.

Simon Runting papped again

This is now the second time this blog has papped Runting.

Surely this makes him the most #biwinning cameraman in the world.

Models look out at Fashion Week, imagine Runting coming at you in the changing room?

Pearl Going is a con-woman. She travels around spinning incredible yarns about how important, connected and famous she is. The simple fact is she is just a dirty little cheat.

The last escapade I blogged about was when she tried to con Kaimata Lodge in the South Island. She was run out of town and despite much bluster and useless threats she disappeared.

Well, she is back. In Auckland. And Naked.

She finally surfaced sans clothes and at Mollies. I just bet she spun them a line too.

Photo by Calypso Paoli

An astute reader has pointed out a stark difference between the David Farrar that once lumbered across the earth to the one that currently is rolling through the UK.

Two days ago he told us about his imaginary friend and about his rental car, a gay Prius.

Three years ago, almost to the day, he wrote a similar piece about his first day in London and the rental car he had back then.

Then: A Mercedes C180

Now: A gay Prius

Back then he was on a boys trip, now he is travelling with his imaginary friend, who allegedly votes Greens.

We need photos to see what has addled his brains so much. My readers don’t believe David P. Farrar. We want photographic evidence.

Just exactly what sort of dirt did Howard have on Gerry and Simon?

Why did John Key support them?

How can someone be put forward for a gong when they were still in the job in February when nominations closed?

Is this corruption?

Why does National always reward its enemies?

What do Pike River, Howard Broad and the Red Zone all have in common?

How are they going to chase votes in Auckland when their party list ignores Auckland?

When will Metiria Turei stop telling lies and making shit up about MMP?

Was a Swiss Ball used while they were “hanging” together?

It took 266 days from Richard Worth’s resignation till the Police closed the investigation, so why are Labour calling for a quicker conclusion for Darren Hughes when only 73 days have elapsed since he fell on his sword/was pushed?

Why did they travel to New York together in 2009?

Why did Darrren Hughes use a ministerial car for the same trip with Paul Henry?

Why are tax-payers paying for Chris Carter’s travel for a job interview?

Why did Chris Carter tell anyone who would listen in the Koru Club that he spent 3 weeks with Helen on holiday?

Were you just a little bit sick in you mouth with the news?