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Otago Daily Times
6 days ago
- Sport
- Otago Daily Times
14-year-old wants to become world's strongest teen
A Christchurch 14-year-old is vying to prove she is the strongest teenager in the world at the global teenage CrossFit Games. Tahlia Vosaki will fly to Ohio in the United States in August for the competition, which is reserved for the top 30 fittest teenagers in her age group. CrossFit involves high intensity interval training, which builds strength and conditioning through weightlifting, gymnastics and cardio. The 14-year-old said she had a rigorous training schedule, and switched to homeschooling last year to help her achieve her goal. "I train five days a week, and I have two rest days and on one of them I swim and do a recovery," she told RNZ's Afternoons. "On my training days I train once in the morning which would be about one-and-a-half to two hours, then I go home and do my schoolwork, and then in the afternoon I would go back to the gym and have a two to two-and-a-half-hour session." Tahlia Vosaki, 14, will represent New Zealand at the global teenage CrossFit Games. Photo:Tahlia Vosaki Vosaki's personal bests included lifting 160kg in the deadlift and 85kg in the snatch lift (lifting a barbell from the ground to overhead in one smooth motion). She said she got into CrossFit through her parents. "They would take me and my sister with them to the gym and I remember watching them do their CrossFit classes and wanting to do them," she said. Competing at the world games had been a long-held goal, she said. "There were two different steps to qualify for the games. The first one was the CrossFit open where a bunch of teams sign up and it was one workout a week for three weeks, then the top 200 move on to the semi-finals which was over a weekend, we had five workouts, and whoever qualified from that the top 30 goes to CrossFit Games," Vosaki said. "I hope to keep doing this and make it to the adult games when I'm older."
Otago Daily Times
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
Cheese rolls for RNZ's Dunedin visit
RNZ presenter Jesse Mulligan (right) talks to Highlander Jona Nareki at the isite visitor centre in the Octagon yesterday. PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH This was not your ordinary radio studio. But for RNZ's Afternoons presenter Jesse Mulligan, hosting yesterday's show in the Dunedin isite was an opportunity to right a wrong. The presenter made headlines earlier this month when trying to call the Dunedin isite as part of a weekly segment when he randomly calls an information centre around New Zealand with the goal of learning more about the town or city in question. When he attempted to call Dunedin, the lines were occupied. So why not bring the show to the isite? Mr Mulligan told the Otago Daily Times yesterday it was "entirely" his idea to host it at the Dunedin isite, and he did not worry too much about the logistics. "I was horrified by the idea that anyone might have got in trouble or felt at all guilty or bad about just doing their job, which is really what happened when I called for the first time. "So it was easy for us to decide to come down here and show Dunedin a bit of love." Mr Mulligan hosted a special all-Dunedin themed show, talking to sportsmen, musicians, business and conservation leaders from the city. "It was actually pretty seamless, but I'm a radio presenter, so everything's always seamless for me. "I just show up and all the hard work is being done, I'm embarrassed to say." Interview subjects included The NZ Brush Company owner Hadleigh McPherson, Super Rugby Highlanders co-captain Hugh Renton, Dunedin reviewer and broadcaster Pat Brittenden and the Wildlife Hospital Trust manager Jordana Whyte. "Dunedin's got a really strong brand, and everyone knows what it's all about. So, I'm not an expert on marketing, but today I've seen the Dunedin that I've been promised, which is beautiful and kind and cultural and interesting." It also included him savouring culinary delights such as Patti's & Cream's special clam-and-tomato flavoured ice cream, and cheese rolls. Mr Mulligan, who also moonlights as a food reviewer, preferred the latter. "I talked about cheese rolls a lot, as you do as an Aucklander who hosts a TV and a radio show. "You know, we're always chatting about cheese rolls, but actually I don't believe that I've ever tried one before, so that made me pretty happy." Mr Mulligan said he would happily host the show in Dunedin again if he had the chance. "Of course, we're a national taxpayer-funded radio station, so we can't be shown to be playing favourites towards Dunedin, but any chance I get, I come down. "I was invited to host the New Year's celebrations in the Octagon, and I really enjoyed doing that."
NZ Herald
09-05-2025
- Health
- NZ Herald
Sir Dave Dobbyn shares health update, how Parkinson's has changed his performing
Appearing today on RNZ's Afternoons show to play an acoustic session, the Welcome Home singer reflected on receiving his diagnosis, telling host Jesse Mulligan it was 'kind of a relief'. 'It was a relief to find out what it was, because my family couldn't really recognise me. During Covid I went right down the rabbit hole somewhere, I got quite lost. 'And there can be a slight personality change, it can become quite pronounced in some people. 'Thankfully for me, it wasn't too bad. I was rescued by my family, shall we say, and I was able to tackle it head-on.' Dobbyn said almost three years on from that life-changing diagnosis he was 'thrilled with my progress'. 'It does change you, it makes you more receptive, and humble, you find your place in it.' Dobbyn is also 'literally' fighting the progressive neurological disorder by taking up boxing. 'Twice a week I go and do my boxing with some other Parky people, that's what we call ourselves – the Parkies,' Dobbyn told Mulligan. Dobbyn said the combat exercise has helped him counteract many of the physical symptoms of the neurodegenerative disease. 'It [boxing] does wonders for your balance, because your balance is shot with Parkinson's. 'You get all these things that are taken away from you, your balance, the strength of your voice in terms of loudness, things like that become difficult. 'But if you're fighting it and you're doing some exercises, it's the best way to deal with it.' Dobbyn was in good spirits during the performance. He said he considers himself in 'good shape' at the moment but admitted his musicality has been affected by the disease. 'I play less. I can't shred anymore, not that I ever did really... things get taken away. I do less on the piano, which is probably a good idea, I do less on the guitar and focus on the vocal. 'Eventually, it takes your voice, so you sound like a slurring drunk. But I think I'm a few years away from that. I've already done the slurring drunk bit, and it didn't involve Parkinson's.' Dobbyn was knighted in 2020 and appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2003 for services to music. He is set to perform a show at the Auckland Town Hall on June 4. He said the thought of the performance 'scares the hell out of me right now, but I'm sure in doing it on the night it will just be glorious'.
The Australian
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Australian
ABC Radio's soggy breakfast shows drag Aunty down
ABC Radio continues to shed listeners across its key markets of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, with the broadcaster's various breakfast programs falling flat across the board. The performance of the Melbourne breakfast timeslot pairing of ex-AFL star Bob Murphy and former Seven reporter Sharnelle Vella will be of particular concern to ABC management. The duo saw their audience share slip to just 5.6 per cent in the second ratings survey of 2025 (which was released on Thursday), having also lost significant ground in the first poll of the year. By way of comparison, comedian Sammy J, who fronted the ABC Melbourne breakfast program until the end of last year, recorded a 7.9 per cent audience share in his final survey. As with all radio stations, breakfast programs set the tone for all of the other shows that follow throughout the day, and the dismal ratings of Murphy and Vella seem to be holding the station's audience at historically low levels. ABC Melbourne Mornings, Afternoons and Drive programs sit in eighth, ninth and ninth position in their respective timeslots, and there is little likelihood of a resurgence for those shows unless Murphy and Vella can develop some momentum in the most important timeslot of the day. ABC Sydney breakfast show host Craig Reucassel also recorded a ratings drop in survey two, slipping to an 8.3 per cent market share (down 0.5 percentage points). New ABC Radio Sydney breakfast host Craig Reucassel. The station saw its market share fall across all timeslots – morning show host Hamish Macdonald dropped 0.2 points to 6.2 per cent, James Valentine fell 1.1 points to 5.3 per cent in afternoons, and the drive program, fronted by Chris Bath, was down 0.7 percentage points to 6.5. It was a similar story in Brisbane – the ABC's breakfast show pairing of Craig Zonca and Loretta Ryan saw their market share slip from 8.3 to 7.9, leaving them in sixth position in the prestigious timeslot, which was won by Nova's Ash, Luttsy and Nikki Osborne with a 13.6 per cent slice of the audience (up 1.5 percentage points). Brisbane comedian Nikki Osborne replaces Susie O'Neil to become Ash, Luttsy & Nikki Osborne on Nova's new breakfast show. Pics: Pete Wallis ABC Adelaide lost listeners across its breakfast and mornings programs, but ABC Perth enjoyed small gains in those timeslots. If there is one good piece of news to emerge for the ABC this survey, it's that Radio National's breakfast program, hosted by Sally Sara, managed to claw back some listeners following her disastrous ratings performance in the first survey of the year. Sara lifted her audience share in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide, quite possibly benefiting from an election campaign-driven bounce in audience interest in political matters. The ratings survey stretched from February 9 to April 12 (the election was called on March 28). The Nine-owned stations registered mixed results in survey two – Sydney's 2GB performed well, with morning show host Mark Levy (who replaced Ray Hadley in December) leaping by 2 percentage points to notch an audience share of 15.5, comfortably ahead of the timeslot's second-placed program on smoothfm (13.5). DAILY TELEGRAPH- 21.3.25 2GB radio host Mark Levy pictured today inn Sydney. Picture: Sam Ruttyn 2GB's breakfast program, with Ben Fordham at the helm, maintained the number one position in the timeslot with a 15.6 per cent audience share (up by 1.2 points), ahead of the Kyle & Jackie 'O' show on KIISFM (down 1 point to 12.3). The Melbourne foray of the Kyle & Jackie 'O' show is still yet to pay off, although the show increased its market share in this survey by 0.7 percentage points, from 5.1 to 5.8. The program currently sits in seventh place in the city's breakfast timeslot, which is dominated by 3AW's Ross Stevenson and Russel Howcroft (18.8 per cent market share, down 1.8 points). 3AW morning show host Tom Elliott experienced a sharp dip in listenership, falling 3.6 percentage points to 15.6, but he easily retains the number one position in the timeslot.
BBC News
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Robbie Williams asks Michelle McManus for tour duet in Edinburgh
Robbie Williams has invited Scottish Pop Idol winner Michelle McManus to sing a duet with him on the first date of his tour in Rock DJ singer will embark on a highly-anticipated European tour which starts in Murrayfield on 31 who won the televised singing competition in 2003, was interviewing Williams on her Afternoons show on BBC Radio Scotland when he surprised her with the asked her: "Would you like to come and sing with me in Edinburgh?" She replied: "What, sorry? What was that?"Williams repeated his question and McManus, from Glasgow, can be heard starting to cry."Is this a joke?" she said. "For goodness sake, yes!""Let's do it," said Williams. "We'll sort out what song later."The singer is set to perform some of his most popular songs on tour including Angels and She's the One, as well as new songs from his recent has previously performed duets with the likes of Kylie Minogue, Nicole Kidman and Taylor Swift. Better Man tells the story of Robbie Williams and his rise to fame - but he is portrayed by an anthropomorphic chimpanzee. The film was released in December and depicts the early days of Take That as well as his struggles with drug addiction and mental told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime programme that she assumed Williams was going to ask her for food recommendations in Edinburgh."At no point ever in my wildest dreams did I think he was about to ask me what he did," she said."I cried a lot after it happened. It's the enormity of being onstage in Murrayfield in front of about 70,000 people with Robbie Williams."But it's also the magnitude of the kindness. Robbie has been so incredibly kind to me on so many different occasions even though he's such a megastar." McManus said she got to know Williams in the early 2000s after she won Pop Idol."Robbie had just done Knebworth and he was absolutely huge with a solo career," she said."He was getting a lot of really horrible stuff written about him in the press. As soon as Pop Idol came along, I got a lot of that as well."It was so intense at the time about how unattractive I was, about how overweight I was. He was a huge fan of reality TV and noticed that we were both getting a lot of column inches."McManus said Williams reached out to her after her time on Pop Idol with some advice on dealing with the added: "I cried a lot with him at the time and it never left me because he gave me some great advice and it really helped me get through that initial period." When asked what she would like to sing with him, McManus said: "That man could hand me the phone book and I'd sing it for him, I don't care because it's Robbie Williams."Obviously I want to Lulu it right up - but I don't think he'll do Relight My Fire because why would he? With the back catalogue that man's got, I'm not going to ask him to whip out a Take That number."I'll give it my best shot. He knows I'm a big belter."She told BBC Scotland that it was especially meaningful to sing in front of a Scottish crowd with someone who has been "really important to me throughout all of my career".In 2014, McManus was invited to sing with Rod Stewart at the Hydro in Glasgow to celebrate 50 years of the Lisbon Lions - the Celtic team that won the European Cup in Portugal in also performed alongside Susan Boyle for Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to Glasgow in she added: "To get to this point 22 years after I won the competition, this is probably the biggest thing I've been asked to do. "I'm still in shock. My heart is bursting."
