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From Gold Mines to Good Mornings — Melanie Kerr’s Wild Path into TV (and the Wonder Whisk)

From Gold Mines to Good Mornings — Melanie Kerr’s Wild Path into TV (and the Wonder Whisk)

Update: 2025-10-17
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From a WA cattle station and gold mine to live radio in Whakatāne and seven years inside TVNZ’s Good MorningMelanie Kerr unpacks how she “just had a go” and became a familiar Kiwi face. We cover advertorial hosting, big-money commercial days, the shift to social media, and the truly unhinged products she had to demo (hello, metal weight-loss belt and the infamous Wonder Whisk motion 😳). Plus: airport double-takes, on-set wardrobe… solutions, a brutal lesson in online bullying, and the immortal sign-off flub: “pureas dot com.

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From Gold Mines to Good Mornings — Melanie Kerr’s Wild Path into TV (and the Wonder Whisk)

From Gold Mines to Good Mornings — Melanie Kerr’s Wild Path into TV (and the Wonder Whisk)