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As an interview, it was a disaster. I spent seven hours with Bob Jones, during which time he ordered six bottles of wine and didn’t answer one of my questions.
I can’t say I wasn’t warned. Just before our lunch-time interview, he told radio presenter Mike Yardley that he was personally responsible for a recent increase in red wine consumption. I walked away from an afternoon with Bob Jones with my head spinning, and not just from the wine. I couldn’t tell you when he got his OBE or how he got started in property investment, but I heard stories about him punching out the Czechoslovakian president and making a fortune by sending everyone in England a bill for 12 pounds. He spun yarns about discussing Rastafarianism with Lennox Lewis’s mother and meeting Haile Silassie - twice. Woman Today
By Kris Herbert It’s hard to imagine New Zealand fashion without iconic Dunedin label, Nom*D, yet when Margarita (Margi) Robertson and her husband Chris started the company 1986, the words “New Zealand” and “fashion” were scarcely uttered in the same sentence. |
AboutKris Herbert is an award-winning freelance journalist with 24 years experience (she started writing for the local rag when she was 16 - you do the maths). Read by date
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