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One of NZ television's more notorious episodes, the 1987 Gofta Awards start promisingly with an extended montage of Auckland scenes (just before the share market crash) but it's downhill from there. Presenters Leeza (Entertainment This Week) Gibbons and Nic Nolan look bizarre in silver suits; an underfed and over excited audience grows more and more vocal; special guest John Inman (Mr Humphries from UK sitcom Are You Being Served?) is heckled; and things come badly unstuck as timing issues see winners turned away as they try to collect their awards.
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Rubbish!
It's like a school prizegiving.
The aggressive P.C. drunk who bawled "F_ _ k off!" at John Inman was Peter Wells. A week or so after this debacle, TRUTH featured him glowering petulantly on the front page, with the classic headline: "WE NAME GOFTA SLOB."
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iain Eggleton
Posted at 01.59PM - 06.09.2011
There has been worse.. or better. At the Feltex Awards at the Poenamu in AKL 75 or something. Everybody pissed... no food .. jeering. BIll McArtney falling over going up ...among others. General mayhem joe public just walking in and joining in the piss up. people going in the pool..Wonderful.