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TimShadbolt

  • Presenter
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Tim Shadbolt’s amiable journey from protestor to politician has included many appearances before the cameras. Shadbolt has competed on Dancing with the Stars, climbed mountains in Borneo for Intrepid Journeys, and made cameo appearances in a number of movies (Utu, The World's Fastest Indian, the 2017 remake of Goodbye Pork Pie). He has also presented on The Project, That's Fairly Interesting and for 1981 graffiti documentary Writing on the Wall. In 2012 the longtime Invercargill mayor broke two world records, after completing a marathon 26 hour long interview on Southland’s former Cue TV.

Screenography

2024 Subject Film
2018 - 2023 Subject Series
2017 As: Tim Shadbolt Film
2017 - 2023 Presenter Series
2015 Subject Television

Awards

2019 Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit
For Services to Local Government and the Community

“My husband hasn’t laughed so much in years.”

Text from Sheena in Twizel, April 2012, during a world recordbreaking television interview with Tim Shadbolt

Related images

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That's Fairly Interesting reporters, from left to right Neil Roberts, Sue Kedgley, Phil Gifford and Tim Shadbolt.
Kindly supplied by The Dominion Post.