Newshub’s Wilhelmina ‘MY FAMILY HEARTBREAK’
Mar 21, 2021
3 minutes
Words: Sebastian van der Zwan.
Newshub presenter Wilhelmina Shrimpton was only four years old when her beloved grandfather Lloyd died of bowel cancer.
She recalls, “He went bald and I remember asking, ‘Poppa, where did your hair go?’ He told me his hairs had run away because they were scared of him and we had a giggle together.”
The “really kind and wonderful man” passed away not long afterwards at age 64 and while Wilhelmina was too young to understand, the Three
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