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Britain is still in lockdown when we speak, but while the rest of the nation bakes sourdough and declutters wardrobes, London-based Kiwi journalist Bianca Nobilo is jumping through political hoops, trying to secure an interview with Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
This is life when you’re a CNN anchor and correspondent with your own weeknight show, The Brief with Bianca Nobilo.
“Boris is someone I’m desperate to talk to, mainly so he can explain the approach he’s taken with the virus,” says Bianca, 31, a posh British accent coating her Antipodean vowels.
When we chat, it’s 9pm UK time and the night chill is wrapping itself around Bianca’s mother’s house in Surrey, where she has relocated for lockdown. Home is usually a rented apartment in Westminister with a view of the River Thames and the Houses of Parliament, where Bianca once worked as a political campaigner and researcher, but now grills politicians for CNN.
“I moved in with Mum for lockdown because she’s got a lovely place next to a forest where I can walk every day. It also
