King of Confidence THE SECRET I’VE KEPT FOR 60 YEARS

If you were at the same school play that featured Mike King’s youngest daughter Charlie earlier this month, the former funnyman wants to apologise.

If you thought he was, at best, aloof, or worse, full of himself, the mental-health advocate wants to say sorry.

For the first time in his 60 years, the Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year is publicly declaring he suffers from social anxiety and purposely kept to himself to avoid talking to the other primary-school parents.

While he can stoically argue with government ministers, champion mental wellness on live TV and give presentations to literally thousands of school children – that armour disappears if he has to make small talk. He’d kept it so secret that Joanna, his wife of seven years, had