David Lomas is a sucker for a happy outcome. It’s what drives him to do the work he does, tracking down long-lost family members on his TV show David Lomas Investigates.
It’s also why he prefers romcoms to thrillers or mysteries. “Give me a Hugh Grant movie any day or one with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan,” he laughs. “I like happy endings, although they make me cry all the time.”
And it’s why the journalist is over the moon to have found his own special someone, Auckland primary school principal Clarinda Franklin.
The couple have now been together for five years and David still pinches himself that Clarinda is part of his life. He’s adept at keeping his emotions in check on TV, even when faced with reunions that have viewers in floods of tears, but when it comes to talking about Clarinda, he wears his heart on his sleeve.
“I ask myself often, ‘How did this happen? Why
