She’s a familiar face on our screens and has been for a while now. But when Rebecca Gibney talks to the Weekly from her Dunedin home, she is shockingly real.
“Oh, look at my hair,” she says flicking her blonde hair up and down. “I went to the hairdressers yesterday and I said, ‘I know I’ve got everything and I’m so lucky and grateful, but couldn’t I just have been given a bit more hair?’” she laughs.
“I know that by the time I’m 80, I’m going to have three hairs left and I’ll probably dye them purple and perm them!”
Rebecca, 58, is very funny. And it’s this humour and unaffected personality which shines through in her popular TVNZ 1 series Under the Vines. In its second season, the hit show about two people who inherit a struggling vineyard in Clyde is a piece of sunshiny bliss, funny and calming, addictive and heartwarming all at once.
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