When Hilary Timmins pops over to New Zealand for a visit from her home in the United Kingdom, she’ll often spot people looking at her as if to say, “You’re familiar… How do I know you?”
It usually dawns on them pretty quickly that Hilary, who has lived on the other side of the world for the past 12 years, was one of our best-known TV personalities for more than two decades.
And despite the fact she was the “Lotto Lady”, presenting the lottery draw on television for 15 years, often it’s as the co-host on It’s in the Bag that they remember her best.
“I still find it funny that people recognise me more for It’s in the Bag than muses Hilary on a Zoom call from her home near London. “It was the same when I first moved here and the ex-pat community would say they used to watch me on
