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December 18, 2025 12 mins

For the final time this year, Heather du Plessis-Allan was joined by Kerre Woodham and Tim Wilson to Wrap the Week that Was.

They discussed the Vanity Fair photoshoot of the Trump Administration, festive clothing, and their plans for the Christmas holidays. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Number one in the charts in the UK, number one
on the album's charts. She's pushed off all kinds of
people who've slipped down as a result of including Taite.
She's doing quite well. You want to go and see
the album cover. It's a saucy little phojo from our
lovely Kylie White. But unfortunately Kerrie's face is not doing
a good thing.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
And you haven't even spoken.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
No.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
I think Kylie.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Kylie is gorgeous. I love Kylie. But top of the
Christmas charts really, well, who else would be top of
the Christmas charts? Well, any one of the Christmas or
you know, I mean Chris Rare. The old classics like
the seventies or the nineteen eighty. Christmas is nostalgia. This
is what we always get. We get the old bangers. Hello,

(00:47):
Merry Christmas.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Carr got your name right this time around, and can
I say still improvement. You cannot see this, but Carrie
has turned up in a kind of merlow, like a
burgundy red Frock, which is apparently her festive frock. And
she gets a festive Frock every year, and shocked that
I do not buy myself annually some sort of a
festive outfit do.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
You I'm wearing. I'm wearing my festive trackies at the moment,
the same trackies I always wear.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Sorry, lovely Georgia, you know, our lovely young colleague. Yeah.
I came in and she said, oh, you'll love these
ear rings, and I peered at them and I went, oh,
I do. It's a pretty little ballerina and a Christmas
dress with little Christmas ball slippers to put your glasses
on or what was it center doing the splits and
the balls is something.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
I love. It's great in all Honestly, you do go
out and buy yourself a Christmas frock, do you?

Speaker 2 (01:48):
I think I've done so well.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Not.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
You know, sometimes in the olden days it used to
be on lay by and it doesn't have to be
expensive or it has to be a Christmas something. I
think Mum started it to be perfectly honest.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
It's quite a nice thing to do.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah. I mean, I know you don't like dresses, which
is a shame because.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
I haven't gone public with this factory, so now everyone
knows I don't like dresses.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
I don't like lots of people don't like dresses. It's
very hard to please be honest.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
It's hard to do things in a dress, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
No, I've managed all money dresses like a flight of
Steve I most certainly can and high heels.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
But also it has led to some breakages in your life.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Well that is true, but I mean.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
I have I've never felt more like a male during
this conversation. You guys just started speaking other language. I
mean the fest of romper blah blah.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
I think here that in a fest of romper, nothing
says Christmas. Thank you? Yeah you know, I did.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
I did one time. I did buy a red fest
of Onesie and I still have it. Actually might get
it out for you, Carrious, thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Now now my last day.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Oh yeah, you're saying you'll send you thank God though,
isn't that good?

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Thank God? You know what, Tim? I was thinking this
this week and actually had discussions with the boss that
our holidays are too long. They're a bit like the
old two day lunches that used to be a hoots
wah and lots of fun, and now they're just gross
and excessive. Seven week holidays used to be yay and aspirational.
And Nora really thinks, oh that's a bit excessive.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Do you think so?

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Aren't they ten? Was it my Catholic girl?

Speaker 3 (03:20):
No, no, No, I'm just I'm just trying to because yeah,
I'm just trying to balance it because I sort of
you know of and often we think because you know,
we got four boys. So yeah, when the holidays come,
it's like hoorade and it's like, oh my goodness, what
are we going to do. I'm actually I'm actually currently
wounded because I got shot in the eye with a
NERF gun last night. There's been a NERF gun war,
and when I woke up this morning, it was sort

(03:41):
of like these black spots over my left eye that
sort of looked like bracken, And I'm like, oh, Roman, No,
I'll be all right. See see, I'm I'm a bloke.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
I don't go that's fine.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
I mean, that's your eye. If you want to lose it,
that's true. Who are we to tell?

Speaker 2 (03:59):
But then the he will get so much that you'll
be queuing on Christmas Day and already overworked ED department
will be seeing somebody who put off getting treatment.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Actually, Tim, you spent that you spent was it one
or two nights this week in Starship?

Speaker 3 (04:12):
One night in Starship because we we decided to do
two boys with their tonsils. So four tonsels, four adnoids
and two boys. Yeah, yeah, no, I'll tell you what though,
I don't know where they came from. These well, these boys,
it must be their mother's side. So the surgeon walks

(04:33):
in and says Roman, and Roman looks up and says,
so it's my time to die?

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Is it too many movies by the Soudings? Did you tim?

Speaker 2 (04:45):
I love Starship?

Speaker 1 (04:46):
And I think I like yeah, Auckland parents are so
fortunate to have edudicated children.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
It's for all children, it is, you know. And they
do get the opportunities.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Hone down from a hoop and cough, do you know
what I mean? Like other parents obviously only get flown
up if there's like some sort of like brain bleed
or something like that.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Trees and charity too.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, I love them. Did you get? And what I
love about it is you get nowadays they've got the
kiddy's bed or the cot or whatever, and then the
parent gets like a pull out Did you get the
pull out thing?

Speaker 3 (05:14):
I got? I got mattresses. Here's here's the here's the
tip that I got from from a parent, who's been
been there for a few days, and she said, get
two mattresses if you can stack them on top of
each other.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Oh yes, I've done the mattress on the floor two
over my time.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
And you want to double blanket as well because they
a little bit chilly.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, you are living proof of something I've said just recently.
It's all fun and games till someone loses an eye.
And you are right. What can I also do a
shout out to all the other grandparents I see who
are trying to help out during the school holidays, as
we're all trying to do fun things with the kids
that don't cost ten thousand dollars. Every time you go somewhere,

(05:56):
I see you grandparents.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
We see all the grandparents. Thank the Good Lord for
the grandparents, especially the ones that end up with broken
bones as a result. Tim, have you had to look
at those vanity fair photographs of the Trump administration?

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Thoughts?

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Why did they do it? Like two words vanity fear
And they say it's like, oh, well, oh golly, we
didn't realize the coverage would be like that's well, of
course it will. It's verity Fair. It's like it's like
someone you know, someone like a National Party guy going,
why was John Campbell so mean to me?

Speaker 1 (06:31):
You've brought it up now I'm going to have to
talk about it later on.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Just as what it is, what it is?

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Why why would John Campbell possibly be mean to somebody
from the National Party.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
But also you've got to get approval, Like I've looked
that even working in the media, you get approval of
the text, you get approval of the photos and Rookie
era very early on, I didn't get approval headline.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
But hold the headline isn't the same, Kiri, Like if
you go in the Women's Day you get the approved.
But I reckon that that magazines with it, I don't
want to be unkind, but with like a stronger editorial
stance would never give you approval.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Only marginally stronger with vanity fair Do you reckon that
they would give you a PROVLE mean it's not the Atlantic.
I mean surely those Susie read the Economist, But I mean.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
It's true, But surely Susie Wilde's going and sitting down
and going every time you.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Say Susie wild image of Susie.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Wild no, no no.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
When you first said Susie wild I was like, I said,
Auckland pro vax academic doing in Vanity Fair. I have
to see what's happening.

Speaker 4 (07:32):
Oh lord, you guys. I mean, I'll preface it by
saying the American Susie yes, please. So when the American
Susie Wild sat down and read her Vanity Fair and said,
oh look, I called him trumpy. I said he had
an alcoholic personality, do you think she went there? Fine,
let's take that one off.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
No, But I mean you've got to ask, I mean
a why would you do vanity Fair question? And me,
why would you do it without getting absolute approval of everything?

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Unfair Kerry when we look at the pictures of the
press sect and see her collagen stabs in her lips
and make comment.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
No, I mean, I mean obviously she has fellow, and
lots of young women do, and lots of I mean
more young women. I think these days have it than
older women because they're trying to turn back time. Oh
my young sisters, my young sister.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
They're trying to prevent the passage of time.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
That's right, friend, Yeah, who wants to be young?

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Do you see the Prime minister called the jetstar?

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (08:32):
And I was you know, I was sort of thinking, oh, yeah,
he made a choice. But you're right, it's like Prime
Minister owns part of the part of the New Zealand.
Oh and used to be used to be the CEO of.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
The New zeal And.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Having said that his end of year speech for so
far and he can do whatever he likes.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Oh do you enjoy that? I enjoyed that as well.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Yeah did he? Do you think he did the best
speech in terms of comedic awards?

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Who would you who would you say beat him? Because
I'm going to tell you now, chippies Chippy's analogy to
fool that he was drawing with the barbecue that went
on for about seven minutes. By the end of it,
it was top mate by thirty seconds. It was tired.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah, but do you know who he was one of
the best speakers at Barry's valedictory sender or his speech writer,
but he delivered it. Well, you know, there were some
banging speeches at Barry's.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, but we're not talking about Barries. You're doing the
thing that Barry does when I talk about anything and
Barry goes that. I know when once upon a time when.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
I was talking of a story about me.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
I'm so sorry, but no, no, I thought that was
relevant because we were talking about funny speeches and can
deliver them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But also I want our
PM to get somewhere expeditiously, and ideally he would use
their New Zealand because Air New Zealand have to cover
the roots that Jetstar choosers not to, so they have
to do roots that that Jetstar don't. But if you

(09:53):
want to get there expeditiously, then you'll use whatever.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
And I'm going to do Jetstar, yeah, because they get
their on time well or his Air New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
But also if that's his schedule, I don't want them
going well, I'm going to virtue signal by sitting for
two hours in a Cory lounge and wait for an
air news host.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Family, Now, what are you doing for Christmas, Carre? You
got anything fun planned?

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Well, some might say yes, I'm doing a roadie with
my mum. Okay, so we're having breakfast with the family
and then and the unwrapping of the presence of the
little ones. Then I prefer to see it as Thelma
and Louise than driving Miss Daisy. We're heading to the
Rotadora Lakes yes, because I've never done the rotato A

(10:31):
Lakes and that's where my brother and sister in law
and all their family are, so were gate crashing their Christmas.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
This is nice, I don't.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
And then I'm taking it a fun ta to see
her old school friend who she's known for eighty three years,
and both of these wild, fabulously wonderful independent women are
still you know.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Who gets to pack the tunes in the car.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
We're going to take it in turns. We both agree
on Neil Diamond and relevant given that the movie's coming
out on Year's Day, and then we take it in turns.
I've got her into Marlon Williams, Glenn.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Marlon Williams listen. Tim Glen has controversially said, Marlon Williams sucks.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Is this a new one in Funeral? And I just
won't have it. And I have held Glenn in the
highest regard until now, but he's.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Cooked his goose against the bloke. This is the music, Yeah,
killing Roy Orbison voice apparently is just doesn't warble.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
He sows like an angel.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Well he just he just serenades, doesn't doesn't it? We
Serea boys, I mean, do we need to calm down
right now a little bit. What are you doing for
Chrissy other than getting shot in the face of the
nerve gun?

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Oh? Four boys? What? What?

Speaker 3 (11:39):
We actually you know what, We're off to sing some
Carols tonight with our in laws.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
So this is.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
My mate actually married Rachel's sister. And so they've got
four girls and we've got four boys, and it's going
to be absolute bedlam and chaos, but it'll be Carol
chaos that sounds.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
You'll be able to get all glory of L's old
school equipment than any.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Don't worry. God got her back and she's coughing.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
I hope you're doing something really lovely and feminine and
beautiful for the beautiful, beautiful wife and mother of yours
for amazing.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yes, treat the ladies. Hey, listen, guys, look after yourself.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, God bless you.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
As Tim Wilson carry wouldham the week that was and actually,
as it turns out, the.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Year that was.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
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