Jeremy Wells

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Biography

Jeremy Wells (born 7 June 1977) is a New Zealand media personality who hosts the Radio Hauraki breakfast show with Matt Heath, Seven Sharp alongside Hilary Barry, and the NZ version of Taskmaster.

He first appeared on television in 1997 on MTV. He later appeared as Newsboy on Mikey Havoc's television show. He and Havoc went their separate ways when the show finished - Havoc fronting a show on TV3 and Jeremy hosting Eating Media Lunch on TVNZ. He also presented the satirical The Unauthorised History Of New Zealand in 2005 and an episode of Intrepid Journeys in 2007. The New Zealand Listener described his deadpan delivery as "newsnight-of-the-living-dead", saying he would be "compelling viewing reading the phone book".

He became notorious in November 2003 when an episode of Eating Media Lunch spoofed the current affairs programme Target, which often used hidden cameras to catch unreliable tradepersons or workers. The spoof depicted two actors as Target camera technicians in someone else's home, caught on hidden camera in acts such as masturbation, defecation (on a kitchen stove), drug use and phone sex. One technician stripped naked, covered himself with cling wrap, and appeared to urinate on the other technician.

He spent 23 days travelling with the 108 members of the NZSO in October 2010 and produced a documentary The Grand Tour, a product of his own interest in classical music. The programme contains several interviews with the musicians and support crew, including Dame Kiri Te Kanawa.

He co-hosted The Saturday Special with Steve Simpson on bFM; the show continued when both hosts moved to Radio Hauraki. In 2014, he became a co-host of the Radio Hauraki breakfast show, alongside Matt Heath and Laura McGoldrick.

Since 2018, he has co-hosted TVNZ's Seven Sharp with Hilary Barry, and in 2020 he became the titular Taskmaster in the New Zealand version of the TV series Taskmaster.

[Source: Wikipedia, 15/02/2022.]