N to Z-list celebrities.

New Zealand is quite a small, and isolated country.

Probably too small and isolated for it to contain any "celebrities" in the common vernacular.

Oh sure, there are New Zealanders who are well-known overseas.

But local celebrities? Surely not.

Well, in one sense you could make the argument we don't. Despite how the media works.

I lead you to this, a new website of interest and mirth, Bleak New Zealand Celebrities

A display of people in NZ known by most of the population, for various reasons, but as you can see, they don't exactly "live in an elite circle" socially.

Take this example from one of our local cricket players, finding a rather mundane way to use the networking tool, Twitter :




Or this, from a popular young band:



Not exactly what dreams are made of.

Thanks to ex-pat Si Jae Hwan for for passing this on to us here at The Smoochest. I share it with you.