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Showing posts with label Jonny Williams. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 29 April 2008

Megan & Pita Alatini's Marriage Woes

Megan Alatini, Jonny Williams

Another Dancing with the Stars relationship is in trouble.

In 2005, the romance between and Nerida Jantti (then going by the name Nerida Lister), saw them both break up with their partners (although they deny any hanky panky during DWTS).

More recently Cory Hutchings’ marriage was in trouble after rumours that Cory and partner Rebecca Nicholson did the horizontal mambo.

Now, Megan Alatini is admitting that her marriage to rugby player Pita is on the rocks. She’s packing her bags to head to Japan where hubby and children Trey and Tiara are eagerly waiting for Megan and daughter Tonica to join them.

The problem? The couple who have been together for 15 years admit they never see each other and have been quarrelling while they live in different countries. Is this the same couple that twittered about their happy marriage less than a year ago and shared their bedroom secrets with the gossip mags?

Megan Alatini, Jonny WilliamsMegan (or Megz as she likes to be known) says rumours that she had a fling with Dancing With The Stars partner Jonny Williams didn’t help. That’s an odd thing to say, given she started the rumours when she told the gossip mags that she thought Jonny was sexy and she found him attractive!

It was easy to feel an emotional attachment with Jonny – we had a beautiful connection.
Then she trots out the ‘we’ll be friends forever’ line. Doesn’t every DWTS couple say that?

Of course, in the case of Megan and Jonny that might be difficult. During the video footage of DWTS, Jonny was seen socialising with Megan and Pita, who was unaware of rumours at that time. Would he still be so welcoming? And how did he not notice that Jonny and Megz were smitten with each other?

Megan was seen leaving Jonny’s hotel room early in the morning during their stint on DWTS, and hotel staff say they were spending time together right up until the night of the final.

We hear it was a bit of a revolving door, with Jonny’s ex girlfriend Kirsty being ushered into the room on the nights that she travelled to Wellington to watch him dance. Their relationship of five years hit the skids during DWTS and Jonny is now dating Kristie.

Jonny dances professionally with Rebecca Nicholson. They are the current New Zealand New Vogue champs.

Nubian Angelz

Megz missed out on a television presenting role here in New Zealand but is still actively working on promoting her music career. She performs with her sisters Monique and Meryl aka Nubian Angelz and hopes to put out an album. The group recently toured NZ as part of the Variety tour and played at SkyCity. Nubian Angelz describe themselves as RnB Pop-Senation Music Group. Let’s hope Megz' singing is better than her spelling.

By the way does anyone else notice the family trait of naming all the children with the same first name? Megan’s siblings are Meryl, Monique and Miquelle. Her children all have names starting with T – Tonica, Trey and Tiara.



Photos: TVNZ

Wednesday, 9 April 2008

DWTS Semi-Final Photos

Miriama Smith and Jonny Williams Foxtrot
Last night Miriama Smith was eliminated from Dancing with the Stars, leaving Temepara George and Monty Betham to contest the final next week.

Click here for the full episode recap.


Temepara George and Stefano Olivieri Paso Doble

Temepara George and Stefano Olivieri Paso Doble

Temepara George and Stefano Olivieri Waltz

Temepara George and Stefano Olivieri Waltz

Miriama Smith and Jonny Williams Jive

Miriama Smith and Jonny Williams Jive
Miriama Smith and Jonny Williams Foxtrot

Miriama Smith and Jonny Williams Foxtrot

Monty Betham and Nerida Jantti Paso Doble

Monty Betham and Nerida Jantti Paso Doble

Monty Betham and Nerida Jantti Tango

Monty Betham and Nerida Jantti Tango

Photos: TVNZ

Tuesday, 8 April 2008

Jonny Williams Girlfriend Mystery


Uh oh. Someone made a gaffe in last week’s Sunday Star Times. Botox Bridget interviewed Dancing with the Stars contestant Miriama Smith about her relationship with Jonny Williams - more specifically about speculation the couple have a friendship with lots of fringe benefits. Mata Hari says she's happily single, Jonny also denies a romantic relationship.

Botox Bridget quotes Mata Hari denying the horizontal rumba for all she’s worth saying

“He has a girlfriend, Kirsty, and she’s lovely”

Kristie Boyd, Pipi Sopp & Portia WilsonWe don’t know if Bridge misheard or if Mata Hari made a slip of the tongue, but Kirsty is most definitely Jonny’s ex girlfriend. They share custody of their fur kid Diesel, with Kirsty taking care of him while Jonny is sashaying around the dance floor with Mata Hari. The rest of the time they alternate weeks with their boisterous fur kid. On the subject of being back with her Don Juan ex Kirsty says “No way!”

We wonder if someone got confused. Jonny is dating competitive ballroom dancer and beauty pageant wannabe Kristie Boyd, who also does the Cha Cha with the Candy Lane dancers.

Kristie came third at the beginning of 2008 in the Miss Coromandel Beauty Pageant. She was 19 years of age at the time. The winner was Pipi Sopp with Nicky Watson’s “sister” Portia Wilson taking out second place.


Kristie BoydOne week ago Kristie left a message on Jonny’s Bebo saying
hope that pillow didnt do anything i wldnt do


and another saying
Hey baby!

Cant wait to see yew tanyte!

mwa

Kristie’s Bebo lists a gal pal as her “other half” but the comments suggest Dancing with the Stars' sexy young Don Juan has struck again!


Photos: TVNZ

Monday, 17 March 2008

Miriama and Jonny’s Special Connection

Miriama Smith, Jonny WilliamsMention of dance partner Jonny Williams was conspicuous by its absence in Miriama Smith’s interview with Woman’s Day where she talks about her love life. We can now reveal why.

It turns out they sold that exclusive to a competing gossip mag. NZ Woman’s Weekly has the story of Miriama and Jonny’s “special connection”, although as far as Miss Prozac can tell, Miriama’s only special connection is to her agent, who must be working overtime booking all these interviews and spinning the stories.

Do you think they regret Miriama revealing she was “falling” for Jonny in that ridiculous fake video interview, when they later got snapped looking cosy (but not as intimate as the photos of Brendan Cole and girlfriend pawing each other), and then had to back pedal?

Oh, and the special connection. Well, of course, they’re going to be friends forever. Haven’t we heard that somewhere before on Dancing with the Stars? They’re just like brother and sister and get on amazingly well. All a bit of a yawn really.


Photos: TVNZ

Miriama Smith’s Single Life


Dancing with the Stars hottie Miriama Smith sets the record straight in this week’s Woman’s Day.

Clearly doing a spot of damage control (and earning a few extra bucks) after photos of her appeared last week looking uber-friendly with her Dancing With The Stars pro dancing partner Jonny Williams, Miriama talks about how much she loves being single. Mention of Jonny is conspicuously absent, although we did print his denial last week that there was anything romantic between the pair.

Miriama also denied any horizontal Rhumba in yesterday's Sunday Star Times. That would be much more convincing if she hadn’t been spotted getting up close and personal in Woman’s Day on Monday, and then looking uncomfortable at being close to Jonny on Tuesday’s show. That just makes us suspicious that she didn't like being "caught".

31 year-old-Miriama says that she may be single but is never alone, and describes her past relationships with high profile television personalities. We’ve mentioned her links to Frank and Brendon on several occasions, but Woman’s Day fleshes out the details
  • She was with Frank Bunce for 2½ years
  • She was engaged to Brendon Pongia and had a relationship with him for about a year
  • She lived briefly with Aussie soap actor Blair McDonough who came to fame in reality show Big Brother
Perhaps Jonny isn’t famous enough for Miriama?

It isn’t mentioned in the article, but Miriama Smith will be hosting NZ On A Plate, on Sky’s Food Television channel, starting Sundays from 30 March 2008 at 5.30pm, where it appears she has the tough job of drinking wine and eating gorgeous food.

It’s a hard life, dating hunky men, getting paid to dance with cute young Jonny, and topping it all off with a glass of vino. No wonder she prefers the single life!


Photos: TVNZ

Wednesday, 12 March 2008

Jonny Williams & Miriama Smith Gossip

Miriama Smith, Jonny Williams
Miriama Smith and Jonny Williams, last night's top scoring couple on Dancing with the Stars were seen looking cosy in this week's Womans Day, but according to Jonny you can't believe everything you see.

Jonny says,

There is pretty much nothing going on in the romance department!
Darn, they make such a lovely couple. We'll be chatting to Jonny soon, so we'll let you know how the friendship develops and whether they're just good friends, or friends with benefits.


Photos: TVNZ

Monday, 10 March 2008

Miriama Smith & Jonny Williams Lovers?

Jonny Williams, Miriama SmithWoman's Day, 17 March 2008
Dancing with the Stars contestant Miriama Smith was spotted doing an altogether different rhumba with her dance partner Jonny Williams.

This week’s Woman’s Day (which also includes a story on Golden Balls Beckham playing away with a mystery woman) has photos of Miriama and Jonny cuddling and holding hands at the beach while sipping wine. Looks like Dancing With The Stars has performed its magic again with yet another pairing hooking up off the dance floor.

Miriama (31) is six years older than Jonny and as we reported earlier both are footloose and fancy free.

Jonny Williams, Miriama Smith

Does anyone remember their video interview before last week's Rhumba? At the time we commented that it was strange for them to acknowledge the rumours so openly. Now, we see why!

JW: Miriama’s great. we get on really, really well. Everything’s cool. So…

JW: Hello. How’s it going?

MS: Great.

JW: Good.

JW: Bit late today.

MS: Yeah. Sorry.

JW: Is the traffic bad?

MS: No. No. something just came up.

JW: Okay. Is everything okay?

MS: Not really, no. I can’t with you any more Jonny. I think I’m falling for you.

JW: Well you wouldn’t be the first one, babe.

In the last series, Megan Alatini confessed that she had the hots for Jonny and rumours were flying that the two were enjoying a horizontal rhumba or two while sequestered in Wellington. Jonny had a girlfriend at the time, but the gossipers say that she was soon moved aside. One source told us that Jonny and Megan were seen sneaking out of a hotel room very early on the morning of the final of last year's Dancing with the Stars. Perhaps, they were getting in some early err dance practise!

It puts the comments in a new light, doesn't it?

Hubby Pita Alatina clearly heard the same rumours as he was spotted in the audience glowering at the pair. They later attempted damage control, giving a media interview where they talked about the secrets of their marriage and pawed each other for the benefit of the journalist.


Update: Jonny denies romance

Photos: TVNZ, Woman's Day

Thursday, 7 February 2008

Jonny Williams Interview on Video

DWTS dancer Jonny Williams was interviewed last year on Tu Te Puehu.


video
Check out the video to see his smooth moves... At the time of the interview Jonny held the titles of NZ Latin and New Vogue champion.

Monday, 3 December 2007

Jonny Williams Dancing Success

Jonny Williams, who partnered Angela Bloomfield and Megan Alatini in Dancing with the Stars was profiled on a recent episode of TV3 and Maori Television's youth program, Tu Te Puehu.

Competitive Jonny says he loves performing and winning dancing competitions, but his proudest moment was making it to the final of Dancing With The Stars during 2007. Bet it didn’t hurt that dance partner Megan Alatini told the gossip mags that she had a “secret crush” on spunky young Jonny. And if one commenter can be believed, things may have gone further between the pair.

Jonny’s philosophy is to listen, focus, train hard and enjoy. Sounds like a winning combination and could explain his success in the New Zealand National Latin Champs. His ultimate goal is to train future New Zealand champions, just as his teacher Donna Dawson, a former DWTS judge, trained him for success.

Dance teacher Jonny recently made his way onto David Hartnell's Best & Worst Dressed List for 2007.

Tu Te Puehu is a sports programme aimed at inspiring youth into making healthy lifestyle decisions by role modeling top NZ athletes. The current series is played on TV3, Sunday mornings and replayed on Maori Television, Saturday evenings. Previous series have profiled the likes of Michael Campbell, Benji Marshall, Ben Fouhy, Marty Roestenberg, Jossi Wells, Brent Newdick and Shane Cameron. Tu Te Puehu is presented in both Maori and English.

Photos: TVNZ

Monday, 5 November 2007

NZ's Best & Worst Dressed Celebs

David Hartnell's Best & Worst Dressed List 2007 has been published in this week's NZ Woman's Weekly and as usual Miss Prozac wonders how he chooses the best dressed. Does he throw a dart at a board and pick the names out of a hat? The "supreme winners" are elegant dressers, and a decent bit of eye candy but some of the other contenders for Best Dressed are boring and umimaginative in their choice of clothes.

Best Dressed Woman:
Former Miss Universe and Dancing with the Stars champion Lorraine Downes

Best Dressed Man:
Hunky newsreader Eric Young

Also on the Best Dressed List

  • Singer Hollie Smith who could only be well dressed if she covered those hideous tatts
  • Pebbles Hooper, who dresses like some preppy school girl. Oh hang on a minute. She is a school girl.
  • Singer Brooke Fraser who is so beautiful she could make a sack look attractive - which is handy because some of the clothes she wears bear a stunning resemblance to paper sacks
  • Breakfast/Sunrise hosts Pippa Wetzell & Carly Flynn
  • The recently engaged MTV Presenter and Model Amber Peebles also makes the list of stylish dressers and deservedly so but the pink leopard print dress in the accompanying photo has to be the ugliest thing Miss Prozac has ever seen her wear. It makes her look dumpy and frumpy.
  • TV One's cute weather presenter Tamati Coffey
  • Boring Bob Parker
  • Lorraine Downe's partner Martin Crowe
  • Shelton Woolright. Sigh. If lime green sneakers and a hoodie qualify one for the best dressed list then it's time for David Hartnell to hand over his crown to someone with 20/20 vision
  • Shortland St actor Ben Mitchell who would like good in anything, and even better sans clothes
  • Trendy Dancing with The Stars pro dancer and teacher Jonny Williams

paul holmesFashion Boo Boo award
Topping the worst dressed list is TV presenter Paul Holmes

Also making the worst dressed list:
  • Publicity Hound Nicky Watson
  • Journo Ingrid Leary
  • TV personality Louise Wallace
  • Lynda Topp (Camp Mother). Boo hiss. Miss Prozac likes Camp Mother and thinks her tacky clothing great comedy
  • Labour MP Ruth Dyson
  • Radio DJ Pauline 'Polly' Gillespie
  • Weather presenter Jim Hickey
  • Reality TV contestant John Horse McLeod
  • Muso and Pop's Ultimate Star judge Peter Urlich
  • TV presenter Mark Sainsbury
  • Comedian Te Radar
  • Radio and TV presenter Marcus Lush

Photos: TVNZ, infonews.co.nz

Monday, 30 July 2007

Bid on a night of dinner and dancing with Megan Alatini



Megan "I'm not cocky" Alatini
and Jonny Williams from Dancing with the Stars, are offering to take you and a partner for a night of dinner and dancing to raise funds for Auckland City Mission. Bidding currently stands at $196, which is a bargain when you consider they are offering meals of up to $250.

Bidding closes tonight at 8:45pm.

The auction to spend an afternoon with Pop's Ultimate Star judge Peter Urlich to watch The Warriors sold for $700.

Related Stories:
Megan's ache for the homeless & other DWTS Gossip

Wednesday, 25 July 2007

DWTS Gossip 25 July 07

Dancing with the Stars judge, Brendan Cole, is romancing a doctor!
According to The People, Alex is a skin specialist who is enjoying public displays of affection with our Brendan Cole in London night spots.

How much is a celeb worth?
Recently we posted about celebs offering their services to help Auckland City Mission fundraising efforts. The hot ticket was Aja Rock, but Hayley Holt and others have also raised substantial sums for charity. Good on them!

  • Hayley Holt 1-2 hour Snowboarding lesson sold for $600
  • Rebecca Nicholson 1 hour dancing lesson sold for $320
  • Aja Rock, Treasure Island contender, flight to Waiheke and lunch sold for $1,500
We're still waiting for the promised auction from Joe Cotton which we haven't seen yet on the listings.

Megan's ache for the homeless
In this week's NZ Woman's Weekly, Megan Alatini talks about the Auckland City Mission auctions and the heartache she feels for homeless people, promising a night of glitz and glamour if you bid to go out to dinner and dancing with her and DWTS partner Jonny Williams. Miss Prozac can't help thinking that would sound more sincere if it was the homeless people that she was taking out to dinner...

Friday, 8 June 2007

This week's DWTS Gossip

Brendan Cole and Camilla DallerupBrendan Cole and Camilla Dallerup

Brendan Cole would like to have a nose op!
Brendan Cole swears he's really a nice lad. He says he's had his heart broken by women, and maybe broken a heart or two along the way but he promises he's never cheated on a woman and that he wanted his ex (dancing and romantic partner) Camilla Dallerup to keep the diamond engagement ring he bought for her. What a guy!

Brendan Cole and Camilla Dallerup

Despite his many affairs of the heart and loins he reckons he hasn't told any women he loves them for many years (unless you count his Mum). Turns out the poor lad is self conscious about his nasally voice and would consider getting a nose job. Nice guy Brendan also supports the Bubble Foundation.


Hayley Holt doesn't know her All Blacks
How celebrities get a date: When All Black captain Richie McCaw asked Holt's agent if Hayley Holt would like to go to the premiere of Oceans 13 on Wednesday night with him, Hayley said she had no idea who he was! We're still waiting to hear whether she accepted or declined the date...

In other news Hayley is one of the coaches at Snow Girls, A new extended programme of residential female-specific snowboard and ski camps at Snow Park NZ.


Why Megan Alatini supports Youthline
You have to wonder what's wrong with the Megan Alatini publicity machine that we only find out after DWTS has ended that her chosen Dancing with the Stars charity, Youthline, was chosen after she lost a cousin to youth suicide. Now that sort of news could have won her support from text voters, but instead some bright spark in publicity chose to promote Megan wearing fringed bikinis, lusting after her much younger and happily in love dance partner Jonny Williams, and pawing her hubby in the middle of photo shoots. In the end she came across as trashy, cheap and desperate.

The news that Megan has a personal interest in Youthline and the tragedy that prompted her interest in the charity could have altered viewers' perceptions. Instead we were given the plucky older Suzanne battling injury and past tragedy against the cheap trashy upstart in skimpy clothes. Is it any wonder that Suzanne Paul won the vote?

I suggest Megan sacks her agent and gets someone who knows how to brand and position her to wide appeal. Fellow TrueBliss member Keri Harper insists that Megan is a fun and sweet person. However, there was nothing to suggest this in her publicity. Instead she was portrayed as smug, over-confident and sexy. I'm not saying sexy is bad - but there's trashy sexy and classy sexy. Suzanne had the classy sexy sewn up with her leggy dancing display.

April's cancer link
April Ieremia's mum has been battling breast cancer for several years leading April to choose the Breast Cancer Foundation as her chosen charity for DWTS.


Suzanne celebrates with an early night
After her Dancing with the Stars win and celebrated by heading to bed early with a hot water bottle and a cup of tea. She has put forward two ideas for television shows staring her fine self and is waiting to hear back. Our advice to TVNZ - get Hayley Holt to front your next television show. Right now she's the hottest thing in lycra.

Candy Lane's column
There was nothing from Candy Lane this week. Perhaps she stepped on a few too many toes last week when she revealed that one DWTS celeb has to fortify themselves with a drinkie or two before the show and two sets of couples are rumoured to be doing the horizontal Rhumba.

Related Stories:
Best and Worst of Dancing with The Stars NZ
Brendan Cole and Candy Lane Jive
Holmes confirms horizontal tango
Why Megan Alatini should be this year's DWTS champion
Elimination Interview with Keri Harper
Hayley Holt voted NZ's Sexiest Woman

Images: TVNZ, Himawari, Igor Timoshenko
Sources: NZ Herald Sideswipe 8/6/07, Star celebrity magazine, New Idea, NZ Women's Weekly

Sunday, 3 June 2007

Best and Worst of Dancing with The Stars NZ

Stefano Olivieri and Suzanne Paul Paso Doble
Drum roll please. Here are our awards for this season’s Dancing With The Stars best and worst moments

Sizzle award
New Zealand’s sexiest woman, Hayley Holt, for that Rhumba.

Best judge’s quote
Craig Revel-Horwood: It’s enough to turn a gay man straight
(about Hayley Holt wrapping herself around Brendon Pongia during their Rhumba)

Cheek(s) award
Michael Laws for looking unaccountably hot wiggling his butt during the Jive

Best mascara award

  • Runner up: Frank it’s not macho to wear makeup Bunce
  • Winner: Michael Laws. What were the make-up gals thinking?

Best Tango
Brendan Cole and Craig Revel-Horwood sniping at each other throughout the competition

The Rodney Hide memorial ‘you call that dancing’ award

  • Runner up: Paul Holmes’ Thriller Paso Doble
  • Winner: Suzanne Paul’s freestyle dance. Since when does spending half the dance being twirled by your partner followed by manic running around the floor qualify as dancing?
To quote Michael Laws
Stefano Olivieri carried Suzanne for most of her final dance. If I had known you could score `10s' for looking decorous rather than dancing, I would have piggy-backed my partner Lauren for the entire 90 seconds. It may have launched a thousand fetish fantasies but, gee, it might have worked.

Best costume award
This was a toughy. So many gorgeous costumes but in the end the Paso Doble won it.

April & CsabaApril & Csaba
Tackiest costume
  • Runner up: Megan Alatini’s fruity bikini in the Samba
  • Winner: April Ieremia’s “naff” High School musical costume

Best necklace
Where to begin? Joint first equal Carol-Ann Hickmore and Krystal Stuart

Taking one for the team award

  • Special Merit award: Rebecca Nicholson for dancing with both Tim Shadbolt and Paul Holmes
  • Runner up: Michael Laws for dancing with a broken toe. Well he moaned about that a bit, so really the award is for being savvy enough to auction off the funny metal thing he stubbed his toe on and earn an extra $800 for his charity.
  • Winner: Krystal Stuart for dancing the Paso Doble with a broken toe and never uttering a word about the injury. Also ongoing bravery for dancing with Rodney Hide and taking the blame for the famous spear tackle fall.

Courage under fire:
Michael Laws for consistently smiling while being systematically taken apart by judge Craig Revel-Horwood

Charity we heard the most about:
The Suzanne Paul help me resurrect my career charity


The ego has landed award:
  • Runner up: Paul Holmes for thinking his Paso Doble was good
  • Winner: Megan Alatini for failure to accept constructive criticism from the judges without backchat

Most improved award
Jonny Williams – yes I know this is about the celebs but that boy can move and compared to last year he has improved in leaps and bounds.

Best dancer
Stefano Olivieri. How could you fail to win with that set of legs swivelling beside you? Expert, elegant and expressive Stefano Olivieri is one of the best dancers I have had the pleasure of watching. And who couldn’t love that gorgeous big smile?

WTF moment
  • Special Merit Award: Megan Alatini for telling the woman’s magazine how she has a ‘secret’ crush on dance partner the week after sharing her passionate bedroom secrets with another woman’s magazine the previous week
  • Runner up: Megan Alatini for telling partner Jonny Williams she couldn’t afford to pay him for ongoing dancing lessons. Say what? Didn’t she just get paid to do DWTS? Isn’t her husband on a lucrative playing contract in Japan? She’s not exactly destitute.
  • Winner: Suzanne Paul for telling Brendan Cole to “get over himself” and “go have a word for himself” because he dared to do his job and judge her.

Best pins
  • Runner up: Suzanne Paul
  • Winner: Candy Lane
These women are both similar ages, and wowser, would you take a look at those legs!

Best clanger
Candy Lane for continually muffing her scripted comedy. But we have to give credit (a) to Candy Lane for improving from season 1 and (b) to the script writers for reducing all that scripted nonsense

Smut award
Can only go to the ditzy Alison Leonard who has never heard a word she can’t imbue with some sexual meaning including telling