INDIRA STEWART 

JOURNALIST / BREAKFAST ON ONE's NEWSREADER

TONGAN / FIJIAN 

Indira Stewart has taken her new role as a Breakfast on One newsreader with both hands and made it her own - we love the Pacific flavour that she brings to breakfast television and having a hard hitting Pacific Journalist leading key interviews.

Watch the full interview below, click the square at the bottom of the screen to bring it up full screen - 

Keepin it Fresh at the World School 7s with highlights from the competition that included teams from Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Canada, Australia and more held here in New Zealand.

Showcasing up and coming talent from high schools around the world.

Samoan actor KJ Apa - he currently stars as Archie on Riverdale & will also star in the upcoming Netflix  romantic comedy The Last Summer which comes out on the 3rd of May. 

He visited the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon recently and talked about what he'll miss most about his Riverdale co-star Luke Perry and explained his photo tribute he posted on Instagram after his sudden death in the video above.

He also chops it up with Jimmy about his love of romantic comedies and touring with his rock band Legend.

Check it out in the vid below 

VINCE HARDER 

SINGER / SONG WRITER / MUSICIAN / ARTIST 

SAMOAN 

I was born and raised in West Auckland and lived there for the first half of my school life.…more

by Rosa F.F, Media Design School student 

The old brown woman struggles slightly as she straightens her almost frail frame to a stand. Her dry cracked lips part slightly to send up a quick thank you, seemingly to the air above, as she retrieves the empty disposable coffee cup that lay misplaced on the staffroom floor, carelessly tossed without thought, waiting for someone to do their job.

Soon, she thinks to herself tiredly. Toeitiiti.

Only two more weeks of this hardship and she would be able to finish up her thirty-something years at her tedious cleaning job.

Soon she would be able to collect her pension and finally rest at home without having to worry about being jolted in fear that she had overslept.

Her youngest daughter was finally working to help support their large aiga, particularly with the ever increasing rent and bills, so things would be much different now.…more

LUKE AIONO 

BRUNO MARS' GUITARIST 

SAMOAN 

I grew up in Long Beach, California.  My parents were musicians so music has always been a big part of my life.  They're both Samoan, born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand but they migrated to California in the 80s.  I started taking classical piano lessons at 6 until I switched to guitar in high school and taught myself from then on out. I played a lot in LA clubs/jam sessions during and after high school and shortly thereafter got asked to play for Kenny Lattimore + Chante Moore as well as the hip hop artist Nas.…more

City Kickboxing owner & coach Eugene Bareman talks to Combat TV about Junior Fa, Joseph Parker and Kevin Barry.

ALI FOA'I 

ACTOR/WRITER 

NIUEAN / TUVALUAN / TOKELAUAN & AMERICAN SAMOA

Fakaalofa lahi atu, Taloha ni, Talofa, Kia ora, Asalaam alykum!

I am Ali Foa’i and I am an actor slash writer born and raised in West Auckland, currently residing in Te Aro, Wellington. I am Niuean, Tuvaluan, Tokelauan and American Samoan, a proud child of the Pacific.

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You're currently in rehearsals for the show 'MoodPorn' can you tell us a bit about it and why you were attracted to the role?

MoodPorn (showing at Bats Theatre, Wellington April 23-May 4) is a brand new play by Wellington based Filipino writer Matthew Loveranes about two old uni friends catching up one night and spilling secrets and drama! It’s very melodramatic but anchored in a hypnotically poetic and modern script. My character Atlas is a migrant to New Zealand, his family moving for a better life which as a PI I could relate to.…more