Jeremy Wells

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name = Jeremy 'Newsboy' Wells


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birthname = Jeremy Wells
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Jeremy 'Newsboy' Wells (born in 1977 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a New Zealand television personality, most famous as the host of TVNZ's satirical news show, "Eating Media Lunch". Wells was expelled from the exclusive Wanganui Collegiate School and later attended St Paul's Collegiate in Hamilton. He is also a co-host of "The Saturday Special" radio show with Steve Simpson on New Zealand radio station bFM. Wells first appeared on television in 1997 on MTV. He later appeared with Mikey Havoc, as Newsboy, on Havoc's television show. After the conclusion of "Havoc", Wells and Havoc went their separate ways - Havoc fronting his own show on TV3 and Wells his for TVNZ, Eating Media Lunch. He also presented the satirical The Unauthorised History Of New Zealand in 2005 and an episode of Intrepid Journeys in 2007.

Wells' impassive, deadpan style has been called "newsnight-of-the-living-dead" by the New Zealand Listener, though the same article claimed "Wells would be compelling viewing reading the phone book." [ [http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3471/tvradio/7488/positively_shocking.html 'Positively Shocking' "New Zealand Listener" November 18-24 2006] pp. 71] He became notorious in November 2003 when an episode of "Eating Media Lunch" featured a spoof of the current affairs programme "Target", who often would use hidden cameras to catch less than reliable tradepersons or workers. In it, the spoof depicted two actors as camera technicians in someone else's home and being caught on hidden camera in various degrading acts such as masturbation, defecation (on a kitchen stove), injecting and smoking drugs and phone sex. Also, one technician stripped naked and covered himself with cling wrap, and later urinated on the other technician. The spoof attracted several complaints from viewers, however in March 2004 the BSA (Broadcasting Standards Authority) of New Zealand found the episode had not breached any guidelines.

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* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0920265/ IMDB entry (possibly incomplete)]
* [http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3317/features/1148/jeremy_wells.html NZ Listener, 6 Dec 2003 - Felicity Monk eats media lunch with Jeremy Wells]
* [http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/497100/974227 Jeremy Wells on Intrepid Journeys (TVNZ website)]