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Barrymore in NZ for good

Sun 30 Nov 2003 In: New Zealand Daily News

Embattled gay British entertainer Michael Barrymore is back in New Zealand to live, along with his Kiwi partner Shaun Davis. It was rumoured in late September that Barrymore was a considering a move to New Zealand following relentless media pressure that forced a cancellation of his last British tour after only three nights. "This is the first day of the rest of my life so I need to know how to live in New Zealand," he said yesterday. "It's like starting all over again, not just career-wise, but my whole life." Barrymore is planning a tour of the provinces, including Whangarei, New Plymouth, Hastings, Blenheim and Invercargill, tickets for which go on sale tomorrow. "It's a weird thing to have all that experience and start again,” he said of the modest size of his latest venture. “It's snakes and ladders for me, except I keep getting the big snakes. I do heavy sighs now and again, I get positive and I get disappointed. If the option of New Zealand or Australia wasn't here, I don't know what will have happened."    

Credit: GayNZ.com News Staff

First published: Sunday, 30th November 2003 - 12:00pm

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