Popular TV presenter Alison Mau, who was outed last weekend in the Herald on Sunday as being in a relationship with a woman, is now pleading with magazine gossips to leave her alone. Trashing the mags: Alison Mau with Pippa Wetzell on live TV this morning This weeks' Women's Day shows paparazzi snaps of Mau apparently heading out for a 'sleepover' with her female partner - photos which Mau now says prove someone has been "stalking me, my children, and my friends for a month now, and quite possibly more. Following me to the supermarket, to my kids' tennis, to the touch rugby, and to and from school. "In my mind that's a gross intrusion of their privacy. And frankly, it's more than a little creepy," she told viewers of TV One's Breakfast show this morning. "A vocal minority have said I'm in the public eye, it's a fair cop, and it's hard for me to disagree with you on that... but I have a question for Woman's Day editor Sarah Henry and her off-sider Katherine Milford. Perhaps you would be kind enough to let me know when this kind of thing is going to stop," she added. "Give me an idea when the dogs will be called off and me and my family can go about our business without having a creepy guy in a Corolla station wagon following us around." She concluded her self-described "rant" by tossing this week's offending women's magazines behind her. OUTING SHOCKER LGBT figures in the media industry had told GayNZ.com of their unease over last weekend's public outing of Mau, calling the Herald on Sunday article "distasteful" and even "despicable." Remarks on GayNZ.com's Forum also expressed shock at the intrusion into her private life. "Outing is wrong. She had children," read a typical comment. Mau was quizzed about her job presenting TVNZ's Breakfast news show for the cover of the latest NZ Women's Weekly, but declined to comment in the interview about rumours of her new relationship. On the video below: Alison Mau blasts magazine gossips this morning on TVOne's Breakfast programme.
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First published: Monday, 15th February 2010 - 11:27am