Wallace Chapman | |
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Born | Walesi Leslie Chapman 1969 (age 54–55) |
Career | |
Show | Back Benches |
Station | Prime TV |
Network | Sky TV |
Time slot | 10:30–11:30pm Wednesday |
Show | Sunday Morning |
Station | Radio New Zealand National |
Network | Radio New Zealand |
Style | Political commentator |
Country | New Zealand |
Wallace Leslie Chapman (born 1969) is a New Zealand radio and television host.
Chapman attended Nelson College from 1982 to 1986. [1]
He began his broadcasting career while a student at the University of Otago with student radio station Radio One. After moving from Dunedin to Auckland, he joined the staff of Radio 95bFM before changing to Kiwi FM where he hosted The Wallace Chapman Drive. [2]
In December 2013 it was announced that he would be the new host of Sunday Morning on Radio New Zealand National, taking over from Chris Laidlaw. [3]
In January 2019 he began hosting Radio New Zealand's late afternoon current affairs show, The Panel. [4]
Between 2008 and 2017, he co-hosted the political television show Back Benches . [5]
Chapman knew and still knows David Bain, a man accused of killing his own family in 1994, but found not guilty by a jury in 2009. [6]
Chapman suffers from Gaucher's disease, a genetic disease which has left him with weakened hip joints. [7]
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