Clarke Gayford Biography
Clarke Gayford is a radio and television broadcaster from New Zealand who hosts the fishing documentary show Fish of the Day.
He attended Palmerston North Boys’ High School as a boarder. He enrolled at Otago University in Dunedin in 1995 to pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree before transferring to the New Zealand Broadcasting School in Christchurch. Gayford successfully pitched the student-life show Cow TV (1999) to Dunedin’s Channel 9 after graduating from broadcasting school.
Clarke Gayford Age
He is 46 years old as of 2023. He was born in 1977 in Gisborne, New Zealand. He was born as Clarke Timothy Gayford.
Clarke Gayford Wife
Gayford and Jacinda Ardern first met in 2013. Ardern was elected Labour Party leader in August 2017, and after a general election, she became Prime Minister on October 26, 2017. Gayford has been referred to as the prime minister’s spouse, despite the fact that the couple is not married. He has joined Ardern on overseas trips, including to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London, UK, in 2018.
Ardern and Gayford revealed on January 19, 2018, that they were expecting their first child in June. Their daughter was born at 4:45 p.m. on June 21 at Auckland City Hospital. It was announced in May 2019 that he and Ardern were engaged to be married. The wedding, which was supposed to take place in early 2022, was canceled owing to COVID lockdowns implemented in New Zealand. Gayford tested positive for COVID-19 on May 8, 2022. As a result, he, Ardern, and their daughter spent seven days in self-isolation. Ardern tested positive for COVID-19 on May 14, 2022.
Clarke Gayford Parents
Gayford is the eldest of three brothers and sisters. He previously dated musician Hollie Smith and Shortland Street actress Shavaughn Ruakere.
Clarke Gayford Career
In mid-April 2020, Gayford showed up on a short Wellington Paranormal video empowering individuals who were taking care of small kids during the Coronavirus pandemic. Accordingly, Public Party Individual from Parliament Brett Hudson communicated worries during a Plague Reaction Panel meeting toward the beginning of May 2020 that the video gambled politicizing the New Zealand Police. Police Chief Andrew Coster protected Gayford’s presence because he was a notable TV character who had partaken in the TV series.
On 12 Walk 2021, Gayford pulled in media consideration when he posted a tweet expressing that the New Zealand Bureau had made an “on a basic level choice” forthcoming last test brings about connection to the lifting of a Coronavirus Ready Level 2 lockdown in Auckland. Accordingly, his accomplice State head Ardern expressed that Gayford had not been advised on Bureau’s “fundamental choice” to move Auckland to Caution Level 1 that day.
Gayford said in a “blistering survey” of an article composed by previous state head Sir John Key in September 2021: “It was such a disgrace that the name throwing [and] utilization of disinformation separated his commitment into hardliner legislative issues.”
In mid-January 2022, Gayford attracted discussion in the wake of addressing a drug specialist December 2021 about getting fast antigen testing for a few performer companions. Gayford had guaranteed that there had been a change to testing direction from the Wellbeing Service that would permit them to get fast antigen testing rather than the more intrusive polymerase chain response testing. Gayford was reprimanded by the Public Party’s Coronavirus Reaction representative Chris Cleric for supposedly involving his situation as the Head of the state’s accomplice to acquire exceptional blessings for his companions. Gayford consequently apologized for “any issues or disarray” this made for drug store staff.
Since turning into the accomplice of the Top state leader, Gayford has been the objective of bogus reports that he was under police examination or due to show up in court. In light of a portion of these reports, New Zealand Police gave an assertion in 2018 that Gayford “isn’t and has not been the subject of any police request, nor has he been charged corresponding to any matter.”
In July 2022, Gayford and NZME consented to a private settlement, following comments made on NZME webcast and computerized radio channel KICK that were portrayed as “harming and false”. The repayment incorporated a secret financial total paid to Gayford.
