Mihingarangi Forbes Biography
Mihingarangi Forbes is a journalist, television host, and radio broadcaster from New Zealand. She has worked on shows such as Campbell Live, 20/20, and Native Affairs.
How old is Mihingarangi Forbes? – Age
She is 51 years old as of 2023. She was born in 1972 in New Zealand. Her real name is Joanne Forbes.
Mihingarangi Forbes Family – Education
Forbes grew up in Feilding, New Zealand, with her mother. Her father is a “Mori bushman” of Ngti Paoa and Ngti Maniapoto ancestry, and her mother is a Pkeh (non-Mori) relative of Kate Sheppard. Forbes’ grandma spoke English at home despite being proficient in Mori. Forbes attended Feilding High School and graduated in 1990. She attended Waikato Institute of Technology Te Ataarangi Mori-language immersion college when she was 19 or 20 and became fluent in te reo.
Is mihingarangi Forbes married? – Wife
Forbes is married to cameraman Afa Rasmussen and has four children, two of whom she shares with former partner Duncan Garner. Forbes is a major supporter of te reo and is teaching her children both Mori and English.
Mihingarangi Forbes Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $8 Million.
Mihingarangi Forbes Māori Television
Forbes joined Mori Television in 2012 as the producer of the news show Te Kea. Forbes took over as host of Mori Television’s current affairs show Native Affairs in February 2013. Forbes revealed his ignorance about the Mori health initiative Whanau Ora during a well-known 2014 interview with Jamie Whyte, a political candidate for ACT New Zealand.
Mihingarangi Forbes TV3
Forbes served as a producer for the TV3 news program 20/20. Forbes earned a Qantas award for ‘Best Reporter for Daily Current Affairs’ in 2008 while working at TV3’s current affairs show Campbell Live. During her stint on the show, she performed a controversial interview with businessman Alasdair Thompson, disputing his past remarks about women getting less money due to menstruation cycles.
Mihingarangi Forbes Radio New Zealand
Forbes joined Radio New Zealand as a specialized correspondent on Mori matters one day following her retirement from Mori TV. Forbes is presently the host of The Hui, a more-oriented current events show that airs on Three on Sunday mornings.
Why did Mihingarangi Forbes Resign? – Resignation
On June 4, 2015, Forbes announced her resignation from Mori TV through Twitter. According to media sources, her departure from Mori TV was due to growing editorial pressure on her job – her follow-up piece on the Kohanga Reo National Trust had been delayed, with no explanation. Forbes was concerned that she was “losing control” of her story.
Maori Television accused Forbes of stealing several pieces of designer clothing from the company wardrobe without permission after her resignation in 2016, breaking the story just hours before the premiere of her new current affairs show, The Hui Forbes denied any wrongdoing, confirming to reporters that the clothing had been promised to her by her former boss at the company as compensation for additional work completed.
Mihingarangi Forbes Career
In the wake of completing school, Forbes worked at a bar for a year prior to moving to Auckland. In 1993, she read local area news for Tainui Radio. Regardless of her absence of formal reporting preparing, during the 1990s Forbes was offered an entry level position with TVNZ’s Māori news program Te Karere. Following the introduction of her most memorable kid in 2001, she worked momentarily as a maker for Radio New Zealand.
In October 2013, Local Issues broadcasted an examination drove by Forbes into asserted squandering by the Te Kōhanga Reo Trust Board. The show had gotten Mastercard exchange subtleties of one board part and the head supervisor of the trust asset’s beneficent auxiliary. The day after the show broadcasted, Training Clergyman Hekia Parata and Māori Issues Pastor Pita Sharples met a few trust board individuals at Parliament to examine the charges.