Wealthy foreigners are flocking to New Zealand, but not all Kiwis are happy about their arrival: not least locals who are fed up with their neighbour, Noel Edmonds, of Deal or No Deal and Mr Blobby fame.
Edmonds moved last year with his wife to a small village called Ngātīmoti, in the Tasman region of New Zealand’s South Island. The couple purchased a vineyard and cafe called Dunbar Estates, which they set about adapting into a pleasant English enclave called River Haven, complete with restaurant, general store, and a traditional English pub called the Bugger Inn. The Bugger Inn offers a ‘Dickens Cider’. Edmonds reckons this is ‘Kiwi humour,’ but some locals aren’t so certain. ‘It’s real Benny Hill stuff,’ one said.
‘He’s got this attitude… about how he’s improved the place and made it amazing – it was already amazing,’ one woman told New Zealand news outlet Stuff. ‘I just feel like he’s a coloniser and…he’s come in like the Lord of the Manor.
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