Paul Henry stars in Air New Zealand video
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He may not have his own US reality show or MediaWorks deal (yet), but controversial broadcaster Paul Henry has landed a gig starring in Air New Zealand's latest safety video.
The clip is fronted by US fitness pixie Richard Simmons.
In one scene (at 2min 29 sec), Mr Henry says into a mobile phone "I'm on a plane full of crazies."
Mr Simmons walks by and shuts Mr Henry's laptop, saying "stop broadcasting, buddy".
TVNZ stopped Mr Henry broadcasting in October last year.
The immediate cause of the Breakfast host's dismissal was a question to John Key. Mr Henry asked the prime minister if then governor general Sir Anand Satyanand would be replaced by someone who looked and sounded like a New Zealander.
The affair prompted a number of media outlets to repeatedly replay Mr Henry's greatest hits, including his school-boy delight in mis-pronouncing Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit’s name as “Dick Shit”, calling singer Susan Boyle retarded, laughing at a female Greenpeace advocate's "moustache" and calling gays "unnatural".
Everybody's favourite imp gives an assured performance in the Air New Zealand clip, but NBR's all-time Henry-on-YouTube favourite remains his Qantas Media Award acceptance speech (kids, ask you parents first):
NBR staff
Mon, 28 Mar 2011
Mon, 28 Mar 2011
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Paul Henry stars in Air New Zealand video
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