What happened to Christchurch's Wizard? | New Zealand Today

Guy goes in search of the Wizard of New Zealand - A real life wizard who blessed the streets of Christchurch for decades with good cheer and fun wizardy spells. He was even knighted!
But somewhere in the last decade, the Wizard went missing from the public eye. Rumours speak of a plot to silence him! Where is he now? Will it be possible to track him down…?

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[BeansOnToast]

It truly is a blessing to have real, hard-hitting journalism in these divisive times! All the big mainstream sources are too cowardly to cover events as raw as this! Keep it up, Guy!

[claudLO]

he was still sexist... "but we didn't have time to listen to a woman" I almost choked on my pie

[KiwiloloActually]

The Wizard is so compelling because you really can't ever tell how serious he is being. His whole career has kind of been about trolling people so who knows what he really thinks...

[rachelcookie]

I was watching a random video a couple days ago that wasn’t related to New Zealand at all when a photo of the Christchurch wizard popped up and since then I’ve been wondering what happened to him because I haven’t seen him in town in ages. This video came at the absolute perfect time.

[pim]

You've outdone yourself with this one, Guy.

[seanbear]

He's right you know. I saw a woman turn my mate Nigel into a newt. Pure evil.

[genepoole]

Fearless journalism. Thanks for keeping us up to date!

[Randy-nbfw]

"and why isn't weed legal yet?"

[souljabob]

how the heck have I lived in Christchurch for 20 years and not known there was a Kate Sheppard memorial?...

[crimsonchaos]

if NZT is in any way associated with the NZ travel commission, y'all are doing a great job. This content makes me want to visit your beautiful country more than any other aspect of media that I've consumed. That includes Lord of the Rings and Flight of the Conchords combined.

[benstuart]

Can we all just take a second to appreciate that interview meeting room set-up? Classic three star conference room - the blue chairs with the silver frames, and the leftovers leaning up against the wall. The totally typical tea and coffee set-up. Proper attention to detail.

[JdeeGeekyGao]

Thought I'd seen this before. I used to sit on the steps of the cathedral back in the day after school and watch him wind up the soap box preachers. Saw him a few years ago and asked him what happened he said he retired cause he was getting older.

[williamhall]

My grandad did The Wizards drivers license test in his old Yellow backwards VW

[caveweta]

Another hard hitting doco by our best journo in NZ. I remember the Wizard BC, before Christchurch, when he had his hat and ladder in Auckland outside the CPO.

[Kingohel]

Great thumbnail, Im glad you took the advice from that comment, but it would help if you also added them to the older videos too.
Amazing episode by the way, I genuinely laughed out loud.

[patricktwo]

The Wizard has been a happy misogynist for as long as I've known him.

[marcuscrawford]

So this is why the scooters are knocked over everytime I see them lol

[swaneey]

That HR person struggling to keep it together. Great. Would NZT consider hoping the pond to see your countrymen in Australia? 82, 939 in Melbourne alone.

[mereana]

slightly unrelated, but im really liking the new video packaging. the last couple videos thumbnails have really stuck out in my feed and imo kind of match the series concept a bit better. mentioning it bc ive watched this/been pulled in twice this week lol. so well done on that, as well as the top tier investigative journalism and production, as always 👏

[bexalder]

😂 Bloody brilliant as usual Guy 🤣 I absolutely love our kiwi sense of humour, it hits ya right in the belly.