All about Sebastian van der Zwan
He’s mad about music, movies and the people who make them, so it should be no surprise Seb is our mag’s resident gossip guru and entertainment expert. Of Dutch descent, he started at the Weekly as a subeditor in 2003, shortly after completing a Bachelor of Communication Studies at the Auckland University of Technology.
When he’s not interviewing actors, reviewing records or schmoozing celebs, Seb can often be found planning his next overseas adventure. Since joining the team, this intrepid globetrotter’s explored destinations as exotic as Easter Island, Peru, the Galapagos, Brazil, Mexico and Japan.
Often these holidays are based around Seb’s other passion – animals. Almost everything he owns is covered in zebra print and dedicated viewers of Animal Planet may have seen him diving with great white sharks or filming elephants in the reality series Unearthed: Film School Wild. And, yes, that was him making a cameo in the second season of Outrageous Fortune. You’ll be pleased to know he’s a better writer than he is an actor.
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My young granddaughter was staying with me overnight and in the morning, I went into her room wearing my favourite fluffy pink housecoat. “Grandma,” she said, “you look just like Madame Butterfly!” Surprised, I said, “How do you know about Madame Butterfly?” She replied, “It’s the name of our school pig.” As you can imagine, I was a little despondent about this.
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