Mikey Havoc (born c.1970), also known colloquially as Havoc (real name Michael Roberts) is a New Zealand media personality. Havoc was a DJ for 95bFM for nearly 25 years over three periods, most recently 2017-2019.

Radio

Roberts first became a DJ on the

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radio station in the early 1990s. He was on the breakfast show from 1996 to 2002, winning Best New Broadcaster at the 1997 New Zealand Radio Awards and later moved to the afternoon-evening "Drive" show. He once again took over as the breakfast show host on 4 September 2006, after previous host

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quit to pre-empt a suspected layoff. On 3 May 2010 Havoc returned to his Drive slot as

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took over the breakfast show. Havoc left the show on 3 December 2010. He returned to radio in 2012 on mainstream rock station

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weeknights 7-10pm. Havoc returned to 95bFM from 8 May 2017 to 3 May 2019 for a third stint as breakfast show host.

Music

Mikey Havoc is the lead singer of the New Zealand rock band Push Push, best known for its 1991 number one singles 'What My Baby Likes' and '

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'. During the late 1990s he owned and managed The Squid nightclub in inner-city

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TV

In the mid-nineties he moved into television on New Zealand's short lived

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channel with the 30 minute live weekday night magazine style show ''Havoc'' with his 95bFM co-worker

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. This show moved to TV 2 in an hour-long weekly format when MTV closed down. He continued on

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with the shows ''Havoc and Newsboy's Sell-out Tour'' and ''Havoc's Luxury Suites and Conference Facilities''. During the ''Tour'' in 1999, he labelled

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the gay capital of New Zealand - the mayor of Gore was quoted in the news saying Havoc would be run out of town if he ever returned. In 2002 Havoc was nominated for Best Presenter for ''Havoc Luxury Suites and Conference Facility'' in the TV Guide New Zealand Television Awards. In 2004 he moved to

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with ''Havoc Presents Quality Time''.

Personal life

In early 2006, Havoc married New Zealand actress

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of ''

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'' fame. They split in 2009. By 2009, he had more than $20,000 in traffic fines, which he chose to repay by doing community work - initially as a DJ outside the

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, until cancelled by the Department of Corrections. In April 2016 Mikey and partner Georgia Cubbon had a son, named Kyuss.

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