Pauline "Polly" Gillespie is a

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radio host, formerly on

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. She co-hosted on '' The Polly and Grant Show'' Saturday mornings from 6-10am and the All-Day Breakfast show on

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with her ex-husband,

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. Gillespie and Kereama hosted the ZM breakfast show from 1991 to 2014, making them the longest-serving breakfast duo in New Zealand. The show rated well in

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, and enjoyed success across New Zealand. On 28 April 2014, Gillespie and her ex-husband launched a new show on

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, owned by NZME. They left The Hits in 2017, and moved to a Wellington weekday breakfast show on More FM that ended in June 2020. Gillespie also wrote an

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column for ''Woman's Day New Zealand'' until the magazine closed in April 2020. She has written an autobiography, titled ''The Misadventures of Polly Gillespie''. She had previously outlined her family history in an opinion article published in ''

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'' in 2016. In November 2021, Gillespie was announced as part of the lineup for MediaWorks' brand new talk radio network,

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which launched in March 2022.

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