Fifth Milkybar Kid Finalist Revealed
Friday 22 October 2010, 11:57AM
By The PR Shop
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The fifth Top Ten Finalist is Hinetaapora Short from Rotorua. Her interests include dancing, singing,
kapahaka, performing, and basketball.
Hinetaapora attends Maori school Te Kura O Tekoutu and is bilingual – Maori is her first language. Her
favourite subjects at school are Spanish and singing, and when she grows up she’d like to be famous
or a model. She says she would like to be the next Milkybar Kid because it sounds fun, she’d like to be famous and she really likes Milkybars.
Hinetaapora joins Dominic Burrows of Invercargill, Asher Quin of Dunedin, Sam Kirby of Christchurch,
and Natalie Olson of Wellington in the Top Ten.
MILKYBAR spokesman, Jeremy Boucher comments, “We had such a terrific response to the search,
and after a series of call backs and some very difficult decisions we’ve found our top ten. This has
been an emotional journey and although we always knew there would only ever be one MILKYBAR Kid
we never expected to see so many potential stars. It has certainly been tough to cut the contenders
down to ten hopefuls.”
After all the finalists have been revealed, from November 1 the public can then vote on the website for
the Finalist they think would be the best New Zealand MILKYBAR Kid. A panel of judges will pick the ultimate winner, who will be revealed on 19 November 2010.
The chosen child will star in the new 2011 MILKYBAR television commercial, and enter the hearts (and
lounges) of Kiwis as part of one of New Zealand’s most iconic television campaigns.