Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Paul Henry chats about his new show 'The Traitors NZ'

Episode Date: August 6, 2023

Jono and Ben talk to Paul Henry about his brand new show, The Traitors NZ.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. Tonight on 3, there's a brand new reality show, looks really really good, it's called The Traitors, and it's kind of like a murder mystery show. A game unlike anything New Zealand has ever seen. Welcome then, to The Traitors. 19 Kiwis Anyone else looking for love on this? Chasing one added prize I would quite like to have that

But in amongst the faithful I would choose to be a traitor I think they have an advantage in this game Are the Traitors And we're joined by the host of the show now Paul Henry, good morning Good morning Lovely to see you

Love catching up. He said he wanted to go back. You said you were in retirement or semi-retirement, weren't you? Yeah. What I said when I left was I will never again do daily, weekly or monthly TV. Gotcha. Or anything daily, weekly. Monthly TV.

You won't even commit to one a month. No, because you know yourself, you know, if you do one a month, you might as well do one a week because the amount of effort, you know, to do one a month. Yeah. If you're doing one a week, you might as well do one a week because the amount of effort you know to do one a month yeah if you're doing one a week you might as well do one a day so you kill me now so the show's called uh traders and it's based on as you say a hugely successful show overseas and a lot of sort of lying and sort of conniving you know behind the scenes from the contestants as well and probably yourself too as a host it's no i don't lie about anything my job is to run the game this is one of the things i love about it once it starts you can't stop it for the crew i mean this is a 40 camera shoot you know this was a huge production you're in a lodge in the middle of nowhere 19 contestants you start with and you press go and

that production just rolls and it has to roll for the following 10 days until the end. Oh, non-stop? Has to, has to be. It's all in real time. And the contestants, they're not starved for food. We feed them very well. They're not starved for accommodation. We accommodate them very well,

but they are starved for anything that they can trust and anyone that they know. The only time they're allowed to mingle with each other is when we're shooting it. As soon as we we stop shooting they are locked in blacked out rooms that's where they sleep in their own minds until we wake them up or until we finally unlock the door let them out and allow them to mingle again and then construct the next day there's a fine line between kidnapping and reality tv. Very, very fine line. So you don't do any lying as the host, you're saying,

but I wanted to put you on the test here now, Paul Henry. So I've got three statements about Paul Henry. Two is truths and one's a lie. Now, Jono, you need to work it out. Won't I instantly know? You'll know, but Jono doesn't know. Hopefully you'll know. Jono needs to work out which is the lie and which are the two truths.

Oh, I like this. Okay, Paul's real name is Paul Henry Hopes. Paul is a collector of fine watches and owns over 100 watches. And Paul, one of his first jobs was working with David Attenborough on the BBC. Now, he's not giving anything away. So what does Jono have to do? Hopefully one's a lie and two's the truth. So Jono needs to work it out.

Are you going to ask Paul any questions you want? Can I just say too, Paul explained the format of his show beautifully. Yours has been a little bit shaky. This is not a 40 camera shoot. I'm still finding it hard to follow. And if he can ask me any questions, why wouldn't he just say which one's a lie? Okay, well you can do that. Do I come onto your show and tell you how to write yours? No, why wouldn't he just say which one's a lie? Okay, well, you can do that.

Do I come onto your show and tell you how to write yours? No, you don't. No, fair enough. No, Ben, fair enough. I'm going to go. You just go off the straight. Okay. I do know Hope is your real surname.

Hopes. Hopes? Well, it's not now, but it was. Okay, there you go. So that's the truth. I know you did time overseas, didn't you, broadcasting for many years? I did. I'm going to say the David Attenborough one. Yeah, he's right. he's right oh wow so you don't collect watches i'm quite keen on it though

now just you've sparked an interest in collecting fine watches i once went into a shop there was a shop that i went into with this woman with enormous fake breasts in america in redondo beach in america what shop yeah and in the And I went in because in the window they had a Rolex Explorer in its original box. Now Rolex brought out the Explorer as part of the promotion of Sir Edmund Hillary's Ascent of Everest. And I thought, boy, that's something to get. This is one of my biggest regrets in my entire life because it was, I think it was something like 4,000 US or something like that, which at the time seemed, you know, how do you know if that's the right amount or not?

But subsequently I've discovered that was like giving it away. Oh, really? And I didn't buy it. I went and I tried it on and I looked at the box and it just looked like something, and I really wanted it. Got bamboozled by those enormous fake rings. I quite literally got bamboozled. So you worked with David Embraer, though.

Yeah, it's the truth. Yeah, I did. Lovely gentleman. Yeah, I mean, I was Krill when I worked with him. I was his projectionist for a while. So he would sit there, but he was like Jesus Christ, and I was like dust. Dust under the feet of Jesus.

He would walk over me in his bare feet on his way to the screening room. And I would go, oh, step harder, Mr. Applebrush. Paul Henry, we do love catching up with you. This new series on three looks very fascinating. I'm sure it's going to be huge. Thanks for your time. Brilliant. Thank you, guys.