I wish Id never thought of it: The Blue Monkey on Suzanne Pauls back [Video]

The infomercial queen looks back on an eventful life in TV, filled with Coronation Street, The Blue Monkey and a lot of reality television.

Suzanne Paul is a New Zealand television icon. Born and raised in England, Paul worked around the world for 20 years before she arrived in Aotearoa and discovered a new beauty product called Natural Glow. When she started promoting the product on TV in 1992, Paul’s two-minute long infomercials changed the advertising landscape. Suddenly, Suzanne Paul was everywhere, the face of thousands of luminous spheres, super-suction vacuums and a glamorous gold clip that transformed both your scarf and your life. 

Paul then became a television presenter during the 1990s and 2000s, fronting primetime shows like Garage Sale, Second Honeymoon and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. She appeared in a variety of reality shows like Dancing with the Stars NZ (which she won in 2007) and City Celebrity, Country Nobody, and made cameos in showsfrom …