Vote 2020: Clarke Gayford Surprises Media and Residents with BBQ

Clarke Gayford, a partner of Labor leader Jacinda Ardern, spent the night at the barbecue and surprised the media and residents with some food.

Gayford has brought home-cooked food for the 20 or so residents and a dozen out-of-the-family media.

Includes fish bites made from his catch on a fishing trip with his father and brother-in-law yesterday. He has also made venison patties after killing a deer during a hunting trip.

He said the day had been relaxed.

Both he and Ardern’s parents were in Auckland for election night.

Ardern and Gayford’s daughter Neve was “struggling with bedtime,” she said.

The last election was blurry, he said, referring to Ardern’s selection as leader seven weeks before the 2017 election.

“It is a relief that we are in this place,” Gayford said of Election Day, which was delayed by the Covid outbreak in August.

Gayford has proven in the past that he is a wild man, even having his own television show called Fish of the Day with Clarke Gayford.

He even delivered food in 2017.

In 2017, Gayford shared sausages and fish bites, made from a 42kg bass that he caught off the coast of Tairua.