Wallace Chapman

Wallace Chapman
Born	Walesi Leslie Chapman 1969 (age 54–55)
Career
Show	Back Benches
Station	Prime TV
Network	Sky TV
Time slot	10:30–11:30pm Wednesday
Show	Sunday Morning
Station	Radio New Zealand National
Network	Radio New Zealand
Style	Political commentator
Country	New Zealand

Wallace Leslie Chapman (born 1969) is a New Zealand radio and television host.

Early life

Chapman attended Nelson College from 1982 to 1986.[1]

Career

He began his broadcasting career while a student at the University of Otago with student radio station Radio One. After moving from Dunedin to Auckland, he joined the staff of Radio 95bFM before changing to Kiwi FM where he hosted The Wallace Chapman Drive.[2]

In December 2013 it was announced that he would be the new host of Sunday Morning on Radio New Zealand National, taking over from Chris Laidlaw.[3]

In January 2019 he began hosting Radio New Zealand's late afternoon current affairs show, The Panel.[4]

Between 2008 and 2017, he co-hosted the political television show Back Benches.[5]

Personal life

Chapman knew and still knows David Bain, a man accused of killing his own family in 1994, but found not guilty by a jury in 2009.[6]

Chapman suffers from Gaucher's disease, a genetic disease which has left him with weakened hip joints.[7]

See also

• List of New Zealand television personalities

References

1. Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006, 6th edition
2. Matt Nippert (18 November 2006). "Wallace Chapman". New Zealand Listener. Retrieved 6 July 2009.
3. "Wallace Chapman to host Sunday Morning". Radio New Zealand. 21 December 2013. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
4. Glenn McConnell (14 December 2018). "RNZ shake up: Panel host Jim Mora and Sunday's Wallace Champan switch roles". Stuff. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
5. Glenn McConnell (30 September 2017). "Back Benches, the show where politicians debate in a rowdy pub, is dead". Stuff. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
6. Martin van Beynen (20 May 2009). "Bain: Close contact wound". The Press. Retrieved 6 July 2009.
7. Matt Nippert (18 November 2006). "Wallace Chapman". New Zealand Listener. Archived from the original on 21 October 2008. Retrieved 29 August 2024.

External links

• Wallace Chapman at IMDb