3 days Ago By Jenni Mortimer, Bethany Reitsma
From Natural Glow pioneer to TV presenter to infomercial star, at 67, Suzanne Paul has done it all – now, she’s back on our screens with her second stint on Celebrity Treasure Island . Here, she tells the Herald why she jumped at the opportunity to appear on the reality TV series again and reveals the bittersweet secret to her success. The year was 2003.
Suzanne Paul was stranded on Vavaʻu in Tonga alongside Jason Gunn, Marc Ellis, and Louise Wallace to compete on Celebrity Treasure Island . The contestants were evacuated due to a cyclone in the area before Paul was eliminated halfway through the competition. Looking back on that eventful season, Paul recalls, “I was much younger then, of course.
But I don’t think I was any fitter, actually.” Speaking to the Herald from the shores of Te Whanganui-o-Hei/Cathedral Cove in the Coromandel, the infomercial star says that two decades ago, Treasure Island was a “totally different game” – so what made her say yes to going on the show a second time? “I keep asking myself the same question,” she laughs. “What was I thinking?”.
