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Kamahl Santamaria. Photo: TVNZ / Supplied
Disgraced broadcaster Kamahl Santamaria is attempting to revive his career one year after the TVNZ scandal, by preparing to launch his own podcast.
Billed on a platform of integrity and high morals, Santamaria has uploaded a one-minute trailer podcast for RE:Balance - pitched as "news without the controversy, the outrage, the click-bait, or the agenda".
The Emmy-nominated TV host has not been seen for a year since quitting TVNZ in May - after just 32 days of presenting Breakfast.
TVNZ claimed Santamaria's abrupt exit was over a "family emergency", but Stuff revealed that wasn't the full story and Santamaria had quit after at least one female colleague had complained about inappropriate behaviour.
Numerous other allegations against him then emerged from his time at Al Jazeera in Doha, including a lewd email to a colleague who resorted to hiding in the toilet to avoid him at work.
The BBC followed Stuff's reporting in October, publishing an investigation which contained further allegations of sexual harassme
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Kamahl Santamaria
New Zealand journalist (born 1980)
Kamahl S. Santamaria | |
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Santamaria preparing for an interview in 2011. | |
| Born | (1980-02-14) 14 February 1980 (age 44) Auckland, New Zealand |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, news anchor |
| Years active | 1998–2022 |
| Career | |
| Station | TVNZ (2022) Al Jazeera English (2005–2022) Sky News Australia (2002–2004) TV3 New Zealand (1998–2001) |
| Previous show(s) | newsgrid; Counting the Cost; Sky Business Report with David Koch |
| Website | kamahlsantamaria.com |
Kamahl Santamaria is a New Zealand television journalist who achieved international prominence as an anchor for Al Jazeera between 2005 and 2022. In April 2022, he joined the hosting team of Breakfast, on New Zealand's TVNZ 1, but resigned abruptly after a brief period on air.[1] Allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards female employees subsequently emerged.
Early life
Santamaria was born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand. His parents were born in Aden, Yemen; his father's family originates from Goa, India. He is on
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From Middle East to middle New Zealand: Kamahl Santamaria on joining Breakfast
The new co-host of TVNZ 1’s Breakfast talks about returning home after more than 15 years at Al Jazeera, being ‘Mr Serious’, and the task of filling John Campbell’s shoes.
Kamahl Santamaria does a good John Campbell impression. “Helloo young man, how are yooouuu?” The scene is Flower Street, TV3’s Auckland headquarters, and a nervous Auckland kid called Kamahl, not yet 18 years old, is waiting outside news boss Mark Jennings’ office for a work experience interview. “I’m thinking: holy shit, John Campbell’s talking to me!” It’s 1998, and Campbell, recently thrust into the 6pm host’s seat alongside Carol Hirschfeld after what Santamaria calls “the Hawkesby fiasco”, pauses to chat and offers some advice. “Here’s what you’ve got to fucking do,” says Santamaria, embodying Campbell again, before disappointingly and sensibly taking the rest of the cheerful, slightly subversive and very expletive-ridden recitation off the record.
For Santamaria, who this week takes the Breakfast seat vacated by Campbell a
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