Shorty & Seven Sharp stars ‘WE’VE FOUND TRUE AROHA!’
Oct 03, 2021
4 minutes
Words: Florence Hartigan.
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There’s only one woman for former Shortland Street star Mauri Oho Stokes. Not only is the actor head over heels in love with his partner Te Rauhiringa Krystal-Lee Brown, but the Seven Sharp reporter and producer is also his first-ever girlfriend!
‘He’d only speak to me in Maori. That beautiful gesture stole my heart’
“I hadn’t really been interested in having a girlfriend,” shares Mauri, 30, who’s now playing villain Thomas in bilingual Maori Television drama . “But since I was brought up in kura kaupapa [Maori immersion school], and my parents would always take my sister and I to our marae, eventually I realised I was looking for a partner I’d be
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