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Girls wanna have fun

Do you know who the Mayor of Wellington is? We all do now.

The mayor, Tory Whanau, who will henceforth be known as “Tipsy Tory”, went out for a Friday-night dinner with a friend in the capital and arrived, according to the restaurant manager, looking like she’d had a few. She and her mate shared another bottle of wine and ate some kai.

A waiter insists she said: “Do you know who I am?” She insists she didn’t. Then she and her mate left without paying the bill.

She was still suffering the effects of her big night out the following Monday when she awoke to find her mayoral mug splashed over the. That’s what you call one hell of a hangover.

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