New Zealand radio and television host (born 1969)
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]
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