{"id":231158,"date":"2026-01-13T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/231158\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:16:08","slug":"seven-sharp-host-hilary-barry-finds-mould-growing-in-coffee-cup-after-return-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/231158\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Sharp host Hilary Barry finds mould growing in coffee cup after return to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">One person said: \u201cBit of mouldy coffee never hurt anyone. Kind of looks like things I find in the back of the fridge a month after Christmas usually the gravy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Another person said: \u201cIs this the adult version of the forgotten lunch box?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Another person suggested: \u201cJust pop it in the microwave and it\u2019ll be good to go again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">One person asked: \u201cIsn\u2019t that how penicillin is made?\u201d and another said: \u201cPretty sure that\u2019s how you make kombucha\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">After being asked online if the cup was one of her co-host Jeremy Wells\u2019, Barry replied, \u201cactually it is!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Barry has fronted Seven Sharp since 2018 and co-hosts the 7pm broadcast with Wells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person said: \u201cBit of mouldy coffee never hurt anyone. Kind of looks like things I find in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,184,27126,17379,10542,2026,156,11424,226,183,12022,78,1362,74060,111,139,69,33027,41167,1527,202,203,14625,61,6445,137465,4576],"class_list":["post-231158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-after","tag-barry","tag-break","tag-coffee","tag-cup","tag-discovery","tag-entertainment","tag-finds","tag-growing","tag-hilary","tag-host","tag-in","tag-made","tag-mould","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-offices","tag-presenter","tag-return","tag-seven","tag-sharp","tag-summer","tag-to","tag-tvnz","tag-unwholesome","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}