{"id":331715,"date":"2026-03-16T03:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/331715\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T03:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:39:09","slug":"chris-hipkins-rejects-social-media-allegations-from-ex-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/331715\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hipkins rejects social media allegations from ex-wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/f87e20f7-9a5c-4fdd-a0ca-90ad59252111.png\" alt=\"Thomas Coughlan\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/thomas-coughlan\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Coughlan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Political Editor\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>16 Mar, 2026 01:29 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Labour leader Chris Hipkins has rejected allegations his ex-wife made on social media. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Labour leader Chris Hipkins\u2019 ex-wife has made a series of allegations about his conduct, suggesting they contradict the party\u2019s electioneering on \u201chealth, houses and jobs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hipkins has rejected the allegations from his ex-wife Jade, which were posted to a private Facebook page but have since been taken down. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         None<br \/>\n         of the allegations involve Hipkins engaging in unlawful activity.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">In a statement, Hipkins said: \u201cI reject the allegations entirely and don\u2019t intend to make any further comment.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Chris and Jade Hipkins married in 2020. They separated in 2022. Photo \/ Katie Kidman\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Chris and Jade Hipkins married in 2020. They separated in 2022. Photo \/ Katie Kidman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Coughlan Political Editor\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 16 Mar, 2026 01:29 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1443,26676,3276,34749,178107,178108,105649,71,42,134,13480,2273,232,6721,13489,1362,1073,43,7234,22049,1963,1072,53316,8229,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-331715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-about","tag-allegations","tag-chris","tag-conduct","tag-contradict","tag-electioneering","tag-exwife","tag-from","tag-headlines","tag-health","tag-hipkins","tag-houses","tag-jobs","tag-labour","tag-leader","tag-made","tag-media","tag-news","tag-partys","tag-rejects","tag-series","tag-social","tag-suggesting","tag-they","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331715","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=331715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}