{"id":425157,"date":"2026-05-13T06:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/425157\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T06:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:33:08","slug":"melissa-leong-speaks-about-allegations-against-ex-amisfield-chef-vaughan-mabee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/425157\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Leong speaks about allegations against ex-Amisfield chef Vaughan Mabee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As a victim-survivor, it would feel like a betrayal to me if I did not say something about the situation at hand, and it&#8217;s this: We need to listen when women speak up, because it isn&#8217;t without fear, trepidation and personal cost when we do so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the situation is still unfolding, this is as far as I will speak on this subject. I trust you will all act with consideration and respect for each other. Much kindness to you all and I look forward to seeing you onscreen before too long. Melissa&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;As a victim-survivor, it would feel like a betrayal to me if I did not say something about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-425157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425157","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=425157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}