{"id":554469,"date":"2026-08-01T09:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T09:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/554469\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T09:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T09:41:10","slug":"hayley-sproull-on-her-return-to-the-dating-scene-and-new-comedy-show-sproull-on-the-prowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/554469\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayley Sproull on her return to the dating scene and new comedy show &#8216;Sproull on the Prowl&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hayley Sproull wears many hats. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Along with being one of the hosts of ZM\u2019s Breakfast show, she\u2019s a television host, a podcaster, an actor, writer, and a comedian.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s also newly single, and her recent dating escapades have led to the creation of her newest comedy show \u2013 \u2018Sproull On The Prowl\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery year I make a comedy show, and every year it gets harder to think about what the theme is going to be,\u201d she told Jack Tame. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have a lot of hardship, you know, I haven\u2019t really overcome a lot in my life \u2013 so it gets harder.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the past Sproull has done shows about things like her body, being in a long-term relationship, and what it\u2019s like being child-free by choice and living that life in your thirties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen I was like, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s next, and then I went through a massive break up.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile it is very sad to go through a life-changing breakup, there in the back of your mind, you\u2019re like, \u201cthere\u2019s your content.\u201d\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a fair bit of time since Sproull last dealt with the dating market \u201415 years to be exact\u2014 and things have changed quite a bit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLots has changed,\u201d she told Tame.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhysically for sure things have changed &#8230; but I think, like, I\u2019m so much more confident, right? \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you are very aware of what you will and won&#8217;t accept from people now. I don&#8217;t have a lot of, and I&#8217;m not looking, I&#8217;m not out there looking for a husband or anything.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m just looking for decent people to have a good time with.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s not even mentioning the dating apps, which Sproull now has extensive experience with \u2013 Tinder, Feeld, and even Raya, the dating app for the rich and famous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mentioned one of them in my show, a super famous singer-songwriter with a number one hit song that\u2019s dated lots of celebrities popped up and I swiped on him because I thought it&#8217;d be funny,\u201d she explained. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI screenshotted it because I wanted to tell everyone who I saw and the app kicks you off immediately.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN ABOVE\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hayley Sproull wears many hats. \u00a0 Along with being one of the hosts of ZM\u2019s Breakfast show, she\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,3682,1862,272272,156,272271,111,139,69,272273],"class_list":["post-554469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-comedy","tag-dating","tag-datingapps","tag-entertainment","tag-hayleysproull","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sproullontheprowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554469","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=554469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}