High-profile New Zealanders and brands have taken to social media to share doctored images of the star as part of the rising trend. <\/p>\n
Yesterday, the official All Blacks social media account shared fake images of Bieber in front of the Bledisloe Cup. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Invercargill City Council and Rotorua Lakes Council shared images of Bieber enjoying himself at several Kiwi landmarks like the Government Gardens. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been sent these photos. Not sure how legit they are, but we wouldn\u2019t be surprised if he was here. <\/p>\n
\u201cPlease respect his privacy. He\u2019s probably just trying to enjoy a cheese roll in peace,\u201d Invercargill City Council joked on Facebook. <\/p>\n
Rotorua Lakes Council took to the AI Bieber trend.<\/p>\n
Kiwi pie reviewer and influencer Petrie Apostolakis (known online as Kosmos) also shared an image beside the Believe hitmaker.<\/p>\n
\u201cWas good to meet you bro. Glad you made it over to New Zealand! Was hard keeping this one a secret! <\/p>\n
\u201cHaters will say it\u2019s AI,\u201d Apostolakis said. <\/p>\n
Tea and drink franchise Gong Cha also hopped on the social media joke, sharing photos of the pop and R&B singer enjoying a beverage. <\/p>\n
Bieber seemingly made it to yet another landmark, with Taup\u014d McDonald\u2019s sharing a fake selfie-style photo of Bieber in front of the famous plane.<\/p>\n
Taupo McDonald\u2019s even shared a selfie-style photo of Bieber in front of the famous plane.<\/p>\n
Broke Boy Taco owner Sean Yarbrough took to the trend today, leaving many fans puzzled as the photo looked real.<\/p>\n
Yarbrough was pictured alongside Bieber in front of his food truck with piles of taco boxes in his hands. <\/p>\n
\u201cTHANK YOU Justin Bieber was so glad I could bring the food truck for you and was great to meet you. HIT ME UP ANYTIME BRO,\u201d Yarbrough captioned the post.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought it [the trend] was pretty funny, so I was like, oh, I\u2019ll make one too,\u201d Yarbrough told the Herald. <\/p>\n
This comes after Bieber shared three posts with photos of himself in New Zealand. <\/p>\n
He was pictured at a clay bird shooting range, catching views in a helicopter, fishing, playing golf and speeding down dunes on a board.<\/p>\n
The photos were accompanied by pictures with friends and of beaches, dunes and night skies.<\/p>\n
Justin Bieber has posted to social media confirming he has been in New Zealand. Photo \/ @lilbieber<\/p>\n
The Herald was told that on Thursday, guests at The Duke of Marlborough in the Bay of Islands were treated to a surprise concert in the main bar.<\/p>\n
Bieber, originally from Canada, was last spotted in New Zealand in January 2025, with sightings in Queenstown and Arrowtown.<\/p>\n
At the time, a source told the Herald Bieber was understood to be in the area to attend the wedding of Kiwi model Maia Cotton and American venture capitalist Max Feldstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High-profile New Zealanders and brands have taken to social media to share doctored images of the star as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2840,74,365,98659,25725,13242,311173,156,7799,1019,17468,807,1073,157,111,139,69,1523,84123,63557,12819,5348,4625,1072,165,1142,9863,80],"class_list":["post-635021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-across","tag-after","tag-ai","tag-aigenerated","tag-bieber","tag-confirms","tag-confuses","tag-entertainment","tag-heads","tag-international","tag-justin","tag-kiwis","tag-media","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-popping","tag-scratching","tag-sensation","tag-showing","tag-singer","tag-social","tag-their","tag-trend","tag-visit","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635021","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=635021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}