She agreed that only left National and Labour as possibilities. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re sort of central-ish rightish\u201d, Gillespie said of National.<\/p>\n
She argued the two major parties are \u201cthe same, just different wording\u201d, but would not reveal who she was leaning toward. <\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough I did see what everybody had to go through, with the local elections and you know, people had their billboards up and everything, I thought, \u2018God, I don\u2019t have the money to buy giant billboards\u2019,\u201d she joked.<\/p>\n
Gillespie posted on social media in August that she had met with a representative of a political party to discuss her campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had a meeting today about possibly running in next year\u2019s general election,\u201d she wrote in the post.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the bus I contemplated what I might say in the meeting. Something like, \u2018Polly. Great name for a politician?\u2019 No.\u201d<\/p>\n
She shared little about the meeting itself but said she had joked about herself door-knocking before an election, comparing herself to Hugh Grant\u2019s character in Love Actually. <\/p>\n
While she didn\u2019t say which party she met with, she confirmed it was not NZ First and concluded the post with; \u201cpolitics is rough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gillespie became a household name from her radio shows with ex-husband Grant Kereama. <\/p>\n
The Polly & Grant ZM breakfast show ran from 1991 to 2014 before they moved to The Hits. <\/p>\n
The pair subsequently hosted shows on More FM and TodayFM before its closure in 2023, which catapulted her career change.<\/p>\n
Gillespie is now focusing on mental health advocacy and has retrained as a therapist and counsellor since the end of her regular broadcasting slot.<\/p>\n
Ethan Manera<\/a> is a Wellington-based journalist covering Wellington issues, local politics and business in the capital. He can be emailed at ethan.manera@nzme.co.nz<\/a>.<\/p>\n Grace Symmans is a producer for Newstalk ZB\u2019s Wellington Mornings with Nick Mills. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She agreed that only left National and Labour as possibilities. \u201cThey\u2019re sort of central-ish rightish\u201d, Gillespie said of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1443,9516,3795,5903,26954,2753,2082,2740,2294,63878,42,63879,3223,43,1536,4762,18154,135,63877,6046,16948,12900,8145,6180,40,38,41,39,102,1530],"class_list":["post-83454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-about","tag-broadcaster","tag-broadcasting","tag-election","tag-entering","tag-eyes","tag-for","tag-former","tag-general","tag-gillespie","tag-headlines","tag-hinting","tag-legend","tag-news","tag-next","tag-party","tag-political","tag-politics","tag-polly","tag-potential","tag-representative","tag-revealing","tag-run","tag-shes","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-with","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83454","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=83454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}