Richard Wilkins grabs nervously at his arms earlier than lowing his voice as he speaks.

Moments earlier, the 9 Leisure Editor was gesturing wildly as he spoke of being interviewed “a very long time in the past” by fellow New Zealander and mannequin Rachel Hunter.

Nonetheless, whereas talking a few second throughout that very same interview, Wilkins’s physique language adjustments.

“Rachel Hunter, the very lovely, great and wonderful New Zealand mannequin, who was married to Rod Stewart on the time, was doing a sequence for TV,” Wilkins tells 9Celebrity within the newest episode of Dickie’s Diaries.

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The TV sequence was on New Zealanders “who’re doing OK”, Wilkins recalled..

“She did one thing with Sam Neil, Neil Finn and Russell Crowe, all the same old offenders… and myself,” he stated modestly.

The Australian-New Zealand singer-turned-journalist then recalled how midway via the interview Hunter out of the blue revealed one thing that took him off-guard. It resulted in Wilkins experiencing his first “fan boy” second.

“She stated ‘Oh, Rod’s been studying about you… he was fairly fascinated with a few issues,” Wilkins recalled.

As Wilkins speaks concerning the second, he clasped his arms and narrowed his shoulders.

“After I began out singing, I kinda half needed to be Rod Stewart,” he stated, his voice nearly a whisper.

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“You understand, the hair, I placed on a shawl, however in fact I did not have the voice, or the expertise, or the songs, or the rest. However that did not cease me eager to be Rod Stewart, and I’ll have talked about that to a few folks within the early days….” 

In Wilkins view, the Maggie Could singer appeared to have near the last word way of life.

“Travelling round, kicking soccer balls, making numerous cash, married to a phenomenal Kiwi mannequin… appeared like not a nasty choice,” he stated.

Wilkins then returned to discussing his interview with Hunter and the way, rapidly, a determine appeared, pacing in the direction of him.

It was Stewart. He walked straight as much as Wilkins with questions on the prepared.

“You need to be like me? Why would you need to be like me? … It’s kind of cheeky, is not it, saying you need to be like me?” Wilkins recalled Stewart saying.

“I stated ‘Oh, no I…’ [and] he stated, ‘No, I am simply kidding.”

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Wilkins then stated Stewart requested how issues have been going with Hunter and whether or not Wilkins was being good to her. Then he provided an invite.

“He stated, ‘Superb, come and have a drink with us afterwards,” Wilkins stated.

“And I used to be like, ‘Oh my god, that was really Rod Stewart.”

Wilkins stated he and Stewart stay “fairly good friends” to at the present time.

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