Court keeps abreast of bikini bust-up

THE Hamilton streaker, well, the semi-streaker Lisa Lewis, who showed off her designer bikini during the first test between Ireland and New Zealand is under threat of a court injunction.

A former long-term boyfriend has taken exception to the fact that she intends auctioning off the bikini for sale on a website, in the hope of emulating the price for a handbag used by former All Black captain Tana Umaga on colleague Chris Masoe recently.

Masoe allegedly assaulted a patron of a nightclub; Umaga picked up a handbag and clobbered him with it , and the owner of the bag sold the lot on a website for a staggering €12,000.

Now, Ms Lewis says she only wants to recoup the cost of her court appearance, but her recently jilted boyfriend thinks otherwise.

He claims to have bought her the bikini and paid for the price of a breast enlargement. He sees no reason why she should benefit financially when he reckons to have paid up to €40,000 lavishing her with gifts.

The combined price of the breast enlargement and bikini, he says, is about €7,500 and he wants to recoup some of his expenditure. He was particularly aggrieved when he read that she stripped off to impress her new man who had accompanied her to the game!

The unidentified jilted one, a Waikato trucker, said: “Counting the boobs and bikini, she had over $15,000 worth of my gifts out there. If she makes money, I want my money back.”

* RUGBY League isn’t everyone’s favourite game, but even those who have other preferences couldn’t but be enthralled by the Australian State of Origin series between New South Wales and Queensland. NSW have ruled the roost for the last three years. It would be unprecedented for any of the sides to win four in-a-row, and so Wednesday night’s game between the two was eagerly awaited.

All the money was on NSW but it turned out to be a huge victory for Queensland, who now bring the series to a crunch third game in Sydney on July 4.

* FORMER All Black international Eric Rush has been a regular blood donor over the years – driven by hunger in his student days. Rush admits his motives were selfish.

* “I was a student, and when you gave blood, the authorities gave out sandwiches and biscuits. I would have preferred hot dogs and chips, but that was the way it was.”

But now, Rush, whose father died recently of leukaemia, has taken a different view. He’s not cash starved any more, and actually declined the full lunch offered to him this week when he gave another donation. “I’m not as hard up as I used to be; let them give the lunch to someone who is,” he said.