20/20: Gin - straight up

Published: 4:49PM Thursday August 06, 2009 Source: 20/20

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Gin - straight up
Gin Wigmore - if you don't know the name you soon will. The 23-year-old from Auckland's North Shore hooked up with Smashproof earlier this year and helped create the longest running Kiwi chart topper, Brother. More recently she's been in LA recording her debut full length album with producer Mike Elizondo. That's Mike "Eminem, 50-Cent and Maroon 5" Elizondo. She's been compared with Amy Winehouse and Macy Gray and is in very real danger of becoming world famous.

Searching for Nina
A doctor and mother vanishes without trace - her husband awaits trial for murder. She was a Russian bombshell with movie star looks. He was an IT genius and self-confessed geek. They were in the midst of a nasty divorce when Nina mysteriously and suddenly disappeared. Was it murder? We put the question to Nina's husband in a frightening and disturbing gaol house interview.

A deadly diet
We all like to watch what we eat. Counting calories, nutrients and fat grams is practically a national pastime. But what happens when people go over the line, and the pursuit of healthy eating actually becomes unhealthy? Welcome to those who suffer Orthorexia - an eating disorder that stems from too much of a good thing.

A gory run-in
They ran with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain and lived to tell the tale, but only just! A cancer fright brought two brothers closer together. They beat the deadly disease and decided to flirt with death at the Running of the Bulls. Only a handful of people in history have experienced what happened to them. As they ran for their lives, side by side, they became the victims of the first simultaneous goring!

Hollywood vs reality
Hollywood's special weather effects can blow an audience right out of their seats. How real are they? Big name producers say they rely on science, but are special effects scarier than the real thing?

The best of New Zealand and international current affairs - 20/20 - presented by Miriama Kamo with reporters Sonya Wilson, Beth Roche and Hugh Hughes.

 

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