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Hilary Calvert - Source: ONE News -
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After helping oust Rodney Hide from the Act Party last month, Hilary Calvert is back in the spotlight for a very different reason.
It appears that the eyes of the Act MP are on a Dunedin building she owns, which houses massage parlour La Maison. The image of her eyes are in a billboard on the parlour's facade.
The list MP said she could not remember whose idea the sign was but that "it is not a secret of any description", The Otago Daily Times reported.
The Dunedin politician made it public knowledge when she entered Parliament late last year that she owned the Queens Garden building.
But she did not reveal her that it was her eyes that were sprawled across the top of the building until pushed for more details.
"It is my eyes on top of the building," she confirmed.
"It's just across the parapet of the building, and it isn't part at all of the branding or what the tenant at the bottom of the building is doing," Calvert said.
But Labour's Dunedin MP Clair Curran said the idea is laughable, adding people she had spoken to are simply shaking their heads.
Calvert's boss, Act leader Don Brash, was unaware of the building's image until now.
"It's a surprise to me. I guess better her eyes than most other parts of her I suppose," he said.
Calvert doe not think there is any issue with the image.
"Well it's just got my eyes. You wouldn't even know it's my eyes. It's got nothing to do with the massage parlour. People putting images of it in newspapers in the last few days have done more to promote it than I could ever have done," she said.
"I'm not from the political side of the spectrum that wants to be the moral police. I think we've had enough of that, haven't we?"
