KURA FORRESTER 'I'M HAVING A BABY...WITH A FAN!'
Woman’s Day Magazine NZ|September 25, 2023
The Kiwi comedy queen opens up about her lucky new man, freezing her eggs and life after Shorty
Donna Brookbanks
KURA FORRESTER 'I'M HAVING A BABY...WITH A FAN!'

The day after our glam Woman's Day photo shoot, Kura Forrester is snuggled up on the couch of her West Auckland apartment with her dog Tui licking her face. She pretends to vomit at the cuteness of her beloved white cavachon, but this just gives him the zoomies.

"I knew this would happen!" she exclaims in mock irritation, jumping up to fill one of his toys with peanut butter to distract him while we chat. "This will shut him up. I'm such a good mum, eh?"

The 38-year-old former Shortland Street and Taskmaster NZ star, who's of Ngāti Porou descent, is getting in some parenting practice it would seem. Having been single for "the longest time", Kura is over the moon to have moved in with her partner of six months, Daniel Byrne, 38, whom she met on Bumble in March.

"He's a Shortland Street fan and he thought I must be a bot!" she laughs, adding that he couldn't believe his luck when it turned out she was real.

It might seem like they're moving fast, but Kura insists, "Us both being a bit older, we were in the same life position - and you know how everyone says, 'When you know, you know'? Well, we both just felt like that. We did all those things you usually do in a relationship but just sped them up. When you're pushing 40, you may as well!"

Kura is open about having always wanted kids. Earlier this year, pre-Daniel, she bought herself a birthday present of an appointment at a fertility clinic.

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