Glen's Sporting Chance Hunting Down The Dwts Title

Why He’s Leaving It All Out on the Dance Floor

- Cloe Willetts

Standing under the lights of a buzzing television studio, Glen Osborne looks every bit the pro-dancer, gliding across the floor in sync with his Dancing with the Stars partner Vanessa Cole.

When he finishes the routine, the judges commend him and the audience applauds, all while public votes pour in for the former All Blacks icon.

But away from the glitz and glamour − not to mention the demands of juggling work and dance rehearsals − Whanganui’s favourite sportsman-turned-cop wants nothing more than to be out in the bush, pig hunting on the back of a horse.

“It’s like my personal therapy and I usually go once or twice a week, but in the last three months, I’ve only been once,” laments the former Maori TV presenter who qualified as a policeman three years ago.

“I spend a few days in the bush by myself with the dogs, otherwise I take a couple of nephews and we hunt in the full moon with the horses. To say I’m missing it is an understatement.”

When DWTS wraps up, Glen’s keen to spend his evenings at home with supportive wife Kylee (47) and their daughters Ariaana (23) and Mako (21) – plus, of course, going out hunting again!