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TV presenter Matt Chisholm loses laptop containing book

Author
The Country,
Publish Date
Mon, 25 Jan 2021, 2:31PM
Survivor New Zealand host Matt Chisholm almost lost his work on his upcoming book after leaving his laptop behind. Photo / NZ Herald

TV presenter Matt Chisholm loses laptop containing book

Author
The Country,
Publish Date
Mon, 25 Jan 2021, 2:31PM

After a nighttime dash to Queenstown and plenty of panic, Matt Chisholm is breathing a sigh of relief.

The television presenter was left in the lurch when he lost his laptop, and the 72,000-word book he had spent months writing on it, after accidentally leaving it on the roof of his car when he left Queenstown Airport yesterday.

He did not realise until he was an hour away at his farm in Chatto Creek.

"I swore about 20 times," he said, when he realised.

But after a public appeal he was reunited with his laptop, which contains the only full draft of the autobiography he has been writing for the past two months, late last night.

A man from Cromwell found it, and Chisholm picked up from his place at 11.15pm yesterday.

"Turns out he's a big Survivor fan, but thought it could never have been mine,'' he said.

The book is due in mid-March, but he was hoping to finish it this coming week.

He had half of the draft saved on a hard drive, but the rest could have been gone for good.

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