Suzanne's new man - 'I'M PART OF AN ODD COUPLE!'

The infomercial queen is sold on her latest venture with a talented popstar

- Fleur Guthrie

In Suzanne Paul’s home office, competing for wall space – among her many framed Weekly covers – hangs a small corkboard filled with photos and glossy magazine cutouts of, well, a luminous life.

There are the inspirational quotes you’d expect, along with pictures of cruise ships, balmy locations, products she likes, Suzanne windsurfing in a bikini in the ’80s (it’s a reminder to stay fit) and scenes from her past TV triumphs.

Just like in the iconic Australian movie The Castle – where anything worthy goes “straight to the pool room” – in Suzanne’s house, anything that sparks her imagination goes straight onto her manifestation board.

“I look at it every day!” she says, chatting from the coastal home she shares with husband Patrick Kuhtze, 62, and rescue dog Matty, north of Auckland. “It fills me with energy and inspiration. I had a photo of an ocean view on there. So when we were looking to rent a new house and I walked into this one, then saw the Pacific Ocean from the deck, I turned to Patrick and went, ‘Hello, this was on the board!’

“I don’t call it luck when things happen and I get asked to host a cruise, for example, because I’ve got these things in my mind all the time and I hustle for them. A picture of the ship had been on my board for five years!

“The car out the front was on the board, even when there was no chance of me affording it for a long time. Writing another book had been on it.” (We’ll get to that later.)

This year, Suzanne, 69, also had a picture of a chat show up and initially envisioned herself as the Kiwi alternative to Oprah Winfrey, interviewing stars for a television series.