25 Years of Making Shit Up
One person has managed to trick the NZ media for a quarter of a century.
If you have had your own experience with Anna Wilding over the last 30 years, feel free to get in touch: davidfarrier@protonmail.com
Here is the full Pretender series:
Part I: The Beginning
Part II: Wilding vs The World
Part III: Wilding v Wikipedia
Part IV: The mysterious Matt Obolensky
Part V: The End of the Saga?
Part VI: 25 Years of Making Shit Up
Hi,
If you’ve been reading Webworm for a while, you’ll be familiar with Anna Wilding.
Between 2020 and 2021 I looked at how the New Zealander had managed to weasel her way into countless news stories over the years, often with very little proof any of it had actually happened. When I say “over the years”, I actually mean for a quarter of a century.
There was the time she was cast in a major US film, the time she was a White House Presidential photographer, and the time she was part of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
So maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised at the latest headline from Stuff.co.nz:
At times I’ve almost come to admire the creative ways Wilding inserts herself into the news — but this one was pushing it.
“Kiwi film-maker, producer and exhibiting photographer Anna Wilding has lost her future home to the wildfires burning in Los Angeles, 14 years after her family home in Christchurch was partly destroyed in the 2011 earthquake.”
If you read the whole thing in passing, you might not think twice — but once you know what’s going on, like nearly all of her stories, it’s just all so transparently bullshit. In this particular story, it’s the “future home” that got me.
She hasn’t lost a home. She’s lost a “future home.”
Read on, and it’s not her home. It’s a rental.
“Wilding says she was due to move into a rental property in the Pacific Palisades area of LA, until the wildfires - which have killed at least 16 people and placed over 100,000 residents under evacuation orders - tore it down.”
Essentially, at best, the story is that she was planning to move to an area that is now burnt down.
And I strongly doubt that plan ever existed.
Why is this even being reported? Part of it has to do with New Zealand’s desperation to include New Zealanders when reporting any kind of overseas event.
Wilding also does what she always does with these stories: She supplies the photos to the outlet (notice most photos in news stories about her are credited “SUPPLIED”), before rehashing all the previous press she’s gotten to add validity.
“Wilding was based in the White House from 2015-2017.”
It’s almost as if every story about her increases her power to keep inserting herself into even more stories. A Russian nesting doll, but all the dolls are made of horse shit.
When I started tracking the Wilding stories back in 2020, it was sort of amusing. But by this point — inserting herself in the Weinstein narrative where people were actually raped, and now the Californian fires where people are currently dying — please just stop it already.
And can New Zealand newsrooms please just take notice of what I’m writing, and stop reporting on this shit?
It’s been going on a quarter of a century now.
Google her first. Or read my stories:
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Please.
I’m begging you.
David.
PS: I spent $490.24 of Webworm merch profits on sanitary and baby products to drop off for wildfire relief (at Mutual Aid Action LA, 2515 W. 7th St). This is not me looking for a pat on the back, it’s a pat on the back to you. Thanks for being here.
