The winner is somewhere: Walker was in the toilet when his award was called out | RNZ

Added: 2026-06-04

[00:00:00]Sorry, I'm out of breath.

[00:00:02]I just went swimming IN >> [laughter] >> ALL RIGHT, YOUR WINNER I just saw him get up and go to the bathroom.

[00:00:12]Stan Walker.

[00:00:14]>> [cheering] >> Uh, do we want to start chanting Stan?

[00:00:18]Do you think that will make him come back or >> [cheering] >> It's funny because oh my gosh, I've got nothing written and I feel like an absolute idiot up here and I'm going to kill him when we get home.

[00:00:36]Um, here's a guess who's walking in now.

[00:00:41]He's going to come and steal it off me.

[00:00:42]Please come and get it off me. Please, PLEASE, PLEASE.

[00:00:44]HE'S GOING [laughter] TO go to the potty every time there's an award.

[00:00:48]>> I don't know what this is for.

[00:00:53]>> Uh, best best Maori artist.

[00:00:55]Best Maori artist.

[00:00:56]>> There's no best Maori artist. Every Maori is the best.

[00:01:01]Best, best yeah.

[00:01:02]Second runner-up.

[00:01:05]Uh, honestly God, I thought I was only voted for one like award tonight.

[00:01:10]And I lost.

[00:01:11]>> [laughter] >> So, oh well. Well, >> Actually, it's for Manurewa. Tā was already one best Maori artist, so yeah, sorry. I got that wrong.

[00:01:21]>> [laughter] >> Okay, well, Manurewa I've got to give it up to Tā as well as well. Cuz Kō Iho, he is my brother. And if it wasn't for Tāwharua, I wouldn't be able to to to do confidently what I do to the world because everything that we do here or that I do here, that me and my partner, me and my wife and my kids do, is we get to do that to the world. So, we feel honored and privileged to be able to do what we do and it wouldn't happen if it wasn't for my brother here and my sister and the partner and the collective that we belong to because we're not made of one person. I might be a kind of he to the world, but I am only made of all the people that are behind me, they backed me, they built me. So, to all the Maori artists and to all the everybody here.

[00:02:13]Sorry, I'm out of breath.

[00:02:14]>> [laughter] >> I just want to say I'm a