When Alan Wendt was a child, watching the Miss Universe pageant with his mother was an annual highlight. Thirty years on, Wendt, 40, has himself become a staple on New Zealand television screens as prime minister Jacinda Ardern’s sign language interpreter – the first ever employed by a New Zealand prime minister on a regular basis. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Alan Wendt arrives for work at parliament. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Alan Wendt signs while Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks. “But in terms of interpreting, if the prime minister is showing emotion that’s also something I don’t need to be interpreting, because you can see it right there.”

Source: The Guardian June 07, 2019 00:00 UTC