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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Shahana Yasmin

Café owners apologise to Peter Jackson after wrongly accusing filmmaker of forcing them out

The owners of a popular seaside café in Wellington, New Zealand, have issued a public apology to Sir Peter Jackson and his partner, Dame Fran Walsh, after falsely claiming the couple were responsible for forcing it to shut down.

Penny and John Pennington, who run the Chocolate Fish Café, said in a statement on Wednesday that they had mistakenly attributed the end of their tenancy to Jackson and Walsh, and that their earlier comments had been “without foundation”.

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