Gossip columnist resigns after tweeting offensive comments

Updated July 7 2015 - 1:08pm, first published 12:28pm
New Zealand socialite and gossip columnist Pebbles Hooper Photo: Peter Meecham
New Zealand socialite and gossip columnist Pebbles Hooper Photo: Peter Meecham
The tweet sent by Pebbles Hooper.
The tweet sent by Pebbles Hooper.
Cindy George and her children, Teuruaa, Telyzshaun and Pio. Photo: Stuff
Cindy George and her children, Teuruaa, Telyzshaun and Pio. Photo: Stuff

A New Zealand socialite has resigned from her role as a newspaper gossip columnist, amid fallout from her comments that a family's deaths were "natural selection".

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