Simon Dallow’s New Wife: Meet Louise Colenbrander

Ask who Simon Dallow’s wife is in 2024 and most searches land on the same name: Louise Colenbrander. The fuller story runs from his public split with Alison Mau — confirmed by TVNZ in 2009 — to a romance the New Zealand Herald first reported in 2011, with the wedding date still unclear.

Full Name: Simon Ross Dallow ·
Born: 18 June 1964 ·
Spouse: Louise Colenbrander ·
Ex-Wife: Alison Mau ·
Children: Two, including Paris ·
Profession: Journalist, TV personality, former barrister

• The paper trail starts in 2011, when the NZ Herald (national daily) reported Dallow was romancing radio executive Louise Colenbrander.
• A Kiwi Forum (secondary profile) that surfaced around 2024 searches puts the wedding in February.
• No statement from Dallow about the marriage appears in any of the coverage reviewed.

So the name that answers the question has been public for more than a decade. What’s newer is the “wife” label: the relationship was open news by 2011, while the marriage claims come from secondary profiles rather than from Dallow, TVNZ, or a wedding announcement in a mainstream outlet.

The 2024 search wave around “Simon Dallow new wife” makes sense once those two layers are separated — the partner is documented, the wedding is reported.

The wedding reports

• Some 2024-era coverage described the wedding as already done, which is part of why “new wife” became a search phrase.
• The two profiles that give a year both point to 2026 — one says February, one says early in the year (Kiwi Forum (secondary profile); Kiwi Forum (secondary profile)).
• Both accounts agree on the substance: a wedding after roughly 15 years together.

That 15-year figure actually fits the documented record: reports from 2011 already treated the relationship as established, and a wedding roughly a decade and a half later tracks with that timeline. A 2024-era timeline also had the couple leaving New Zealand in April 2024 for a new chapter — a detail repeated in secondary coverage without primary confirmation.

Who is Simon Dallow’s ex-wife?

Relationship timeline

• Simon Dallow married Alison Mau in 1996, according to Wikipedia and WhosDatedWho; IMDb lists the year as 1997.
• TVNZ confirmed the separation in June 2009 (RNZ (public broadcaster)).
• Mau said the divorce would be finalised in June 2011 and asked for privacy “out of respect for the children.” (NZ Herald (national daily))

The ex-wife’s identity is the least ambiguous part of this story: Alison Mau. The couple had been together about 19 years when the split became public, and RNZ’s report at the time put the marriage at 13 years.

The divorce coverage

• A WhosDatedWho summary describes the couple as divorced after 14 years of marriage — a slightly different count from RNZ’s 13 (WhosDatedWho (celebrity database)).
• The NZ Herald’s 2011 headline summed up the coverage: “Divorce gets dirty for TV stars.”

What this means: the “ex-wife” answer is clear, but the end date carries a small accounting problem — 13 or 14 years, depending on the source.

Did Simon ever have children?

Two children, including Paris

• Wikipedia lists two children from the Dallow-Mau marriage (Wikipedia (public biography)).
• IMDb also lists two children (IMDb (film database)).
• The daughter named in entertainment coverage is Paris Dallow; no primary source in the reviewed material names her directly.

The children question is one of the few where the sources line up. Wikipedia and IMDb agree on the number, and press coverage has consistently identified Paris as the daughter.

Paris’s reported acting career

• Entertainment site Now To Love reported that Paris appeared in Kinky Boots, revealing her as Simon Dallow’s daughter.
• The credit has not been confirmed by a production company or a primary statement.

The pattern: even the “nice” detail here — a daughter on stage — rests on a single entertainment report rather than a primary source, which makes it consistent with the wedding coverage.

How old is Simon Dallow?

Birth date

• Simon Ross Dallow was born on 18 June 1964, which made him 60 as of June 2024 (Wikipedia (public biography)).
• His full name, Simon Ross Dallow, is the version used in public biography records.

The birth date is the one fully closed fact in this story — no discrepancies, no “reported,” just a date.

Why the birth date matters

• Born 1964, married in the mid-1990s, separated in 2009, and publicly linked to Colenbrander by 2011: the age anchors the whole timeline.
• The NZ Herald’s 2011 item put Colenbrander at 28 when the relationship became public, which makes the age gap part of the record, not a rumour.

Why this matters: every other question in this article carries a caveat. The age question is the exception, and it gives the rest of the timeline its skeleton.

Who is Louise Colenbrander?

Background

• A 2011 NZ Herald item described her as a radio station account executive (NZ Herald (national daily)).
• The same item put her at 28 when the relationship became public.
• No dedicated biography, public social presence, or professional profile has surfaced in the coverage reviewed.

That 2011 account-executive credit is nearly the whole public file on Colenbrander. She appears in coverage as Dallow’s partner, not as a public figure in her own right — which is why the unanswered questions outnumber the confirmed details.

Marriage to Simon Dallow

• A Kiwi Forum profile describes the couple as together for 15 years before marrying (Kiwi Forum (secondary profile)).
• A second Kiwi Forum profile puts the wedding in early 2026 and says Dallow later left his TVNZ role (Kiwi Forum (secondary profile)).
• Neither claim has been confirmed by Dallow, TVNZ, or a mainstream publication.

The gap between 2024 search interest and the 2026 dates in the profiles is the central tension here. People were already calling Colenbrander Dallow’s “new wife” while the profiles that name a year pointed to a later wedding. Until a primary source confirms one, the honest label is “long-term partner and reported wife.”

The catch: Colenbrander is the right answer to the 2024 question, but the evidence for “wife” is thinner than the evidence for “partner,” and the year is the missing piece.

Simon Dallow: key dates

Five dates, one pattern: everything through 2011 is confirmed by broadcast or newspaper coverage; everything after that is reported.

The pattern: the first three rows are the easy ones. The last row is where every 2024 “new wife” headline quietly depends on a source it didn’t cite.

What’s confirmed, what’s still unclear

The pattern: this story is front-loaded. The firm facts all come from 2009–2011 coverage; everything after that repeats a small handful of secondary profiles.

What the people involved said

“I would prefer not to comment further out of respect for the children.”

— Alison Mau, in the NZ Herald (national daily), 2011

“Simon Dallow and Louise Colenbrander had been together for 15 years before marrying.”

— Kiwi Forum (secondary profile)

Why this matters: the two quotes bracket the coverage — one person asking for privacy, one secondary profile supplying the detail that later headlines repeated.

For the people still searching “Simon Dallow new wife” in 2024, the useful version of this story is simple: Colenbrander is the partner on the record since 2011, the profiles call her his wife, and the wedding year outran the evidence. For anyone writing about it, the choice is clear: attribute the marriage to secondary profiles and the dates to the broadcast record — or repeat a “new wife” headline the sources don’t actually confirm.

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Related reading

• De Facto Relationship NZ: 3-Year Rule and Property Rights — directly relevant if the wedding date stays unresolved; a 15-year relationship in New Zealand has legal weight of its own.
• Tina from Turners Ad: Actress, Real Name & Tina Turner Confusion — another case where a public figure’s identity got tangled in secondary reporting.

The common thread: personal status in New Zealand is often messier than a headline suggests — and the sourcing decides which version survives.