Shorty ac tor Feleti tells ‘MY MUM MADE ME A STAR!’

Don’t tell this Auckland mama she needs to get off Facebook – the social media site delivered Tess Aulika one of the best gifts ever while she was pregnant with her son Feleti!

Sprawled on the sofa, scrolling through her feed, with just a few weeks to go before the birth of her second child, Tess spotted a post asking for Auckland mums to contact Shortland Street producers if they were due to give birth within the month and, even better, if they were part Samoan.

Tick on the timing, tick on the ethnicity. “Why not?”