Paul Henry has been riling people with his comments for years.

When Paul Henry returns to Breakfast TV he will be joined by two women.

Hilary Barry and Perlina Lau have been announced to co-host his new breakfast show on TV3 .

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3News and RadioLive presenter Barry will be the news anchor in a four-strong presenting line up on the Paul Henry show, MediaWorks said today.

Lau, who would be new to many people, had worked behind the scenes at 3News and would be the social media presenter. A sports presenter has yet to be named.

No date has been announced for the start of the Paul Henry show, which is to broadcast weekdays from 6am-9am on RadioLive and TV3.

Acting publicity manager Amy Prebble said the premiere could be in late-March or early-April.

Lau had been part of the 3News team as a director's assistant for the past two years, MediaWorks said.

She was a producer, co-creator and one of the stars of web series Flat3, and directed the social media engagement with the show on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Barry will continue to present the 3News 6pm bulletins on weekdays.

Plans for Henry's new show were announced in October, to the dismay of many RadioLive listeners who were fans of the station's then breakfast slot presenter Marcus Lush. It has since been announced that Lush will be joining Newstalk ZB as host of its night show.

Henry's nightly news programme on TV3 ended in December.

The new show will be broadcast simultaneously on TV3 and RadioLive. MediaWorks said the show was designed to work equally well on television, radio and digital.

Chief executive Mark Weldon called it "a major shift in the delivery of news and entertainment" in this country.

"... the format will allow viewers/listeners to move effortlessly between their bedrooms, living rooms and cars in the morning, with uninterrupted access to news, information and entertainment wherever they are."

Henry's controversial breakfast television moments:



* Made fun of a woman with facial hair.

* Laughed at, and incorrectly pronounced, the name of Indian politician Sheila Dikshit.

*Asked Prime Minister John Key if the then Governor-General Anand Satyanand was a New Zealander and if he would choose someone who looked and sounded more like a New Zealander when Satyanand's term finished.

*Referred to Scottish singer Susan Boyle as "retarded" and, after reading a magazine article, he laughed as he described how she was "starved of oxygen" at birth and suffered an intellectual disability.

* Asked a scientist if she had sex with Richard Branson.

Some other comments include: "They are so arrogant and hideous people, campervan people." Called a teenage mum a "slapper". Said obese children "should be taken away from their parents and put in a car compactor". When convicted murderer Antonie Dixon died: "I can hear a chorus of people saying 'thank goodness'."

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