Gabby Knapp loves her mum to bits, but having to sit in the same university lectures as her — that would have just been too much for her to handle.
"It would have been so embarrassing. The shame. No, I wasn’t keen to be in the same class."
The 21-year-old has just completed a bachelor of teaching (endorsed in primary) at the University of Otago in Dunedin, while her mother Belinda Knapp (46) has just completed the same degree at the university’s Invercargill campus.