So it’s a race to the lab, especially if, like Minogue, the patients live more than an hour away from the Labtests site in Mt Wellington.
Since Minogue started talking publicly about his trouble getting a fertility test, many men have been in touch to share similar stories.
Comedian Dai Henwood also had to collect his sample from a fairly public space, after finding Labtests didn’t have a private room. The comedian told Minogue, on Radio Hauraki, that he’d had a vasectomy and needed to get tested to confirm it had worked.
“He had the same issue, where he was driving around and didn’t know where to go,” Minogue says.