Jenny-May’s Breakfast dream ‘I WANT TO BE THE FIRST WOMAN TO DO THIS!’
Breakfast presenter Jenny-May Clarkson has one of the best stories to tell about her time on the show, which celebrates 25 years on air this week.
But it’s not an interview which went wrong or indeed an interview which went right. It’s the moment she found out she had her job on Breakfast.
“When I was offered the role, the first thing I felt was fear and then once I had moved through that process, I remember driving in the car on my own. The tears are coming back now! I remember tears rolling down my face. And I was thinking of my dad, who died four years ago, and I said, ‘Hey, Dad, how far have we come?’
“I’ve had struggles with my own journey of being Māori. But just at that moment, I realised I’m the only female Māori presenter who has done. So, I had that
