BREAKFAST COMES OF AGE

This week marks the 21st anniversary of TVNZ 1’s Breakfast and to celebrate the milestone, the team is sharing memories from their own 21st celebrations.

HAYLEY HOLT

I was in Canada chasing the snow the year of my 21st and as you do when you’re that age, I ran out of money. So I made the call to the parents and started negotiations: If they saved me from a life on the streets of Vancouver by buying me a ticket home, I would forgo having a 21st party. That was all well and good until it wasn’t. As the date loomed, I managed to convince my folks that a party would be just as good for them as it was for me. So I got my cake and I ate it too!

JACK TAME

For my big 21st celebrations, I had a grand total of three separate carrot cakes. It was the best.

DANIEL FAITAUA

It was a double celebration for me as I was also graduating from university. My folks persisted on splashing out on a sizeable party, but I insisted on taking the money to fund my travel overseas. I also had my own modest stash from years of waiting tables and spent the next six months travelling.

MATTY MCLEAN

Jack actually did a speech at my 21st. We’d been mates all through university and we’d only recently started at TVNZ together. He wrote and performed a song, the contents of which are unpublishable. But it remains to this day one of the funniest things I’ve heard.