SHARP WORK
Toni Street’s hot new job revealed
Toni Street will tomorrow be up with the birds, as her voice joins the morning chorus of breakfast radio.
The 31-year-old presenter is set to launch the latest chapter in her broadcasting career with NZME. by co-hosting the breakfast show on The Hits radio station, while two of its regular hosts, Polly Gillespie and Grant Kereama, take a brief break.
Street will join their fellow co-host Marc Peard for the week-day show.
Street, who admits she’s a little nervous about the new role, said being behind a radio microphone was something she has always wanted to do and she was looking forward to turning back the clock.
“The last time I was in radio I had just come out of journalism school and it was only for a few weeks,” she told the
“At the end I was offered an internship at Radio Sport and Television New Zealand.
“It was a hard decision to choose between radio and television so I feel quite lucky and excited to get to do it again.”
Since moving from breakfast television to join Mike Hosking on the revamped Street has been doing weekly segments with her experienced TV co-host on his top-rating Newstalk ZB show. But as Hosking is currently on holiday, the
duo will not go head-tohead in the battle for breakfast show ratings.
“I was joking with him before he left on holiday that if he was still here we’d be competing for the same time slot,” Street said.
NZME. chief content officer Gemma Fordham was thrilled that the talented Street was joining the team.
“I feel like it’s a real coup. She has such gravitas and she’s a really lovely woman which will easily translate on the airwaves.”
Fordham said Street would initially be filling in for absent hosts over the next few months over a variety of its radio stations, including on talkback.
The pair would then assess which format best suited Street.
But the broadcaster, due to give birth to her second child in March, said at this stage she did not intend to juggle a demanding morningevening full-time shift.
“It’s definitely only a part-time position. My primary job is being a mum.”