Matty McLean

The best way I can sum up the last year is… Insane. This time last year, I was living in London, having left TVNZ, and now I’m back working on the show I started out on as a 20-year-old a decade ago! I honestly couldn’t be happier.

A memorable moment on the show that immediately springs to mind is… When my producer said, “We’re sending you to Abel Tasman for a couple of days,” and I said, “Lovely”, and he replied, “To jump out of a plane from 16,000 feet.” I am intensely terrified of heights, but I can honestly say skydiving on Breakfast was one of the best experiences of my life. I would do it again in a heartbeat.

If I could erase a moment I’ve had on the show, it would probably be… I’ve done some incredibly embarrassing and ridiculous things on air already this year, but probably deciding to get the staples in my head removed on live television was one I wouldn’t rush to do again. A guest I’d love to have back on the show is… Riley, a young woman from Edgecumbe, who I met after the devastating floods there earlier this year. Her entire house was under water, but she’d headed straight to the fire station to help out cooking food

for all the volunteers there. She was incredible, resilient and so, so funny, despite the awful circumstance she was in.

A dream guest I’d love to invite to be on the show is… Beyoncé.

If I wasn’t on this show, my mornings would most likely involve… Sleeping. But also coffee, sleep, then more coffee.

For my first meal of the day, I have… Coffee. Plus a bowl of muesli. But mainly coffee.

The most memorable birthday I’ve celebrated personally would have to be my… 30th birthday when I travelled to Oktoberfest in Germany. We wore traditional lederhosen, ate German food and drank a significant amount.

When my alarm goes off at 3.45am each morning, my first thought is always… Thank God I love this job so much.

To me, Breakfast is… My family.