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Jenny-May Clarkson's toughest time on TV
TV1 sports presenter and former Silver Fern Jenny-May Clarkson is an ambassador for the World Masters Games that's opening in Auckland and the Waikato this weekend and is competing in the triathlon with her husband Dean despite her fear of open water.
The NZ Herald spoke to Jenny-May in the lead up to the games, and found out that her time in front of the camera at TVNZ hasn't always been easy.
When asked how she found the transition from netball, then to radio, then finally to TV, Jenny responded, "I wasn't widely accepted at TVNZ. I was a former netballer who'd waltzed in with no media training but lots of people were good to me like Wayne Hay, Martin Tasker and Toni Street. It was a real struggle for six months but I absolutely love it now - the intensity and the fact that anything can happen live. I'll stay as long as they'll have me."
NZ Herald also asked what the toughest time of her TV career was and how she get through it, and Jenny answered, "Three months into the job I took a brutal bashing for some dumb interviews I did at the Commonwealth Games. But just because somebody says I'm shit doesn't mean I listen to it. Netball taught me not to get stuck in the moment. You can find yourself rocking in a corner going, "I c
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Jenny-May Clarkson on her struggle for acceptance at TVNZ
Jenny-May Clarkson has admitted she struggled to be accepted when she first made the leap to TV, following careers in both sports and the New Zealand police.
While answering the New Zealand Herald’s Twelve Questions, Jenny-May told of how a “chance meeting” led to her kickstarting her media career, but that the path to acceptance wasn’t easy.
Clarkson said she appreciated she was just a “former netballer who’d waltzed in with no media training,” and that this had let to some people not being on board with her straight away.
“I wasn’t widely accepted,” she told the Herald. “But lots of people were good to me like Wayne Hay, Martin Tasker and Toni Street.”
“I was pretty terrible at first but I was lucky to have good people willing to invest time and effort in me.”
The mum of two, who worked as a policewoman prior to becoming a national sports star, added that she took a “brutal bashing” for some interviews she did at the Commonwealth Games, but that she tries hard not to listen to critics.
“If I stuff up on air I’ll spend the whole drive home going, ‘Everyone thinks you’re an idiot.'” Bu
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