As part of my media commentating and magazine reviewing work for TV ONE Breakfast, the team asked me to compile a list of my top 10 people of 2008. Here it is, from number one on down:
Barack Obama - for inspiring America and the world at a time when inspiration was in short supply.
Helen Clark - for being one of the best PMs we've ever had, for her incredibly hard work for NZ, and for her dignified and gracious exit.
John Key - for a great start.
Murray Burton (Elim College Principal) - for extraordinary dignity at an appallingly difficult time.
Rob Fyfe (Air NZ CEO) - for the same kind of grace under pressure with the Air NZ crash.
Valerie Villi - for her Olympic win and her modesty and grace.
Mahe Drysdale - for battling on at the Olympics when he was terribly ill, and for not using it as an excuse for not winning gold.
Tina Fey - for being a better Sarah Palin then the real Sarah Palin. And for giving us all a laugh in a year when we really needed it.
Prince Harry - for being the only even slightly interesting Royal since the loss of Princess Diana, and for stopping falling out of nightclubs for a moment and becoming a minor war hero.
Rob James-Collier who plays Liam Connor on Coronation Street - for being the first genuine spunk in 48 years of the show. Beats all the Hollywood hunks hands down.
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