Hayley Holt has signed off from TVNZ's Breakfast programme, making an emotional dedication to the unborn baby she tragically lost this year and leaving her colleagues in tears.
Holt told viewers that she was dedicating the show and her "whole life" to "Frankie Tai, my bubba who's up there, my evening star".
The popular host lost her unborn baby at seven months gestation while she was isolating at home during the peak of the Covid-19 outbreak.
There wasn't a dry eye in the house as her colleagues paid tribute to Holt. Jenny-May Clarkson, who will replace Holt on the show, said Holt was "a super woman with heart and soul and smarts".
Matty McLean told Holt: "I'm so lucky to get to know you and call you my buddy," and described his friend as "smart, inquisitive, funny and absolutely bonkers".