Kay Gregory
Kay Gregory is a journalist and former presenter at Television New Zealand. She previously hosted the Breakfast show with Paul Henry.
Gregory began her television career in 1994, when she became a newsreader and current affairs host for the regional channel, Coast to Coast, in her home city of Hamilton. She started at TVNZ in 1996, and was a reporter for the Breakfast programme when it first went to air in 1997. She then became a reporter for ONE News, and her stint there included some overseas work in the Solomon Islands and Fiji. From 2002 to 2004, Gregory was a full-time weather presenter for TV One. Then on 17 January 2005, she replaced Alison Mau as the co-host of Breakfast.
After leaving Breakfast, Gregory moved into local body politics and was elected as a councillor for Hamilton West. Gregory was the highest-polling councillor, with 11,808 votes. She did not stand again in the 2010 election.
In addition to her work at TVNZ, Gregory is a marriage and funeral celebrant, and a member of International Training and Communication.