Lana Coc-Kroft (born 1967) is a New Zealand television and radio personality, and was
Miss Universe New Zealand
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in 1988.
Coc-Kroft began her television career appearing in ''
Sale of the Century
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'',
and in 1991 on the New Zealand version of ''
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'' as the co-host with
Phillip Leishman
Phillip John Leishman (9 April 1951 – 25 February 2013) was a New Zealand television broadcaster.
Biography
Born in Timaru in 1951, Leishman was educated at St Patrick's High School (now Roncalli College). He began his broadcasting care ...
, later
Simon Barnett
Simon Barnett (born 23 March 1967) is a radio and television host and presenter in New Zealand.
Barnett co-hosted the morning show on Christchurch radio station 92 More FM with Gary McCormick until 2018, and previously with Phil Gifford. He has ...
.
She continued in this role until the show ended in 1996. In 1994 she fronted the extreme sports show ''On The Edge'' for five years, where she went diving with sharks, parachuting, caving and extreme rafting in New Zealand and around the world. During the late 1990s she hosted
91ZM breakfast radio with
Marcus Lush
Marcus Lush (born July 1965) is a politician and television and radio presenter in New Zealand.
Broadcasting
He made his first footsteps into television in the 1990s as a reporter co-presenting TV2's ''Newsnight'' alongside Simon Dallow and Ali ...
, leaving in 2002.
In 1999 she co-hosted "The Lipstick Lunch" on ZM, which was networked nationwide in 2000. The show did not rate well despite winning Top Non Breakfast Award at the New Zealand Radio Awards in 2002 and as a result show was concluded.
Over the next few years Coc-Kroft hosted a series of shows and documentaries including ''Can You Hackett'', ''Make or Break'', ''DIY Dads'', ''On the Road'', and ''Test the Nation''. While filming ''Celebrity Treasure Island'' during April 2004 in Fiji, Coc-Kroft became very ill due to a coral cut,
and was flown to
Auckland City Hospital with potentially fatal
Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome
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.
She spent nine days in a coma and five weeks in critical care. After six-seven months of rehabilitation she had made an almost complete recovery.
Coc-Kroft has appeared in various New Zealand television advertisements, including one in 2003 advertising to switch off the microwave as the clock consumes a large amount of power. She has been national ambassador and spokesperson for several high-profile campaigns including
World Vision
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,
Persil
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Dirt is Good,
Healtheries, and the National Water competency programme.
From 1996 to 2005, Coc-Kroft was a host on the television show ''
SportsCafe
''SportsCafe'' was a New Zealand sports TV show. The show's original run was hosted by Lana Coc-Kroft, Marc Ellis, Leigh Hart, Graeme Hill, Ric Salizzo and reporter Eva Evguenieva. In 2001 Leigh Hart was added to the cast under his persona ...
'', and returned with the show in July 2008 for another season.
Regarding the 2005 celebrity drug case involving former rugby players
Marc Ellis and
Brent Todd
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Early years
Todd played in the Ne ...
(called Project Aqua by the police),
as part of the case, Coc-Kroft was granted name suppression, which she later let lapse, and she went to the police to explain her relationship with the men involved, but was not charged.
In 2009, Coc-Kroft co-hosted the show ''
Who Dares Wins
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'' with former ''SportsCafe'' presenter Marc Ellis.
See also
*
List of New Zealand television personalities
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A
* Suzy Aiken – television personality and Prime News presenter
* Peter Arnett – te ...
References
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1968 births
Living people
New Zealand female models
New Zealand television presenters
People educated at Auckland Girls' Grammar School
Miss New Zealand winners
Miss Universe 1988 contestants
New Zealand women television presenters