Pam Corkery

The screen credits of colourful broadcaster and ex-MP Pam Corkery run from Dancing with the Stars, to being shot in Colombia for Intrepid Journeys. Corkery hosted 2003 talk show The Last Word and has presented Inside New Zealand documentaries on gangs, Asian crime, booze culture and self defence. She became the headline in 2014, after insulting a reporter while handling press for the Internet Mana party. 

Two years 'clean' when the programme first aired last year, she is always refreshingly and informatively frank about her experiences, and there's enormous documentary value in that. Jane Clifton reviews a rescreening of A Drunken State, Corkery's examination of Kiwi booze culture, The Dominion Post, 13 December 2012