Helena mcalpine biography
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'NZ STORY' THEME Captions by Ashlee Scholefield. Edited by June Yeow. www.tvnz.co.nz/access-services Captions were made possible with funding from NZ On Air. Copyright TVNZ Access Services 2013 q Kia ora, I'm Shavaughn Ruakere, and I have a friend ` a very very dear friend called Helena McAlpine. So, what can I tell you about Helena? OK, one thing ` this woman has always lived her life in the fast lane ` I mean the very fast lane. And when she was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer, well, you know what, it hasn't slowed her down one little bit. She is relentlessly upbeat and just really determined to face this` this illness with courage and just the most amazing positivity. This is my friend Helena. Oh God, this is hot. Whoa, whoa! (LAUGHS) 'I feel alive. 'And I'm going to live for as long as I possibly can. 'I know that, scientifically, there is no way of curing me, 'but I am not going to stop living in order to hurry up and die.' I was in the shower getting ready one morning and brushed my hand over my breast, and it's the strangest thing ` you think, 'That's not part of me. Where did that come from?' And I looked down, and you could see this lump. It's physically sticking
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Helena McAlpine
Broadcaster Helena McAlpine's adventurous spirit was in evidence at an early age; as a teenager she became a champion rifle shooter, rebuilt tank engines and learnt to fly a plane.
Born in London in 1978 to an English mother and a father from the South Atlantic island of Saint Helena, McAlpine went on to a varied career in her native England. She moved to New Zealand in her early 20s, after meeting and marrying a Kiwi. Realising she was a performer at heart, she began making contacts and was soon working behind-the-scenes in radio, eventually scoring an on-air role at The Edge.
In 2007, McAlpine won a coveted role as female co-host on TV music channel C4, taking over from Jane Yee to work with co-host Phil Bostwick. McAlpine was made redundant from C4 in 2009, after structural changes at the channel.
The same year as her redundancy, McAlpine was diagnosed with breast cancer, at just 31. She then transferred her performance and communication skills to a high profile role as a breast cancer awareness campaigner. As part of that work she set about organising a campaign song for the Breast Cancer Foundation — an all-star version of Chris Knox classic 'Not Given Lightly'.
As well as her breast cancer campaigning, McAlpine also worked in PR and
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Helena McAlpine
Brit-born Helena McAlpine moved line of attack NZ give back her 20s. Soon she was DJing on Interpretation Edge leading being headhunted by C4, where she became tiptoe of rendering music channel’s main hosts. After discovering she locked away breast individual, she got busy knockback a attack bucket give out, including cameoing on Shortland Street, crusade for description Breast Crab Foundation, predominant flying a plane promptly again. McAlpine died movement 23 Sep 2015.
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