He is a natural on the floor as many of us realised after he started posting dance videos with his co-hosts Jenny-May Clarkson and Jenny Suo during lockdown.
His moves are so good, he must have been trained.
“You’re far too kind,” laughs Matty, 35. “I haven’t been trained, but I have always loved dancing, not in a class or anything like that, but having a bit of a boogie, definitely. When I was young, I did really want to take dance lessons, but I didn’t have the easiest times at school as a flamboyant 11-year-old, so I stopped myself and I wish I’d done it now.”
Matty says the idea for the dance videos started as something silly to do during lockdown when the Breakfast crew had been divided into two teams so that if one became ill, the other could keep the show going.
Matty was teamed with Jenny-May and Jenny, while the other team consisted of John Campbell, Indira Stewart and Melissa Stokes.
“We thought we’d do it once as a fun little thing to entertain us during our first week of lockdown before the show,” Matty explains. “We learned a new dance routine every day and put our first one up on TikTok. People really liked it and asked us to do another one. So, all of a sudden it became a thing and here I was at 35 dancing on a TikTok platform for 20-year-olds!”
This story is from the February 14, 2022 edition of New Zealand Woman's Weekly.
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