'Tis the season: Toni Potter

Toni Potter

Toni Potter
Shortland Street actress

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What was top of your Christmas wish list this year - excluding world peace?

Time with my family, followed closely by sleep.

As a wee 'un, what was the one present you always wanted but never got?

A Cabbage Patch Kid.

Do you still want it?

Hell yes!

Defining moment of 2006, for you personally:

Not so much a moment but I had an amazing trip to the Reading Music Festival in Britain in August.

Most-overrated thing/person/topic of the year:

The stadium debate - who cares? What about poverty? World hunger? The illegal war in Iraq?

Album of the year:

A tie between: The Mint Chicks' Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's self-titled release.

Movie/DVD of the year:

Darwin's Nightmare.

Person of the year:

My sister Stacy.

The most important lesson you learned this year was ...

Drive to the conditions.

New Year's resolution for 2007:

Don't believe in New Year's resolutions.

Your prediction for 2007's next big thing ...

My niece Bonnie.