| Pippa Wetzell | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Spouse(s) | Torrin Crowther |
| Children | Three |
| Notable credit(s) | Former presenter of Breakfast |
Pippa Wetzell (born 26 January 1977) is a New Zealand television personality and journalist with TV ONE.
Wetzell has a Bachelor of Communications degree from the Auckland University of Technology, and was hired by Television New Zealand in 1998 for the overnight assignments desk.[1] She has had several roles at TV ONE's breakfast television program Breakfast, starting as a junior meet-and-greet assistant before reporting news for the show. From 2001 she was a reporter for ONE News, later returning to Breakfast as back-up host for Kay Gregory.
Following Gregory's departure from Breakfast in 2007, she became co-host with Paul Henry Wetzell left the show at the end of 2010.[1][2] Wetzell hosted the 2007 Halberg Awards with Simon Dallow.
She is married to lawyer Torrin Crowther, a competition law partner at Bell Gully. The couple have three children.[3] On Friday 15 July 2010, Wetzell announced she was expecting her third child on February 3, 2011 which she confirmed is a boy. Pippa gave birth to a 9 lb, 11oz (4.13 kg) baby boy on February 1, 2011, later named Taj Patrick Crowther.[4][5]
Wetzell attended Takapuna Grammar School on Auckland's North Shore, where she was Head Girl in 1994.