Kate Langbroek

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Kate Langbroek
Born (1965-08-08) 8 August 1965
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Style TV & Radio Presenter
Country Australia
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Katherine Elizabeth Wilhelmina Beuving Langbroek (born 8 August 1965) is an Australian television and radio personality of Jamaican, Jewish and Dutch heritage. She was a radio announcer on the 3RRR programme Breakfasters[1] and has been a panelist for Network Ten's talkshow The Panel.

Career

Langbroek previously co-hosted Hughesy & Kate Breakfast Show on Melbourne's Nova 100 radio station, with Dave Hughes. A regular segment of the program is called 'Katie Cracks It' in which she talks about whatever has made her angry over the past few days. On 10 September 2013, Langbroek and on-air partner Dave Hughes announced that 2013 will be their last year of breakfast radio together.[2]

Kate previously worked as an actress (appearing in soap opera Chances and in a Transport Accident Commission Community Service Announcement); and as a script writer for Neighbours.

Langbroek was a competitor in Dancing with the Stars in 2006. She was eliminated in Episode 8.

She also competed in, and won the weekly Thank God You're Here challenge on the Ten Network on Wednesday, 18 July 2007.

Kate was also a guest on, and won the quiz show Out of the Question, for the episode airing on Thursday 28 February 2008. Her name was engraved on the 'Out of the Question' trophy, alongside the likes of Ed Kavalee and Tony Moclair.

Langbroek has also been a guest co-host on Network Ten's morning show The Circle.

Family

Langbroek is married to Peter Allen Lewis, and is the mother of four children, Lewis Jan, Sunday Lil, Art Honore and Jan Allen.[3] She breast-fed live on The Panel shortly after the birth of her first son, Lewis.[4] Her brother is John-Paul Langbroek, a Queensland state politician and former leader of the Liberal National Party.

On 8 August 2013, Langbroek revealed that in March 2013, her eldest child, Lewis, had received the 'all clear' after a three and a half year battle with leukaemia. The family had chosen not to share Lewis' battle with cancer, on the radio [5]

References

  1. Lallo, Michael (4 August 2010). "Misfires and memories as FM turns 30". Age. Fairfax. Retrieved 9 August 2010. 
  2. "All good things must come to an end...", Nova Radio. 10 September 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  3. "Kate's work of Art". Advertiser. News Limited. 11 February 2007. Retrieved August 2010. 
  4. Dasey, Daniel (19 September 2003). "Sure fire way to milk a reaction". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax. Retrieved 9 August 2010. 
  5. Kate Langbroek discusses son Lewis' recovery from leukaemia | nova Radio 8 August 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2013

Further reading

  • Phillips, Mark 2006. Radio City. Melbourne: Vulgar Press (history of RRR).

External links

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