Pippa Wetzell

Pippa Wetzell
Occupation Journalist
Notable credit(s) Former presenter of Breakfast
Spouse(s) Torrin Crowther
Children Three

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 programme 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 3 February, 2011 which she confirmed is a boy. Pippa gave birth to a 9 lb, 11oz (4.13 kg) baby boy on 1 February, 2011, later named Taj Patrick Crowther.[4][5]

Wetzell previously presented One News at 4.30 before presenting Fair Go.

Wetzell attended Takapuna Grammar School on Auckland's North Shore, where she was Head Girl in 1994.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Coursey, Michelle (5 August 2007). "Pippa for Breakfast". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
  2. ↑ "Pippa to replace Kay on Breakfast". Stuff.co.nz. 3 August 2007. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
  3. ↑ McConnochie, Trudie (12 April 2009). "Pippa was right, it's another baby girl". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
  4. ↑ http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/pippa-wetzell-gives-birth-third-child-40115407
  5. ↑ "Pippa Wetzell names new baby". One News. 11 February 2011. Retrieved 3 November 2011.

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