Pippa Wetzell
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Philippa "Pippa" Wetzell (born 26 January 1977) is a New Zealand television personality and journalist with TVNZ 1.
Early life
Wetzell attended Takapuna Grammar School on Auckland's North Shore, where she was Head Girl in 1994.[1] She went on to study at the Auckland University of Technology, graduating with a Bachelor of Communications degree.[2]
Career
She was hired by Television New Zealand in 1998 for the overnight assignments desk.[2] 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. She has also presented the consumer affairs show Fair Go. Following Gregory's departure from Breakfast in 2007, she became co-host with Paul Henry. Wetzell left the show at the end of 2010.[2][3]
Personal life
Wetzell is of German and Samoan heritage.[4] She is married to lawyer Torrin Crowther, a competition law partner at Bell Gully. The couple have three children.[5]
Pippa's younger brother, Yanni Wetzell, is a professional basketball player.[6]
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External links
- Pippa Wetzell at TVNZ
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- 1977 births
- People educated at Takapuna Grammar School
- Auckland University of Technology alumni
- Living people
- New Zealand television presenters
- New Zealand women television presenters
- New Zealand television journalists
- New Zealand women journalists
- New Zealand people of Samoan descent
- New Zealand people of German descent
- Samoan people of German descent