Suzy Cato
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:EngvarB Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Suzanne Noreen Cato Template:Post-nominals (born 20 June 1968) is a New Zealand children's entertainer. She is best known as the host of several New Zealand children's television programmes, most notably Suzy's World and You and Me.[1][2]
Career
Cato began her broadcasting career at the KCCFM radio station in Whangarei, before she moved to Auckland to begin her television career in 1990.[3] Cato's first role on television was as a presenter of the New Zealand version of the popular children's television series The Early Bird Show with a puppet character named Russell Rooster. After The Early Bird Show, Cato moved on to hosting the children's television show 3pm.[3]
In 1993 Cato presented the successful You and Me television show, which aired over 2000 episodes.[4] When this show finished in 1998, Cato created her own production company – Treehut.[5] Cato went on to produce her immensely popular Suzy's World, which aired 263 episodes from 1999–2002.[6]
Since 2005, Cato has produced a television show in association with the New Zealand Police – Bryan and Bobby.[7] Bryan and Bobby is an educational show which was created to teach children safety messages through song and entertainment.[8]
Cato was a contestant on the seventh series of Dancing With The Stars New Zealand.[9][10]
She is currently co-hosting a podcast series Double Strength Mama Power (regarding parenting in New Zealand) alongside Tui Fleming.[11]
She was part of a TV channel designed to educate New Zealand children stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, on one of two channels announced on 8 April 2020.[12]
On 9 May 2021 Suzy appeared on The Masked Singer NZ as the "Tui", being the first one eliminated.[13]
In the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours, Cato was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to music, television and education.[14]
Personal life
Born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia to New Zealand parents, Cato moved to her parents' homeland when she was a month old, living in Hamilton, Kaikohe and Dunedin before settling in Auckland where she lives today.[15]
When Suzy's World was cancelled, Cato said that she was taking a break to focus on "her greatest production ever — growing a wee family"[15]
Cato and her husband Steve have two children.[16]
See also
References
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External links
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- 1968 births
- Living people
- Entertainers from Brisbane
- Australian emigrants to New Zealand
- New Zealand television presenters
- New Zealand women television presenters
- People from Kaikohe
- Entertainers from Auckland
- Association of Community Access Broadcasters
- Rhema Media
- Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit