Kate Langbroek
{{short description|Australian broadcaster}}
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| name = Kate Langbroek
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| birth_name = Katherine Langbroek
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| birth_place = Brisbane, Queensland
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| occupation = {{hlist|Television presenter|radio presenter|comedian}}
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| television = The Project
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Katherine Langbroek is an Australian comedian, radio and television presenter. Langbroek currently{{when|date=August 2024}} hosts Nine Network's reality program My Mum Your Dad. She is also a regular presenter on The Project and co-hosts the show on Tuesday nights alongside Waleed Aly, Sarah Harris and Sam Taunton. She has previously hosted Hughesy & Kate with Dave Hughes on the HIT Network.
Early life and education
Katherine Langbroek’s mother, Anne, is part Jamaican and American, and her father, Jan Langbroek, is Dutch. They both worked as missionaries in Papua New Guinea.
Kate was raised as a Jehovah's Witness and was bullied for her religion and appearance during her attendance at Salisbury High School (Queensland).
Langbroek has a degree in journalism.{{Cite news|url=https://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/kate-says-it-as-she-sees-it/news-story/886f1232525cb565ed923218b3cd4e03?sv=9fc8cae7683ef87140fec93bbe35b930|title=Kate says it as she sees it|last=Tuohy|first=Wendy|date=8 October 2011|work=Herald Sun|access-date=28 July 2018}}
Career
Langbroek has appeared on The Panel, Thank God You're Here, The Project, All Star Family Feud, Have You Been Paying Attention?, and Hughesy, We Have a Problem.
From the start of 2018, Langbroek co-hosts Hughesy & Kate on the Australian HIT Network, with Dave Hughes and anchor Jack Laurence. It is an afternoon drive time program. The program was on the KIIS Network until the end of 2017. A previous segment of the program was 'Katie Cracks It' in which she talked about whatever has made her angry over the past few days.
She was a radio announcer on the 3RRR programme Breakfasters.{{
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| title = Misfires and memories as FM turns 30 | work = The Age
| url = http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/misfires-and-memories-as-fm-turns-30-20100804-11epf.html
| accessdate = 9 August 2010}} Langbroek 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.{{Cite web |url=https://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/01/17/1168709762758.html|title=The making of an honest woman|last=Lallo|first=Michael|date=18 January 2007|website=The Age|language=en|access-date=22 July 2018}} Langbroek was a competitor in Dancing with the Stars in 2006. She was the sixth celebrity eliminated in Episode 8. She also competed in, and won, the weekly Thank God You're Here challenge on Network Ten on Wednesday, 18 July 2007.{{cn|date=August 2024}}
Langbroek was 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.{{cn|date=August 2024}} Langbroek has also been a guest co-host on Network Ten's morning show The Circle.{{cn|date=August 2024}} In November 2020, it was announced that Langbroek would replace Rebecca Judd as the co-host of the 3pm Pick-up in 2021.{{Cite web|date=2020-11-22|title=Kate Langbroek reunites with KIIS FM for new-look 3PM Pick Up |url=https://radiotoday.com.au/kate-langbroek-3pm-pickup-kiis/|access-date=2020-11-23|website=Radio Today|language=en-AU}} In October 2022, it was announced that Langbroek and her co-hosts Monty Dimond and Yumi Stynes would be leaving the show and the KIIS Network.{{Cite web|date=2022-10-30 |title=KIIS Axes 3PM Pick Up Program |url=https://www.newmedia.com.au/kiis-axes-3pm-pick-up-program/ |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=Newmedia |language=en-AU}}
In November 2022, it was announced that Langbroek would be joining the Nine Network as the host of the brand new love and dating show titled My Mum Your Dad.{{Cite web |title=Everything you need to know about the heartfelt new dating show My Mum Your Dad |url=https://9now.nine.com.au/my-mum-your-dad/2022-everything-we-know-cast-mums-dads-host-kate-langbroek-premiere-date-how-to-watch-explainer/b4a7a7c0-fcaf-4c0a-b552-ac0639af7f14 |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=9now.nine.com.au |language=en-AU}}{{Cite web |last=Gracie |first=Elizabeth |title=Meet the cast of My Mum, Your Dad! |url=https://www.nowtolove.com.au/celebrity/tv/my-mum-your-dad-cast-75534 |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=Now To Love |date=8 November 2022 |language=en}}
Personal life
Langbroek married engineer and multimillionaire bar owner, Peter Allan Lewis in 2003, and is the mother of four children.{{cite web | date = 11 February 2007 | title = Kate's work of Art | url = http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/confidential/kates-work-of-art/story-e6fredq3-1111112978017 | work = Advertiser
| accessdate = 9 August 2010}} She breast-fed live on The Panel shortly after the birth of her first son.{{cite web |first = Daniel | last = Dasey | date = 19 September 2003
| title = Sure fire way to milk a reaction
| url = http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/18/1063625153238.html
| work = The Sydney Morning Herald
| accessdate = 9 August 2010}}
Her brother is John-Paul Langbroek, a Queensland state politician and former leader of the Liberal National Party.{{cn|date=August 2024}}
On 8 August 2013, Langbroek revealed that in March 2013, her eldest child had received the "all clear" after a three-and-a-half-year battle with leukaemia. The family had chosen not to share on the radio his battle with cancer.{{Cite news|url=http://www.novafm.com.au/station/national/show/hughesy-and-kate/video/kate-langbroek-discusses-son-lewis-recovery-leukaemia|title=Kate Langbroek discusses Lewis' leukaemia|date=8 August 2013|work=Nova 969|access-date=22 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131124160624/http://www.novafm.com.au/station/national/show/hughesy-and-kate/video/kate-langbroek-discusses-son-lewis-recovery-leukaemia|archive-date=24 November 2013}} In 2015, Langbroek was appointed ambassador of the Children's Cancer Foundation and shared her story at the Foundation's annual fundraiser, The Million Dollar Lunch.{{cite web|title=The Million Dollar Lunch|url=https://www.childrenscancerfoundation.com.au/events/the-million-dollar-lunch/|access-date=26 February 2021}}{{cite web|url=http://www.theweeklyreview.com.au/meet/kate-langbroek-the-real-deal/|title=Media star Kate Langbroek on family and fame|last=Wilmoth|first=Peter|date=12 September 2013|work=Weekly Review|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161117120005/http://www.theweeklyreview.com.au/meet/kate-langbroek-the-real-deal/|archive-date=17 November 2016|access-date=2 July 2018}}
In January 2019, Langbroek and her family relocated to Bologna, Italy, initially for the period of a year.{{Cite web|title=Kate Langbroek Is Moving to Italy with Her Family! |url=https://www.hit.com.au/story/kate-langbroek-is-moving-to-italy-with-her-family-120245|access-date=2020-11-23|website=Hit Network|language=en}}
References
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Further reading
- Phillips, Mark 2006. [https://web.archive.org/web/20060820210332/http://vulgar.com.au/phillips.html Radio City]. Melbourne: Vulgar Press (history of RRR).
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20101206113921/http://www.adamsmanagement.com.au/ Kate Langbroek's Official Biography]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070609194341/http://www.nova100.com.au/site/shows/hughesy_and_kate.aspx Nova 100 – Hughesy & Kate website]
- {{IMDb name|0486006}}
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Category:Radio personalities from Melbourne
Category:Australian people of American descent
Category:Australian people of Dutch descent
Category:Australian people of Jamaican descent
Category:Nova (radio network) announcers