Pippa Wetzell
{{Short description|New Zealand television personality}}
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| birthname = Philippa Wetzell
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| occupation = Journalist
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| spouse = Torrin Crowther
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| credits = Former presenter of Breakfast
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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.{{cite web |title=Twelve Questions: Pippa Wetzell |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10868184 |publisher=The New Zealand Herald |accessdate=28 Feb 2013}} She went on to study at the Auckland University of Technology, graduating with a Bachelor of Communications degree.
Career
She was hired by Television New Zealand in 1998 for the overnight assignments desk.{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10455879&pnum=0|title=Pippa for Breakfast|last=Coursey|first=Michelle |date=5 August 2007|work=The New Zealand Herald |accessdate=18 February 2010}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/31203|title=Pippa to replace Kay on Breakfast |date=3 August 2007|work=Stuff |accessdate=18 February 2010}}
Personal life
Wetzell is of German and Samoan heritage.{{Cite news|url=http://www.samoaobserver.ws/en/11_12_2016/local/14845/Pippa-Wetzell-returns-to-her-Samoan-roots.htm|title=Pippa Wetzell returns to her Samoan roots|work=Samoa Observer|access-date=2018-03-22}} She is married to lawyer Torrin Crowther, a competition law partner at Bell Gully. The couple have three children.{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10566280|title=Pippa was right, it's another baby girl|last=McConnochie|first=Trudie |date=12 April 2009|work=The New Zealand Herald |accessdate=18 February 2010}}
Pippa's younger brother, Yanni Wetzell, is a professional basketball player.{{cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/basketball/92537210/auckland-basketballer-yanni-wetzell-signs-with-division-one-side-in-us|title=Auckland basketballer Yanni Wetzell signs with division one side in US|last=|first=|date=12 May 2017|work=Stuff |accessdate=15 March 2022}}
References
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External links
- [http://tvnz.co.nz/breakfast-news/pippa-wetzell-1267927 Pippa Wetzell] at TVNZ
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Category:People educated at Takapuna Grammar School
Category:Auckland University of Technology alumni
Category:New Zealand television presenters
Category:New Zealand women television presenters
Category:New Zealand television journalists
Category:New Zealand women journalists
Category:New Zealand people of Samoan descent