{{Short description|New Zealand television personality}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | image = Pippa Wetzell.jpg | name = Pippa Wetzell | birth_name = Philippa Wetzell | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|1|26|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nissen |first1=Wendyl |title=Pippa Wetzell's year of change |url=https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/celebrity/celeb-news/pippa-wetzell-year-of-change-45543/ |website=nowtolove.co.nz |publisher=New Zealand Woman's Weekly |access-date=10 March 2025 |date=7 April 2022}}</ref> | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = [[Journalist]] | disappeared_status = | title = | family = | spouse = Torrin Crowther | children = | relatives = | credits = Former presenter of ''[[Breakfast (New Zealand Television Programme)|Breakfast]]'' }}
'''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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> She went on to study at the [[Auckland University of Technology]], graduating with a Bachelor of Communications degree.<ref name="NZHerald10455879" />
==Career== She was hired by [[TVNZ]] (Television New Zealand) in 1998 for the overnight assignments desk.<ref name="NZHerald10455879">{{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}}</ref> She has had several roles at [[TVNZ 1|TV One]]'s [[breakfast television]] programme ''[[Breakfast (New Zealand TV programme)|Breakfast]]'', starting as a junior meet-and-greet assistant before reporting news for the show. From 2001 she was a reporter for ''[[1News|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 (broadcaster)|Paul Henry]]. Wetzell left the show at the end of 2010.<ref name="NZHerald10455879" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/31203|title=Pippa to replace Kay on Breakfast |date=3 August 2007|work=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |accessdate=18 February 2010}}</ref>
==Personal life== Wetzell is of [[Germans|German]] and [[Samoans|Samoan]] heritage.<ref>{{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}}</ref> She is married to lawyer Torrin Crowther, a competition law partner at [[Bell Gully]]. The couple have three children.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
Pippa's younger brother, [[Yanni Wetzell]], is a professional basketball player.<ref>{{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 (website)|Stuff]] |accessdate=15 March 2022}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://tvnz.co.nz/breakfast-news/pippa-wetzell-1267927 Pippa Wetzell] at TVNZ
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