Pippa Wetzell

Who is Pippa Wetzell?

Pippa Wetzell is a New Zealand television personality and journalist with TV ONE.

Wetzell has a Bachelor of Communications degree from the Auckland University of Technology, and was hired by Television New Zealand in 1998 for the overnight assignments desk. She has had several roles at TV ONE's breakfast television program 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.

Following Gregory's departure from Breakfast in 2007, she became co-host with Paul Henry Wetzell left the show at the end of 2010. Wetzell hosted the 2007 Halberg Awards with Simon Dallow.

She is married to lawyer Torrin Crowther, a competition law partner at Bell Gully. The couple have three children. On Friday 15 July 2010, Wetzell announced she was expecting her third child on February 3, 2011 which she confirmed is a boy. Pippa gave birth to a 9 lb, 11oz baby boy on February 1, 2011, later named Taj Patrick Crowther.

Wetzell previously presented One News at 4.30 before presenting Fair Go.

Wetzell attended Takapuna Grammar School on Auckland's North Shore, where she was Head Girl in 1994.