| Pippa Wetzell | |
| Birth Date: | 26 January 1977 |
| Occupation: | Journalist |
| Spouse: | Torrin Crowther |
| Credits: | Former presenter of Breakfast |
Pippa Wetzell (born 26 January 1977) is a New Zealand television personality and journalist with TVNZ 1.
Wetzell attended Takapuna Grammar School on Auckland's North Shore, where she was Head Girl in 1994.[1] She went on to study at the Auckland University of Technology, graduating with a Bachelor of Communications degree.
She was hired by Television New Zealand in 1998 for the overnight assignments desk.[2] 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.[3]
Wetzell is of German and Samoan heritage.[4] She is married to lawyer Torrin Crowther, a competition law partner at Bell Gully. The couple have three children.[5]
Pippa's younger brother, Yanni Wetzell, is a professional basketball player.[6]