Kate Langbroek

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Kate Langbroek
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Langbroek in 2012
Born
Katherine Langbroek

Brisbane, Queensland
Occupations
  • Television presenter
  • radio presenter
  • comedian
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Katherine Langbroek is an Australian comedian, radio and television presenter. Langbroek currently[ when? ] hosts Nine Network's reality program My Mum Your Dad. She is also is 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.

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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. [1]

Kate was raised as a Jehovah's Witness and was bullied for her religion and appearance during her attendance at Salisbury High School (Queensland). [1]

Langbroek has a degree in journalism. [1]

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 . [2] 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 . [3] 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.[ citation needed ]

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.[ citation needed ] Langbroek has also been a guest co-host on Network Ten's morning show The Circle .[ citation needed ] In November 2020, it was announced that Langbroek would replace Rebecca Judd as the co-host of the 3pm Pick-up in 2021. [4] 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. [5]

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. [6] [7]

Personal life

Langbroek married engineer and multimillionaire bar owner, Peter Allan Lewis in 2003, and is the mother of four children. [8] She breast-fed live on The Panel shortly after the birth of her first son. [9]

Her brother is John-Paul Langbroek, a Queensland state politician and former leader of the Liberal National Party.[ citation needed ]

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. [10] 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. [11] [12]

In January 2019, Langbroek and her family relocated to Bologna, Italy, initially for the period of a year. [13]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Tuohy, Wendy (8 October 2011). "Kate says it as she sees it". Herald Sun. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  2. ↑ Lallo, Michael (4 August 2010). "Misfires and memories as FM turns 30". The Age. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
  3. ↑ Lallo, Michael (18 January 2007). "The making of an honest woman". The Age. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  4. ↑ "Kate Langbroek reunites with KIIS FM for new-look 3PM Pick Up". Radio Today. 22 November 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  5. ↑ "KIIS Axes 3PM Pick Up Program". Newmedia. 30 October 2022. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
  6. ↑ "Everything you need to know about the heartfelt new dating show My Mum Your Dad". 9now.nine.com.au. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
  7. ↑ Gracie, Elizabeth (8 November 2022). "Meet the cast of My Mum, Your Dad!". Now To Love. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
  8. ↑ "Kate's work of Art". Advertiser. 11 February 2007. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
  9. ↑ Dasey, Daniel (19 September 2003). "Sure fire way to milk a reaction". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
  10. ↑ "Kate Langbroek discusses Lewis' leukaemia". Nova 969. 8 August 2013. Archived from the original on 24 November 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  11. ↑ "The Million Dollar Lunch" . Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  12. ↑ Wilmoth, Peter (12 September 2013). "Media star Kate Langbroek on family and fame". Weekly Review. Archived from the original on 17 November 2016. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  13. ↑ "Kate Langbroek Is Moving to Italy with Her Family!". Hit Network. Retrieved 23 November 2020.

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