Career
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 television 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.
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.
The couple have three children. Pippa gave birth to a 9 lb, 11oz (413 kg) baby boy on 1 February, 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.
