Kate Langbroek

Infobox Radio Presenter


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show = Hughesy & Kate
station = Nova 100
timeslot = 6:00 - 9:00 a.m. weekdays
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style = Breakfast Show Host
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Katherine Elizabeth Wilhelmina Beuving Langbroek (born 8 August 1965) is an Australian TV and radio personality of Jamaican and Dutch heritage. She was a panelist for Network Ten's talkshow "The Panel"

She now co-hosts Melbourne radio's "Hughesy & Kate Breakfast Show" on Melbourne's Nova 100 radio station, with Dave Hughes. A regular segment of the program is called 'Katie Cracks It' in which she talks about whatever has made her angry over the past few days. In her role on the show, she has been described as both morbidly obese and inately annoying.

Langbroek previously worked as an actress (appearing in soap opera "Chances" and in a Transport Accident Commission Community Service Announcement); a script writer for "Neighbours"; and as a radio announcer on the 3RRR programme "Breakfasters". Langbroek was a competitor in "Dancing with the Stars" in 2006. She was eliminated in Episode 8.

Langbroek competed in, and won the weekly "Thank God You're Here" challenge on the Ten Network on Wednesday, 18th July.

She was also a guest on, and won the quiz show "Out of the Question (game show)", for the episode airing on Thursday 28th February 2008. Her name was engraved on the 'Out of the Question' trophy, alongside the likes of Ed Kavalee and Tony Moclair.

Family

Langbroek is married to Peter Allen Lewis, and is the mother of three children, Lewis, Sunday and Artie. [http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,21208758-31624,00.html] . She breast-fed live on "The Panel" shortly after the birth of her first son, Lewis. [http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/18/1063625153238.html]

Her brother is John-Paul Langbroek, a Queensland state politician.

External links

* [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/01/17/1168709762758.html?from=top5, "The Age" The making of an honest woman]
* [http://www.adamsmanagement.com.au/ Kate Langbroek's Official Biography]
* [http://www.nova100.com.au/ Melbourne's Nova 100 website]
* [http://nova100.com.au/site/shows/hughesy_and_kate.aspx Nova 100 - "Hughesy & Kate" website]
* [http://www.who.com/who/magazine/article/0,19636,7401061231-1569171,00.html Interview with Kate on WHO.com]

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