Create an experience with Kate Langbroek

Kate Langbroek is one of Australia’s most beloved and unique media personalities. Her ferocious wit, playfulness and irreverence have made her an audience favourite in a career that has spanned prime time television, top-rating breakfast and drivetime radio, acting, scriptwriting and journalism.

Most recently, Kate has been announced as the Summer Series host of Mamamia podcast ‘No Filter’, with this being the first – and only – time regular host Mia Freedman has handed over the reins, citing Kate as one of the most talented, instinctive, and disarming interviewers in the country.  Bringing her unique and widely loved interview style and humour to the top ranked podcast, Kate will conduct an exclusive season of interviews with guests from all walks of life.

Kate first came to our attention on Triple R in the mid-1990s and then as a regular on The Panel, one of Network Ten’s longest-running shows, while also working as a screenwriter on shows such as Neighbours, All Together Now and Full Frontal.  She was also a regular columnist for the City Weekly.  In 2001 Kate helped catapult start-up radio station Nova 100 to instant ratings success, along with co-hosts Dave ‘Hughesy’ Hughes and Dave O’Neil. She also built a following with a print audience, with wry weekly columns for The Sunday Age and Stellar magazine. A versatile performer, Kate has also appeared regularly on Thank God You’re Here, Adam Zwar’s Agony series, Hughesy We Have A Problem and Have You Been Paying Attention, as well as taking to the dance floor on Dancing with the Stars and hosting UnReal Estate. Meanwhile, Kate continued her stellar radio career, taking her top-rating national drive show with Hughesy to SCA’s Hit! Network.

In 2019, while juggling a flourishing career, marriage and unplanned parenthood, Kate threw a curve ball. With her husband Peter Lewis, they decided to pack up their four children (Lewis, Sunday, Artie and Jannie) to move to Bologna in Italy for two years. It was a remarkable ‘si-change’, captured brilliantly in Kate’s first and best-selling book, Ciao Bella! Six Take Italy (Simon & Schuster). Upon her return to Australia in 2021, she found a passionate audience on the KIIS network, co-hosting the 3pm Pick-Up.  2023 saw Kate return for a second series in her new-found role as a reality compere on Nine Network’s ‘My Mum, Your Dad’, a heartwarming series that followed a group of single parents who were nominated by their grown-up kids for a second chance at love.

In 2024, Kate can be seen on-screen as a regular co-host on The Project, whilst also working on some exciting new projects.  She can be seen off-screen shopping for her family of six, working as an unpaid Uber driver and learning to run (eek!) with the family’s new puppy.

Kate’s Keynote Speech Topics:

Two Boys, One Girl; My Life in Radio and Comedy
A woman working in comedy - especially in radio comedy - will rarely (if ever)
be the majority in the room. And then there’s a funny thing called the gender
pay gap. Kate discusses how she has encountered, and surmounted both of
these challenges, and risen (with a few banana-skin falls along the way).

The Boy Who Lived: A Mother’s Fight to Save her Son
It is every parent’s nightmare; a child diagnosed with cancer. Kate’s first-born son, Lewis Lewis, was diagnosed with leukaemia when he was six years old. She shares how her family endured four years of often-brutal treatments, as a family, and as a mother who tries to hold her world together when it is falling apart.

Walking Away from Everything and Gaining it all.
Who has not dreamed of running away from it all? Kate did exactly that - in 2019 she moved to Italy for the adventure of a lifetime. Only she had to take five people with her. In an often-funny and often-moving recounting of the realities of what actually happens when you make your dreams come true, she shares the highs and lows of leaving everything behind, what she learned about herself and Australia, and finding out what ‘home’ really means.

Those Who Dare to Dream, and Those Who Dare to Do.
People love to say; If you dream it you can do it, but Kate’s contention is that dreaming alone is not enough. The arena of life is full of those who criticise from the bleachers; who can see so clearly what could - and should - have been done better. Kate’s address celebrates the notion that the world is built by those who actually DO - who organise, who admin, who build - who book the tables-of-ten for others to enjoy. It is both a humorous and motivational salute to those who take the risks in turning ‘what-if’ into ‘look-at-this’, and an uplifting tale of moving from one side of the ledger to the other.