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.
Kate’s podcast ‘The Buck Up, Kate Langbroek with Nath Valvo’, launched in May 2024, debuting at #4 in Apple Podcast’s top comedy shows in its first week. A weekly antidote to the times, the weekly podcast always promises to provide a joyous reprieve from depressing news cycles, stress, buzzwords, celebrity bulltish and to-do lists with a whole lot of laughter and levity. Since then, Kate and Nath have amassed an array of loyal listeners growing stronger every month, their ‘Buckwits/Buckheads’ have been able to enjoy numerous Buck Up LIVE sold-out shows over the past couple of years.
Kate is also the host of Mamamia podcast No Filter, last year taking over the role from Mia Freedman, founder and host of No Filter for the past ten years. Kate brings her unique and widely loved interview style and humour to the top ranked podcast and in Mia’s words, “Kate has every trait I admire as an interviewer and as a human being.” She was Mia’s first and only choice to take over the role, “inviting people to tell their stories in a candid, intimate, vulnerable way that is sometimes heartbreaking, often funny and always interesting.” Kate’s listeners consistently leave 5-star reviews and one of Kate’s first interviews, with Andy Lee, became the most downloaded episode in No Filter history.
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. Kate continued her stellar radio career, having taken her top-rating national drive show with Hughesy to SCA’s Hit! Network.
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, The Hundred, as well as taking to the dance floor on Dancing with the Stars.
In 2019, while juggling marriage and unplanned parenthood, as well as a flourishing career on radio and television, 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, as well as appearing on Network Ten’s The Project every week.
You can currently listen to a new episode of The Buck Up every week on iHeart, and Mamamia’s No Filter wherever you get your podcasts. Kate 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 dog.
