Robert Rakete

Robert Rakete got his screen break playing one of the teen adventurers on 80s kidult series Sea Urchins. After acting in teleplay The Protestors, he later became the enthusiastic, long-haired presenter on three different versions of music show Ready to Roll. Rakete also spent 14 years hosting a high-rating breakfast shift for Auckland's Mai FM radio station; he moved to The Breeze in 2006. In 2014 he spent time in The Wiggles, as 'the brown Wiggle'.

I'd initially auditioned for Children of Fire Mountain. Casting agents came to my intermediate school in Otara, South Auckland, just before I was about to sit a maths test. So of course I volunteered. Robert Rakete, on his first audition for television