Sara Tetro is a former New Zealand

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, and

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. She owns the model casting agency 62 Models Management, and is the host of the TV3 NZ

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''.

Early life

Tetro's father was a well-known Jewish general practitioner, Gabriel Tetro, and her mother Sally was a full-time caregiver for her family. She attended Auckland Technical Institute before entering the modelling industry, following encouragement from her father.

Career

Modelling

Tetro is a former model who worked for local agent Maysie Bestall-Cohen. After five years of modelling, she became a casting agent and started her own modelling company "62 Models" in 1994. She then bought the casting agency "The People Shop", with clients including

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, Marc Ellis,

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, and

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. She manages a staff of six. Television producer Julie Christie then cast Tetro to appear on the reality series ''

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'', where she stranded fellow contestants Peggy Bourne and

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. She negotiated the contract for

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as a model for Jockey Underwear, and supplies every model for

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advertisements.

Television

In late 2008, TV3 NZ announced ''New Zealand's Next Top Model'', a spinoff of the successful U.S. series ''

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''. Tetro was cast as the main judge and host on the show alongside Colin Mathura-Jeffree and Chris Sisarich. She also features as a guest judge on ''America's Next Top Model'', Cycle 14.

Personal life

Tetro was married to former All Black Craig Innes, and has two daughters. The couple separated in 2012. She became a Justice of the Peace in 2016. In 2018 she married Rob Fyfe. In 2018 Tetro was flown to Antarctica by

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as a consultant, which caused comment as her husband was on the board of directors for Antarctica New Zealand.

References

External links

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