Jason Hoyte

Since scoring Billy T and Chapman Tripp awards as part of high energy comedy duo Sugar & Spice (alongside Jonathan Brugh), Jason Hoyte has applied his ample talents to comedy, drama and radio. Often cast as the smooth-talking but dodgy man in a suit (e.g. taxman tale We're Here to Help), Hoyte has also narrated reality shows, and been a regular comical partner to Leigh Hart. He stole the screen in TV's Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby, as dodgy guidance counsellor Steve Mudgeway. In 2021 Hoyte starred in web series Talkback, as a talkback host trying to insult his way back into the ratings; he also created the show, with Mike Minogue.

Jason played the vain, treacherous, shallow Steve so blindingly well I said to Danny [Mulheron] when he had gone that it was almost unfair to audition anyone else... Tom Scott, on auditions for Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby, in a Dominion Post article, 30 April 2005, page E5