A few months ago I had the chance to interview Canadian actress Sarah Allen, from the Global TV medical drama Remedy. When we chatted (for Parents Canada magazine), she was still weeks away from giving birth, and we talked all about maternity wear, pregnancy rules and her flexible birth plan. While some stars are hesitant […] Read more…
With a huge range of film (Any Given Sunday, Dumb and Dumber) and television (Picket Fences, NCIS) roles to her credit, actress Lauren Holly has enjoyed an extremely successful and varied career to date. A busy single mom who has made Toronto home with her three boys Azer (13, short for Alexander), Henry (12) and […] Read more…
We all know Canadian star Chantal Kreviazuk from hit songs like Surrounded, Before You and In This Life, as well as her covers of Feels Like Home and Leaving On a Jet Plane (part of the movie soundtracks of How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Armageddon, respectively). She is also a musical […] Read more…
During my recent visit to The Morning Show at Global TV in Toronto, I had the chance to sit down for a candid chat with host Liza Fromer, also a busy mom to son Samson (8) and daughter Ever (5 – don’t you love that name?) Here she dishes on her early wake-ups, parenting strengths […] Read more…
My first meeting with Traci Melchor, eTalk reporter and co-host of THE SOCIAL, was very brief…for a good reason. As I ran into her in the wardrobe room on my behind-the-scenes visit to THE SOCIAL, she was busy selecting her outfit for a special occasion that day: an interview with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. We […] Read more…
{If you missed it, my Momterview with Cynthia Loyst from a few months ago is HERE. She spoke about how she landed the role on the show, her thoughts about the institution of marriage, and being a mom to her now fourteen month old son Jaya. The interview has held the top spot for pageviews here […] Read more…
My take on celebrity gossip queen Lainey Lui evolved over the course of my day on the set of THE SOCIAL. When we first met in the co-hosts’ office, she stood up to greet me, and offered a polite handshake. I told her I enjoyed her book (Listen To the Squawking Chicken, about her Chinese […] Read more…
When CTV’s THE SOCIAL launched last September, I immediately identified with co-host and moderator Melissa Grelo (who does double duty as a news anchor and co-host on CP24 Breakfast as well). We’re both ’77 girls, born just a couple of days apart (Melissa being the older and wiser of course), we had similar Catholic upbringings, […] Read more…
You may also be interested in my “behind-the-scenes” visit to THE SOCIAL, and my latest interview with Cynthia on set! As a new mom of a nine-month-old son and one of the four co-hosts of CTV’s hit talk show “The Social”, Cynthia Loyst is a busy woman. Thankfully, she made time to have a chat […] Read more…
As the original Bachelorette, Trista Sutter found love on reality television with Colorado firefighter Ryan Sutter. Still happily married after ten years, this mom of two (son Max is 6, daughter Blakesley is 4) has recently published a book, “Happily Ever After: The Life-Changing Power of a Grateful Heart”. It isn’t a memoir (though she does […] Read more…