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Encyclopedia > Ben Mulroney

Benedict "Ben" Mulroney (born March 9, 1976 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian television host. March 9 is the 68th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (69th in Leap years). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... City motto: Concordia Salus (Latin: Well-being through harmony) Province Québec Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area  - % water 366. ... Motto: Je me souviens (French: I remember) Official languages French Flower Blue Flag Iris (Iris versicolor Linné) Tree Yellow Birch Bird Snowy Owl Capital Quebec City Largest city Montreal Lieutenant-Governor Lise Thibault Premier Jean Charest (PLQ) Parliamentary representation  - House seat  - Senate seats 75 24 Area Total  - Land  - Water  (% of... NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw A news presenter is, broadly speaking, a person that presents a news show on television or radio. ...


He is the son of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Mila Pivnicki. He has a law degree from Laval University and a history degree from Duke University. Stephen Harper is the current Prime Minister of Canada. ... | name=The Rt. ... Mila Mulroney (born July 13, 1953 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia) is the wife of the 18th Prime Minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney. ... Laval University (Université Laval) is one of Canadas leading universities. ... Duke University is a private coeducational research university located in Durham, North Carolina, US. The school, which officially became Duke University in 1924, traces its institutional roots to 1838. ...


Mulroney is best known as the host of Canadian Idol, the Canadian counterpart of Pop Idol and American Idol, and host of the CTV entertainment magazine eTalk Daily. Recently, he was appointed as the new National Ambassador for UNICEF Canada. From 2001 to 2002, he was entertainment reporter on CTV's Canada AM. Mulroney also wrote a regular column for the Toronto Sun, owned by Quebecor Inc., on whose Board of Directors his father was serving. Canadian Idol is a reality television show on the Canadian television network CTV, based on the popular British show Pop Idol and its American counterpart American Idol. ... Pop Idol was a British television series which debuted on ITV1 on October 5, 2001; the show was a talent contest to find the best new young singer or pop idol in the United Kingdom. ... American Idol, formerly known as American Idol: The Search for a Superstar, is an American television series. ... CTV is a TLA that may stand for: CTV Television Network - a Canadian English language television network Channel Television - the main television broadcaster in the Channel Islands Chukyo TV. Broadcasting - a Japanese TV station in Nagoya This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might... eTalk Daily is a Canadian entertainment news magazine television series hosted by Ben Mulroney and Tanya Kim. ... UNICEF Logo The United Nations Childrens Fund or UNICEF (Arabic: ; French: ; Spanish: ) was established by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946. ... CTV is a TLA that may stand for: CTV Television Network - a Canadian English language television network Channel Television - the main television broadcaster in the Channel Islands Chukyo TV. Broadcasting - a Japanese TV station in Nagoya This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might... Canada AM is a Canadian breakfast television news show, which has aired on the CTV Television Network since 1972. ... A columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a column. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. ... The Toronto Sun is an English language daily newspaper published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Quebecor Inc. ...


Mulroney was one of several children of former Prime Ministers who became Canadian media personalities between 1998 and 2001. The others include Catherine Clark, Justin Trudeau and Alexandre Trudeau. His performance as television host has received mixed reviews; he has even been compared by some long-time viewers and critics to 1970s and 1980s Canadian TV host Jim Perry. 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Catherine Jane Clark (born November 6, 1976, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is the daughter of former Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark and Maureen McTeer. ... Justin Trudeau eulogizing his father during his state funeral Justin Trudeau (born December 25, 1971, Ottawa, Ontario) is the eldest son of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau. ... Alexandre (Sacha) Trudeau (born December 25, 1973) is a Canadian journalist, and the son of former Prime Minister, the late Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau. ... James Edward Perry (born November 11, 1934, in Camden, New Jersey) is a former television game show host, singer and performer in the 1970s and 1980s. ...


Trivia

  • Has met Nelson Mandela, Boris Yeltsin, George W. Bush and has been to Buckingham Palace when his father was Prime Minister. He also makes frequent trips to Paris, where he has been spotted numerous times in the Bois de Boulogne.
  • His father started to serve as Prime Minister of Canada when Mulroney was 8 and ended when he was 17.
  • Among fans, Ben is known as Mulroney Huggies.
  • Mulroney's on-air persona has garnered a legion of distateful comments on blogs, frequently referring to him as the "armpit of the Canadian entertainment industry" and crediting him with single-handedly destroying Canada's reputation in the entertainment business.
  • Mulroney parodied himself on an episode of Corner Gas entitled "Dog River Vice", and has a cameo appearance in the 2005 film, Fantastic Four.
  • Mulroney is a chef and is rumoured to have been offered his own cooking show by CTV, likely to air during midday.

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External links

The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about actors, films, television shows, television stars, video games and production crew personnel. ...

Interviews

  • Audio interview with Ben Mulroney from THECOMMENTARY.CA: Thursday, 10 February 2005

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Ben Mulroney Photos - Ben Mulroney News - Ben Mulroney Information (629 words)
As the son of Brian Mulroney, Canada's eighteenth Prime Minister, it was assumed that Ben would follow his father's footsteps and enter the world of politics.
Ben is quite up-front about the fact that he got his entertainment reporting job at CTV solely due to his name; he feels that not to have taken advantage of the edge that his family background gave him would have been stupid.
Ben: This show is first and foremost about the singers, and then about the judges, and maybe if we're lucky after that, and we have time, it should be about the host.
Ben Mulroney Emerges as a Star (2077 words)
Mulroney knows that his pedigree was a big part of why he got the job: "Of course the name gives me an edge.
When Ben was on TalkTV, his father had the set in the basement hooked up to a satellite dish (the only way they could get the show in Montreal), and the family would gather each night over TV-tray dinners to watch.
Ben Mulroney spent part of his Labour Day weekend hobnobbing with former president George Bush, Conrad BLACK, Jean CHRÉTIEN and other notables at a mansion-warming hosted by Paul DESMARAIS Sr., the patriarch of Montreal's Power Corp. clan.
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