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Toronto Through the Eyes of Matte Babel
Anyone watching CP24's morning show, CP24 Breakfast, will recognize Matte Babel, the Toronto-born TV personality. Originally starting out as a co-host, he moved to the remote host position, and can now be found in on-location segments all over the city. His most memorable segment, IMO, was during TIFF when he encouraged Jonas Brothers-spotting teenage girls to run screaming towards a Yorkville Starbucks, inciting a flock of middle-aged women and teenagers to run towards a fake celebrity spotting. Babel, of course is a veteran of handling screaming, from his previous gig as MuchMusic's MuchOnDemand co-host, perhaps the biggest shriek show on television.
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Toronto Through the Eyes of Mark McEwan
Mark McEwan, Toronto's homegrown celebrity chef, is currently on a quest to grow his food empire across the city. He boasts over 30 years of experience in the fine food industry, and opened his first restaurant, North 44 in 1990. From there, he set his sights on downtown and opened Bymark in the Financial District in 2002. His gourmet food (and gourmet prices) then seemed perfectly at home in Yorkville when he opened One in the Hazelton Hotel. If that weren't enough, McEwan recently opened up a gourmet food market at the Shops at Don Mills, called simply McEwan. You're also not safe from McEwan's food domination at home. He can be seen on his Food Network series The Heat on Fridays. People
Toronto Through the Eyes of Jeanne Beker
Where there's fashion, there's Jeanne Beker. The fashion journalist and industry insider is seemingly at every fashion show in the world as the host of CTV's Fashion Television and pals around with some of the biggest designers and style icons. Hell, the woman has her own Bratz Fashion Reporter doll. The busiest woman in fashion was born in Toronto and returned to live in the city after early years at acting school in New York City and Paris, where she trained to be a mime. You read that right, I didn't make that up. Beker was once poised to be a mime, after studying the silent art form with Etienne Decroux, Marcel Marceau's teacher. Realizing the money was in speaking out loud, she wound up working at 1050 CHUM, co-hosted The NEWMUSIC and then landed where she belonged, as host of FT in 1985.


