Christine McGlade
| Christine McGlade | |
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August 25, 1963 Canada |
Christine "Moose" McGlade (born August 25, 1963) is a Canadian digital media executive and former actress and assistant producer, best known for her long run as host of the internationally popular kids sketch comedy TV program You Can't Do That On Television. She was with the show from its very beginning as a local attraction on Ottawa, Ontario, television station CJOH-TV in 1979 until partway through the 1986 season. (In 1985 and 1986 Alasdair Gillis was her co-host.) She also served as host for Whatever Turns You On, the short-lived spinoff of YCDTOTV which aired on Canada's CTV network in the fall of 1979.
For nine years, McGlade was the Director of Interactive at Ontario’s Public Educational Media organization, TVOntario. During her tenure there, she was the executive in charge of production for TVO on successful and well-known Transmedia Projects such as Inside Disaster, Chocolocate, and Green Heroes. Her work has focused on social issues and she is currently Director of Interactive for Canada’s largest Volunteer Network, getinvolved.ca and a Senior Partner at Communications firm Q Media Solutions.
McGlade became a cast member on You Can't Do That On Television by "accident", according to fansite YCDTOTV.com. When show creator Roger Price held auditions for the show in the fall of 1978, McGlade went to the auditions only to support a friend. She had no ambitions in acting or show business, but Price insisted that she either audition or leave. McGlade auditioned and was chosen for the show, although her friend was not.
Though several of the other original cast members were approximately her age, in later years McGlade was significantly older than most of the other kids on the show. She was fifteen when she started on YCDTOTV, and by the time she left the show in 1986, she was 23. What allowed her to stay on the show for as long as she did, besides her natural TV talents (even more remarkable given the fact that she had no acting experience beforehand), was the fact that she looked much younger than she actually was, and could pass for a teenager well into her twenties.
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