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Vicki Gabereau
photo courtesy of the Vicki Gabereau
show
Vicki Gabereau
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Not one to take the easy path in life, she
dropped out of high school two credits short, got married
before she was 20, had two kids by the time she was 23, drove
a cab, slung beer, and ran for Mayor of Toronto - all before
she turned 30.
Gabereau grew up in Vancouver in the 1950's surrounded by
media personalities. Her father worked as a photographer
for the Vancouver Sun and often complimented the words of
his best friend Pierre Berton with his photographs.
Although she was very bright, school for Gabereau was a challenge.
Her inability to concentrate mystified her teachers and her
parents. It was her first husband Michel Gabereau, a
lion tamer with the circus when they first met, who encouraged
Vicki towards a career in the media.
"I sort of had it in my mind that I'd like to be
an announcer on the radio. Once, I read the news at CBC Edmonton,
and the guy called me in and said, "never again are you reading
the news. I don't care if we have to drag someone in
off the street or I do it. You are never doing it again,
you were awful!,"" says Gabereau. It didn't
take long before she was the backfill host for Don Harron
on CBC Radio's Morningside.
"I was apoplectic, I was looking for a bus to run me over
on my way to work that day," said Gabereau, recalling
her first day on Morningside. After 22 years with CBC
Radio, three Actra awards and more than 5,000 interviews,
Gabereau's new home is in front of a live television audience
on her very own hour-long interview/talk show for CTV.
Original Air Date - November 23, 1999
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