Ben Mulroney
Benedict "Ben" Mulroney (born
March 9,
1976 in
Montréal,
Québec) is a
Canadian television host.
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.
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.
Mulroney was one of several children of former Prime Ministers who became Canadian media personalities between
1998 and
2001. The others were
Catherine Clark,
Justin Trudeau and
Alexandre Trudeau. His performance as television host has received mixed reviews; he has even been compared by some longtime viewers and critics to 1970s and 1980s Canadian TV host
Jim Perry.
Mulroney recently parodied himself on an episode of
Corner Gas entitled "Dog River Vice", and has a cameo appearance in the 2005 film,
Fantastic Four.
Ben Mulroney is a renowned chef and is rumoured to have been offered his own cooking show by CTV, likely to air during midday.
*Has met
Nelson Mandela,
Boris Yeltsin,
George W. Bush and has been to
Buckingham Palace when his father was Prime Minister.
*His father started to serve as Prime Minister of Canada when Mulroney was 7 and ended when he was 16.
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Ben Mulroney BiographyInterviews*
Audio interview with Ben Mulroney from THECOMMENTARY.CA: Thursday, 10 February 2005
