Role Television personality | Name Tanya Kim Occupation Television host Residence Toronto, Canada | |
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TV personality Tanya Kim wants you to join her in this year's Friends for Life! Walk™
Tanya Kim is a Canadian television personality. She was a personality most recently for etalk.
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- TV personality Tanya Kim wants you to join her in this years Friends for Life Walk
- Tanya kim wants to know who you will be walking for in this year s friends for life walk
- Early life
- Career
- Charity work
- Personal life
- References
Tanya kim wants to know who you will be walking for in this year s friends for life walk
Early life
Kim was born and raised in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario to Korean immigrant parents. Her grandmother moved from Seoul to Canada to raise Kim and her older brother, Richard. She studied classical piano and dance, and attended Sherry Walsh Academy of Dance Arts and Davey Dance Company in Sault Ste. Marie. Kim graduated from Sir James Dunn Collegiate and Vocational School and attended Ryerson University from 1994 to 1998, graduating from the journalism program, specializing in broadcasting. While at Ryerson, she worked as an intern at MuchMusic.
Career
After graduating, she worked as a videographer at MuchMusic before joining CTV's The Chatroom as a music reporter and becoming special correspondent for Canadian Idol for two seasons. In 2003, she joined etalk, co-hosting the show with Ben Mulroney.
On etalk, Kim has worked red carpets at the Juno Awards and the Academy Awards, and covered special events like Live 8 and Live Earth. In 2009, Kim hosted We Day, in support of Free The Children, for the third year in a row.
Kim also hosted etalk Playlist in 2005, a six-episode chart show/concert mini-series that expanded on etalk's popular Playlist segment. The series was broadcast before a studio audience from the historic Masonic Temple concert hall. The 30-minute shows included live studio performances, exclusive interviews, breaking news and chart reviews.
In February 2010, Kim joined etalk host Ben Mulroney along with etalk reporters Leah Miller, Elaine Lui, Susie Wall and Jeanne Beker in Vancouver to cover the 2010 Olympic Winter Games for CTV. In November 2014, she was laid off by Bell Media, which runs CTV.
In 2015 Kim returned to CityTV as host with Entertainment City and Your World This Week.
Aside from her work on etalk, Kim has appeared in Puppets Who Kill, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Instant Star, and the film Glitter starring Mariah Carey.
Charity work
In November 2008 Tanya Kim announced a partnership with CARE Canada, a major humanitarian and international development charitable organization, to promote CARE Canada's I Am Powerful women's empowerment campaign. She travelled to Zambia to generate awareness and gain first-hand knowledge of the strength and resiliency of women in the developing world.
Personal life
Kim currently lives in Toronto. She has a dog named Miss Louise, an 85-pound bull mastiff.