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Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Canadian Talk Show Host Dini Petty Returning To TV Aged 80 With ‘Trailblazing Talks'
EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Canadian talk show host and broadcaster Dini Petty is returning to network TV aged 80. She will host the one-hour special Trailblazing Talks on Canadian channel The News Forum this summer, with production completed in Toronto. More from Deadline 'Amazing Race Canada' Maker Insight Productions Promotes Trio To Co-Chief Content Officer Roles 'Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent' Producer Cameron Pictures Hires Karen Tsang From Pier 21 From Wrexham To The Rink: Edmonton Oilers Docuseries 'The Great Ones' Coming From Ryan Reynolds' Maximum Effort In the show, Petty will have candid conversations with Canadian Senator, former rower and three-time Olympian gold-medalist Marnie McBean, and actor, producer and Reelworld Screen Institute founder and Executive Director Tonya Williams. She will also share highlights of memorable moments from her original interviews with both guests, who appeared on The Dini Petty Show, the Canadian daytime talk show that ran from 1989 to 1999. Petty is one of Canada's most recognizable broadcasters and radio hosts, known for her trademark pink jumpsuits. While working for Canadian radio station CKEY, she became the first female traffic reporter to pilot her own helicopter, clocking 5,000 hours of flight. She went on to be co-anchor of CityTV's newscast CityPulse News at 6 before establishing herself as a major daytime talk show host on the ratings-winning CityLine before moving to CTFO (part of CTV) for The Dini Petty Show. She later fronted a radio show and returned to guest-host episodes of CityLine, which remains on air. In total, her journalism won her her six CanPro Awards for Television Excellence and the prestigious NATPE International Iris Award. She also landed four Gemini nominations and took home the Canadian of Distinction Award. In recent years, she has performed a one-woman play, A Broad View, about her own life. She also appeared in Canadian short film Boundless, whose creator, Kate Campbell, is showrunner of Trailblazing Talks. 'My first television appearance was at age 12. It was not a good beginning, and I swore I'd never go into the business, but fate had other plans,' said Petty. 'Now, 68 years later, at age 80, I'm back.' Campbell is the creator and showrunner of Trailblazing Talks. The actor, vocalist and producer has appeared on screen in Oscar-nominated feature Gone Girl and played a prosecutor in the fourth season of CBS series in the Dark. Other roles have come in The Murdoch Mysteries, April Mullen's Badsville and Bell Fibe TV series BIKE. She is currently attached to direct two films, women-driven psychological thriller Satisfaction and Green Mountain State, which was a finalist in the 2022 Sundance Writer's Lab. Campbell executive produces alongside the former VP and General Manager of Discovery Channel Canada, Ken MacDonald, who is known for commissioning a suite of successful Canadian shows such as Highway Thru Hell, Heavy Rescue 401, Canada's Worst Driver, Coldwater Cowboys and Frontier. Petty and Marina Cordoni of Marina Cordoni Entertainment are also exec producers on Trailblazing Talks. Former broadcaster and CRTC commissioner Martha Wilson is a consulting producer. 'The time is now for a new kind of conversation, one that honors the women who've shaped our world,' said Campbell. 'I created this one-hour special to celebrate broadcast icon Dini Petty's powerful return to television at 80, alongside two remarkable trailblazers from her past.''Dini Petty is truly a force of nature,' added MacDonald. 'It's such a joy to see her back in front of the cameras where she rightfully belongs. We are honored that she has chosen to step back into the spotlight to host this exciting new program.' The News Forum is a privately-owned Canadian national network focused on integrity, balance, inclusion of voices and promotion of democracy – all of which have become increasingly important to the country in 2025 following Donald Trump's threats to turn Canada into the 51st state. During his successful election campaign, Liberal leader Mark Carney's pledged to further fund public broadcaster the CBC to protect news journalism. Best of Deadline 'Stick' Release Guide: When Do New Episodes Come Out? 'Stick' Soundtrack: All The Songs You'll Hear In The Apple TV+ Golf Series 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery
Metro
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Inside 'feud' between John Lennon's sons as Sean Ono speaks out
Sean Ono Lennon has spoken out about his 'feud' with his half-brother Julian Lennon, following years of reported bad blood. John Lennon and his second wife Yoko Ono are the subject of a new film titled One to One: John and Yoko, that focuses on the couple's controversial relationship in a brief moment in the 1970s. The couple's son Sean was involved in the project and oversaw audio mastering for the concert footage. The film has reignited interest in the couple and their family, and has led to speculation about a feud between Lennon's two children. Sean, 49, has now shared a post to encourage fans to respect the fact that there is no feud and that they have a good relationship. 'Here, we do not accept comparisons and erroneous creations of fights about two people that John Lennon loved the most: his children,' read a post from a Lennon fan account, which Sean reposted to his Instagram Stories. He also added: 'Peace and much love.' The text was written on top of an image of Sean and Julian, 62, Lennon's son with his first wife Cynthia Powell, at the 1986 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, when they inducted Elvis Presley. In the image, Sean would have been around 11, while his half-brother would have been around 23. The relationship between the brothers has been a point of speculation from Beatles fans online for several months. Some have highlighted Julian's comments about his step-mother Ono, as evidence of tensions, with claims he had to buy back letters he had written to his father because she refused to give them to him. In 1996, he sued his father's estate and revealed in 1999 on The Dini Petty Show that he used some of that money to buy some of the other items that once belonged to his father. However, in the same interview, any negative feelings towards his stepmother were separate from his half-brother. Julian explained he only had warm feelings towards his little brother, who was caught in the middle of a difficult situation. Other TikTok sleuths speculated that Julian had been abandoned by his father after Lennon wrote the song Beautiful Boy about his younger son Sean and not his elder son. In December 2024, Julian shared images of him spending one one-on-one time where they sat down for dinner together. The black and white images showed the pair at The Dakota, a building where his father lived with Yoko and Sean, and was eventually shot in front of. 'A Goodnight kiss for my brother, after spending the evening with him, having a lil dinner & chatting the night away, at The Dakota. Something we rarely get to do… Thankful.' In 2022, Julian told People that Sean was his 'best mate'. 'We're brothers and we love each other deeply on that level,' he added. 'We just talk daily, same as anybody would.' In the same interview he revealed that he and his brother bonded over music, food, exercise, and photography, and have supported each other in recent years. He revealed that he was wary about attending a screening of the Beatles movie, Get Back, but was encouraged to go by his brother. More Trending 'But [brother] Sean was adamant and felt committed, and we were both in L.A.… so I said, 'Listen, I'll go with you. Let's go together, let's go as a team.' And it was great to do that.' Julian has previously had cancer, and in December 2024 he told fans he underwent surgery after finding two moles, on his shoulder and his forearm, one of which was Melanoma. He encouraged fans to get themselves checked: 'It only takes a short while to do so, and you may just be saving your own life, at the end of the day… so please, for the sake of yourself, your family and friends just go to your Dr and do what must be done… 'I love life and I want to live for a very long time and this is one way, and a choice, that could determine your future… I wish you all happy holidaze and a healthy long life…' Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Horror fans get 'chills' from brutal I Know What You Did Last Summer trailer MORE: George Clooney baffles fans over shock confession about marriage to wife Amal MORE: Former child star Sophie Nyweide dies aged 24
