Anne-Marie Withenshaw is a

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television and radio personality, from

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, Canada.

Career

Withenshaw graduated from

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with a Bachelor of Arts & Science in Communications Studies. She started working on

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's French sister station, MusiquePlus, as a VJ in 1998, and remained there until 2002. While at MusiquePlus, she hosted ''Fax'', a weekly music news show, ''L'Artiste du Mois'', and ''Buzzé le Quiz Rock'', a music game show. She then moved on to French Canadian network television, as a reporter on TQS' daily entertainment program ''Flash''. After leaving Flash in 2005 to host ''La Fosse Aux Lionnes'', a daily current affairs talk-show on

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(SRC-CBC) for one season, she returned to Flash as the new host in the fall of 2006. The show was a daily 30 minute entertainment program offering a mix of local and international stories in both French and English. Although the show aired live from TQS' studios, she often hosted the show from various locations abroad, such as movie premieres, The Oscars, The Grammys or the

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. She currently hosts the celebrity interview and restaurant guide "Guide Resto Voir" on travel channel Évasion (2009–2010), put out two restaurant guides of the same name, and is one of the four hosts of the series ''C'est Juste de la TV'', on ARTV (2008–2010). Parallel to her TV career, she has worked as a radio host since 1997. From 1999 to 2005, she hosted the weekly countdown show on the

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network. In 2007, she hosted a daily radio show called ''Le Withenshow'' on

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96.9 FM. Until 2010, she was a part of the CKOI-FM morning shows ''Juste pour le fun'' and ''Midi Morency''. In the summer of 2010, she began hosting ''AM'' on

(SRC-CBC), a daily radio talk show airing nationally. From 2009 to 2014 she hosted a weekly English-language entertainment show called ''All-Access Weekend'' on

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, in which she interviewed celebrities from the world of music, fashion, film and sports. In November 2014, the show was cancelled, and Withenshaw sued the station over alleged breach of contract.

References

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