Stephanie Lyn Beard (born August 27, 1981), better known by her stage name Sugar Lyn Beard, is a Canadian actress and radio personality. Her radio host persona uses the name "Suga BayBee", and as co-host of
YTV's ''
The Zone'' from 2001–2007, she was called "Sugar".
Early life
Beard was born in
Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. Her Suga BayBee was also a character on the ''Mad Dog and Billie'' morning show formerly aired on
Toronto
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radio station
KISS 92.5.
Beard's squeaky-voiced character began appearing on KISS when Beard was 19 years old and otherwise working as a sales clerk.
Career
Her voice in 2000 was most known as the voice of
Sailor Mini Moon in the
Cloverway
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adaptation of ''
Sailor Moon
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoko Takeuchi. It was originally serialized in Kodansha's ''shōjo'' manga magazine '' Nakayoshi'' from 1991 to 1997; the 52 individual chapters were published in 18 volumes. The s ...
''.
From June 2001 to January 26, 2007, Beard hosted and produced ''The Zone'', a series of short interstitial segments that aired between regular weekday programming on the Canadian children's network
YTV. Between 2002 and 2007, the programming block was hosted by both Beard and Carlos Bustamante, another long-time YTV host that was the host of The Zone from 2002-2018. She also hosted additional programs like ''Sugar & Avril: A Zone Special''. She and Bustamante hosted a weekly hour-long program, ''Plugged In'', on the Corus Entertainment website boomboxbaby.ca.
She also had a column in the youth newspaper, ''
Brand New Planet''; it was distributed with subscriptions to the ''
Toronto Star
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'' only. In 2006, the ''Star'' put her o