Ben Mulroney

At 48 years old, Ben Mulroney has this physical status:

Benedict Martin Mulroney (born March 9, 1976) is a Canadian television presenter.

He is the oldest son of former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

Early life and education

Mulroney was born in Montreal, Quebec, and grew up in Ottawa, Ontario. He is the second of four children born to former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Mila Pivnicki Mulroney, both of Serbian descent. Mulroney is one of many children of former Prime Ministers whose became Canadian media stars between 1998 and 2001.

Caroline, his older sister, is the Minister of Transportation for Ontario, despite being a losing candidate for the 2018 Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership race. During the leadership race, Maclean's later revealed that he assisted her in rehearsing scripts.

Mulroney attended Lyce Claudel d'Ottawa and the Hotchkiss School and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in history from Duke University. He obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree from Université Laval later in life. It was revealed that all the Mulroney children's university education was funded by the funds that his father received from Karlheinz Schillert at the Oliphant hearings.

Personal life

Mulroney became engaged to his girlfriend, fashion designer and stylist Jessica Brownstein, on December 28, 2007, in Montreal. They were married in October 30, 2008 in a private ceremony at St. Patrick's Basilica, Montreal. Brownstein first met Brownstein as a boy at all-boys Selwyn House School while attending the same time as her sister school Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School.

They have three children, Brian Gerald Alexander Mulroney and John Benedict Dimitri Mulroney, who are fraternal twins, as well as daughter Isabel Veronica Mulroney (born June 12, 2013).

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding reception, as well as their three children, were page boys and flower girl.

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Career

Mulroney wrote a regular column in the Toronto Sun in the late 1990s. In 2000, he began his career as the Quebec City reporter for The Chatroom, the CTV-owned digital television network Talktv, and he became one of five co-hosts of the show in July 2001. He was a entertainment reporter on Canada AM from 2001 to 2002. He hosted Canadian Idol from 2003 to 2008.

Mulroney is best known as the former host of the entertainment news show eTalk from 2002 to 2020, where he covered major entertainment events, including the Oscars, the Golden Globes, and the Juno Awards. Mulroney added radio show host to his résumé with the launch of the CHUM Radio show, etalk 20. The two-hour radio show was syndicated on 11 radio stations around Canada and ranked in the top 20 chart-topping hits, which also included celebrity interviews.

He was named as UNICEF Canada's National Ambassador in 2006. Mulroney and others from etalk covered the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games for CTV in February 2010.

Mulroney resigned as host of etalk on June 22, 2020, saying, "We need more Black voices, more Indigenous voices, more people of colour in the media, and more women of colour in general, as well as every other occupation – and that's why I resigned from my role as host of etalk, so we can have a fresh perspective and a new voice." His resignation came as a result of a controversy in which his wife was accused of assaulting Sasha Exeter, a black influencer.

He was announced as the cohost of CTV's new morning show Your Morning, which took over the venerable Canada AM in June 2016. He left the program in 2021 in order to "pursue a career as a producer" by creating unique projects for both Canadian and international audiences.

Mulroney joined ABC News in June 2012 as a contributor to Good Morning America. While serving as a contributor to Good Morning America, former ABC News President Ben Sherwood announced that Mulroney would temporarily substitute Dan Harris during the weekends. Mulroney's previous appearances as a temporary co-host on Live with Kelly were followed by this.

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