Jian Ghomeshi

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Jian Ghomeshi, a writer and former CBC Radio broadcaster, is a Canadian musician, writer, and former CBC Radio broadcaster.

He appeared as a vocalist and drummer in the Thornhill-based folk-pop group Moxy Früvous from 1990 to 2000.

He became a television and radio broadcaster in the 2000s.

He has hosted The CBC Newsworld TV show Play (2002–2005), the CBC Radio One radio show The National Playlist (2005–2006), and the CBC Radio One show Q, which he co-created and hosted from 2007 to 2014, among other things.

In 2014 and 2015, Q, which features interviews with influential cultural and entertainment celebrities, became the most rated show in its timeslot in CBC history.

Ghomeshi pleaded not guilty to the charges in late 2015, and his trial began in early 2016.

On March 24, 2016, he was cleared of five of the charges.

After Ghomeshi signed a peace bond and apologized to his accuser, the Crown dismissed the remaining charge on May 11, 2016.

In April 2017, Ghomeshi unveiled "The Ideation Project," a new online venture.

The New York Review of Books, October 11, 2018, Ghomeshi's essay "Reflections from a Hashtag," which resulted in widespread criticism for the magazine.

Early life

Jian Ghomeshi was born in London, England, United Kingdom, to Iranian parents Farhang (Frank), a civil engineer, and Azar (Sara) Ghomeshi. Jian was seven years old when he and his sister, Jila Ghomeshi, were living in Toronto before settling in Thornhill, Ontario. Thornhill was described as a "secure and quiet suburb in which conformity was coveted," Ghomeshi said. On our street, the dwellings all looked very similar, and the majority of the houses had large lawns and nice trees." He visited Tehran twice as a child, once at the age of two and the other at age five.

A Muslim, Ghomeshi, was born into a liberal family that was initially enthusiastic about the 1979 Iranian Revolution but later celebrated Christmas and Easter, and has stated being raised in a predominantly Jewish household. Ghomeshi "was very aware of his appearance and his East London accent" when he was in Canada as a young man. He was mocked by colleagues, who branded him "Blackie," "Paki," and "terrorist."

Ghomeshi attended Thornle Secondary School, where he served as the president of the student council. Even though he was a non-smoker, dressed "new wave" and listened to David Bowie, Talking Heads, and Rush, he wrote that during his teenage years he ensured that his clothes smelt of cigarette smoke to give him "social status." As a student, Ghomeshi started a short-lived band with a few of his classmates called Urban Transit. Jila's older sister, Jila, became a linguistics scholar, and their parents had initial reservations about his less-traditional career path—the difference between busking and begging being lost on his father was unclear—but Ghomeshi has said they eventually accepted his choices.

When he matriculated at York University in the theatre program in 1985, he was a committed feminist and budding progressive activist (in his memoirs, he describes himself as a "theatre geek"). He received a record number of votes in his election to head the student government in 1990, which he renamed the York Federation of Students. Ghomeshi, the president, introduced bilingualism, fought for abortion rights, free tuition, and ending "institutional bigotry," while removing "ethnic" funds from student organizations that he suspected of "sexism, bigotry, homophobia, and other exclusionary policies. Though debating fraternities and sororities for "sexism," he defended the school's female-only Women's Centre and was one of the few men allowed inside. When former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney visited campus, Ghomeshi hurled macaroni at him. Progressives have now traced the roots of the “activist student protest” that has swept over York since Ghomeshi's radical leadership.

Ghomeshi graduated from York with a bachelor's degree in political science and a double minor in history and women's studies in 1995, after taking time off to play guitar.

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Career

Murray Foster, Tracy Jones, Reno Manfredi, and John Ruttle formed a group called Tall New Buildings in 1983, a Ghomeshi and friends. Before breaking up in 1988, the band released two 12" EPs and appeared on and out of Toronto. Mike Ford, Foster, and Ghomeshi, Foster formed The Chia Pets, a band formed in 2007.

The three siblings were brought together by Dave Matheson in 1989 to form Moxy Früvous, a politically-pop group that went on to record eight albums before going on indefinite hiatus in 2001. Moxy Früvous was initially inspired by street-performing or busking bands, and Ghomeshi and his bandmates started out by playing on Toronto's streets. Ghomeshi performed and played drums. On the band's first album, he was credited as "Jean" rather than Jian, but the band's first album was reverted to the original spelling of his name for subsequent albums. Moxy Früvous was a year before being formed, opening for headliners like Bob Dylan. In 1992 (gold in Canada), the band's debut independent EP, "over 50,000 copies" of their debut independent EP. After selling over 100,000 copies in Canada, Bargainville's debut album Bargainville made it to the top of the charts in 1994. In 1994, the band was also nominated for a Juno Award as Band of the Year. They sold over 500,000 copies of their albums in Canada and the United States over the course of eight albums, as well as an appearance on NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien. In July 2001, Ghomeshi's first solo album, The First 6 Songs, was released.

According to a 1996 video tape, Ghomeshi disdained his followers, claiming on camera that those paying to see the band's shows were "losers" and "fucking idiots." David Yuhnke, who was on the recording, suspecting that Ghomeshi was joking, he mentioned that the room's atmosphere was "sarcasm-laded," but said he was unsure whether [Ghomeshi] was serious or not."

In 1999, Ghomeshi started a correspondence with Sally Block, a 16-year-old girl who was a Moxy Früvous supporter. This went on for three years and included in-person meetings where Ghomeshi is said to have been "handsy" with her. They had a falling out in 2002 and Block broke into Ghomeshi's email account, which was a disaster. Ghomeshi tried to have her banned from "FruCon" – a Moxy Früvous convention – and that criminal charges against her were filed against her. She was able to attend FruCon, but Ghomeshi dismissed the subject after her father accused him of "carrying on this kind of friendship with an underage teen."

Jian Ghomeshi Productions Inc., a Ghomeshi Productions Inc., managed musician Martina Sorbara (now with the band Dragonettes) and created Dar Williams' music. Lights were a project by electropop artist Lights from 2007 to 2014, during which she received the Juno Award for Best New Artist and was nominated for several more. After being accused of sexual assault in 2014, the lights first defended him, but later dropped her as her boss, saying, "I rushed to protect my boss of 12 years." I'm now aware that my remarks seem to be insensitive to those concerned, and for this, I am deeply sorry."

In 2002, Ghomeshi became the host of CBC Newsworld's Play, a Canadian and international showcase of the arts. Played for three seasons and received the Gemini Award. He has also written columns for The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star. 50 Tracks and 50 Tracks was Ghomeshi's radio show in Toronto (now CBC Radio One and CBC Radio 2). He hosted The National Playlist, a radio One program from late 2005 to early 2006, from late 2005 to early 2006.

Ghomeshi was the host of Q, a program on CBC Radio One that airs twice a day, and on over 170 stations in the United States through Public Radio International. Woody Allen, Paul McCartney, Salman Rushdie, Barbara Walters, William Shatner, Jay-Z, Leonard Cohen, and others were interviewed as the host of Q. In 2012, Ghomeshi received the Gold Award for Best talk show host at the New York Festivals' International Radio Awards. During his time as host of Q, Ghomeshi had a weekly audience of over 2.5 million viewers in Canada and 550,000 viewers in the United States, and 550,000 in the United States.

The 2009 Dora Mavor Moore Awards ceremony was hosted in Ghomeshi, Japan. He had been supposed to host the Scotiabank Giller Prize Awards gala in November 2014 but was forced to do so in October by comedian Rick Mercer. Wab Kinew, the previous year's champion, was named host of the CBC competition Canada Reads by Wab Kinew in the same month.

In December 2014, the CBC announced that it would not be rebroadcasting Ghomeshi's interviews and that it would no longer be removing them from the CBC's online archive. Reactions to this decision were quick and varied, and after further deliberations by CBC management, the decision was reversed.

Billy Bob Thornton, a comedian and singer, appeared on Q on April 8, 2009. Thornton's acting career was chronicled, and Ghomeshi added, "he's always meant to make music, but he was delayed." Thornton seemed confused and gave vague, evasive responses to Ghomeshi's subsequent interview questions. Thornton replied with a rambling review of his childhood magazine, Famous Monsters of Filmland, as he inquired about his musical tastes and influences as a child. Thornton continued in the interview that the explanation for his uncooperative responses was that Ghomeshi had been "instructed not to discuss" his film career but had done so.

Thornton said that Canadians did not get up and move or throw things at concerts, and that they were referred to as "mashed potatoes without the gravy." "Oh, we've got some gravy up here too." Ghomeshi referred to the interview as one of the most difficult he had ever done. He likened the international media coverage that followed the interview to being "in the middle of a tsunami." Canadians reacted to Ghomeshi's "professionalism and demeanor in which he handled the situation [and] the show received almost unanimous praise for the host after the show.

Ghomeshi told his coworkers at the CBC that the Toronto Star was investigating reports that an ex-girlfriend had abused non-consensual rough sex and denied this accusation. Navigator Ltd., a crisis management company, had been recruited to work with both Ghomeshi and the CBC.

Journal Jesse Brown contacted the CBC in early summer 2014 and warned that Ghomeshi's behavior had escalated to his work environment. The company investigated and found that there were no workplace complaints against Ghomeshi. "Almost all known employees on... Q were not contacted by CBC staff as part of an investigation," CBC Television's The Fifth Estate's report revealed. Ghomeshi denied the allegations again, but the Star refused to go forward with the story at the time.

Brown tweeted in October 2014 that he was working on a report that would be "worse than embarrassing for certain groups." He later stated that he was referring to an unrelated subject, but Ghomeshi, a Canadian journalist, ordered a meeting with CBC executives on October 23. The CBC later viewed what it later described as "scientific evidence that Jian caused physical injury to a woman." Ghomeshi's bosses lewd text messages on a CBC-owned cellphone and a graphic personal sex videos, according to Vice.

Ghomeshi announced on October 24 that he would take an indefinite leave of absence from the CBC to deal with personal matters. Two days later, the CBC halted his service, with a spokesperson saying "news came to our attention recently that in CBC's decision, it has barred us from continuing our discussions with Jian." According to Ghomeshi, his dismissal was triggered by fear of an alleged smear campaign launched by an ex-girlfriend, who could reveal personal information about his sex life. In addition, Ghomeshi said he turned down a CBC call to "walk away quietly." The CBC Radio's Chris Boyce, the station's president, denied that such a bid had been made.

Ghomeshi also filed a $55 million lawsuit against the CBC, alleging that the corporation misappropriated "personal and confidential information provided to it in confidence." He also filed "a union lawsuit alleging wrong dismissal and defamation," and claimed that he "does not participate in non-consensual role play or sex, and that any suggestion to the contrary is defamatory." On November 25, 2014, Ghomeshi announced his divorce. The terms of the agreement provided that Ghomeshi will pay the CBC $18,000 in legal fees.

Ghomeshi's debut, 1982, is a literary non-fiction book that falls in the year of his youth. It was published on September 18, 2012. It's a memoir of Ghomeshi's life as a boy in Thornhill, his struggle to fit in as one of the few non-white kids in his neighborhood, as well as his goal of imitating his idol David Bowie.

Critics generally dismissed 1982's works as a disappointment. Zoe Whittall, a Canadian writer, novelist, and TV journalist, called it a "funny, nostalgic, and enthralling read, especially for music nerds of a particular age." Stephen Carlick slammed the book, saying that Ghomeshi's attempt to appeal to the diverse audience that listened to Q made it "uneven and often tedious" to read, prompting the reader to ask who read the book after the prologue, which Carlick referred to as "1982 for Dummies." "Ghomeshi is a kind guy, inoffensive and genial," Carlick said, but the book, "trying to appeal to everyone," is spread "too thin."

Penguin Random House Canada, his publisher, said in October 2014 that it would not publish his second book "in light of recent events" following allegations of sexual assault.

In The New York Review of Books, Ghomeshi's essay titled "Reflections from a Hashtag," a 3,000 word essay, was published on October 11, 2018. The magazine's editors confirmed that Ghomeshi's essay received "significant feedback from readers" and admitted to "failures in the presentation and editing of his book," adding that readers should have been warned of the "serious origins and number of charges against him; in addition, the editors updated the online version of the essay, giving a recap of these allegations. The publication of the book sparked a "storm of criticism" from major figures in literature, an apology from the magazine, and editor Ian Buruma's dismissal.

"The piece is brimming with truth, omissions, evasions, and mischaracterizations of what he [Ghomeshi] did, what he is accused of doing, and what happened to him as a result," Jesse Brown wrote in Canadaland, "Much of which are matters of public record." Brown also stated that although "The New York Review of Books" featured Ghomeshi's essay under the grave cover headline "THE FALL OF MEN," his "fall of Jian Ghomeshi is not indicative of male, mankind, masculinity, or anything else dire." "One man was hurting people and abusing their positions," he said.

In April 2017, Ghomeshi launched The Ideation Project, a music and podcast collection based in Ghomeshi's hometown, which featured all original words, music, recordings, and production. "Exiles" was the Ghomeshi's first monologue on the subject of what it means to not have a homeland. There are 13 "tracks" on various topics in Season 1. After one season, the show was cancelled.

Ghomeshi and a partner launched Roqe, a podcast that aimed at the global Iranian diaspora in mid-April 2020. The podcast focuses on Iranian cultural topics, and guests include Hamed Esmael, kickboxer Farinaz Lari, and Bollywood actress Mandana Karimi. A special episode included a tribute to Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, an investigation of Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh, as well as a look at the Iranian protests from 2019-2020. "Roqe" is a Farsi word that refers to "candid, or straightforward in conversation."

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Awards

• Favourite New Group (Moxy Früvous), CASBY Awards (1993)
• Best Media Personality, NOW Magazine (2009)
• Gold Award for Best Talk Show Interview, New York Festivals International Radio Awards (2010)
• Gold Award for Best Talk Show Host, New York Festivals International Radio Awards (2012)