Traci Melchor
Traci Melchor | |
|---|---|
 Traci Melchor | |
| Born | Pickering, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Television personality |
| Years active | 2000–present |
Traci Melchor is a Canadian television personality, best known for her roles on CTV's entertainment magazine series etalk and the reality competition series Canada's Drag Race. Melchor is also the former cohost of CTV's The Social.[1]
Early life[]
Originally from Pickering, Ontario, Melchor studied radio and television broadcasting at Seneca College.[citation needed]
Career[]
She joined CHUM Limited as an entertainment reporter for Citytv,[2] later becoming a cohost of MuchMusic's RapCity. She moved to Los Angeles becoming an entertainment reporter and host for E![3] and taking acting roles in a number of television series, before taking a new role with MuchMusic's sister station MuchMoreMusic.
In 2008, Melchor joined CTV's eTalk as a reporter, and is currently one of their senior correspondents.[4]
In 2020, Melchor appeared in multiple episodes of Canada's Drag Race, the Canadian edition of RuPaul's Drag Race as ‘Canada’s Squirrel Friend’ and a guest judge for the finale episode.[5] In June 2021, it was announced that Melchor would return for the second season as a main judge alongside Brooke Lynn Hytes, Amanda Brugel, and Brad Goreski, replacing Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman and Stacey McKenzie.[6]
She also regularly contributes to The Marilyn Denis Show, CP24 Breakfast, CTV News and Toronto's CHUM-FM.
References[]
- ^ "New talk show 'The Social' offers all-female roundtable and an interactive twist" Archived 2014-11-26 at the Wayback Machine. Victoria Times-Colonist, August 30, 3013.
- ^ "Go West, young woman". The Globe and Mail, December 29, 1999.
- ^ "Cross-country makeovers". The Province, December 29, 2002.
- ^ "Speakers: Traci Melchor". Banff World Media Festival, 2020.
- ^ "Three fabulous judges, and one squirrel friend, are ready to preside over ‘Canada’s Drag Race’". eTalk, September 26, 2019.
- ^ Joey Nolfi, "Canada's Drag Race season 2 adds new head judges amid panel shake-up". Entertainment Weekly, June 29, 2021.
External links[]
- Traci Melchor at IMDb
- Canadian television talk show hosts
- Canadian television reporters and correspondents
- Black Canadian broadcasters
- People from Pickering, Ontario
- Living people
- Black Canadian women
- CTV Television Network people
- Canadian women television journalists
- Participants in Canadian reality television series