Jennifer Valentyne


Jennifer Elizabeth Valentyne is a Canadian television personality. Her longest running role was on Breakfast Television in Toronto, where she hosted the "Live Eye" and was the stand in co-host. She was the host of The Bachelor & The Bachelorette Canada After Show on W Network and a co-host on Derringer in the Morning on Q107 in Toronto.

Education and career

Valentyne graduated from David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute and earned a Radio and Television Broadcasting Diploma from Toronto's Centennial College. She began work at City Toronto in 1987, as an intern and then a graphics operator with MuchMusic. In the early 1990s she appeared occasionally as "The Prize Queen" on Speakers Corner and hosted 30-second spots called "MuchHappenings". In 1992 she became a regular as the "Singing Weathergirl" on Breakfast Television, where she worked doing "Live Eye" segments and as a fill-in co-host until her position was eliminated in April 2016.
She is a former Toronto Argonauts cheerleader and has posed as the Toronto Suns Sunshine Girl. She is also a singer-songwriter. She sings jazz standards and originals; she sings on BT Holiday Favourites, a CD released by City Toronto in 2007.
In fall 2016 she became the host of The Bachelor & Bachelorette Canada After Show on W Network, and in February 2017 she was also a co-host on Derringer in the Morning on Q107.
Beginning in March 2019, Valentyne is with Global Toronto's Global News Morning as co-anchor with Liem Vu and Marianne Dimain.
Her last day with Global Toronto was July 23, 2020.

Personal life

She is married to Greg Valentyne, a freelance producer/camera operator and founder of Heroes Beer. They have two children, Jackson and Georgia Valentyne.