Mary Josephine "Mary Jo" Eustace is a Canadian actress, singer-songwriter, comedian, model, author, and sous-chef best known as co-host of the Canadian cooking TV seriesWhat's for Dinner?.
In 1995 Eustace appeared on What's for Dinner?, one of Life Network's most popular series, with Ken Kostick throughout its run during the late 1990s. Later, she served as a regular on Canada AM in 2000-2001. In April 2007, Eustace reunited with Kostick as the original morning hosts of What's for Breakfast on new Toronto radio station PROUD FM, a station licensed to appeal to the city's LGBT community. She stepped down from the show in June 2008, and subsequently co-hosted He Said, She Said with Ken and Mary Jo, a cooking show similar to What's for Dinner? on W Network which debuted in July 2008. In 1994, Eustace recorded a solo musical album entitled Bone & Marrow. In 2000, Eustace wrote a cookbook: "By My Side" with Johanna Weinstein. On March 3, 2011, Eustace served as moderator for an HBO documentary that aired in 2012. Filming took place at Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas. The session discussed sex and cheating on spouses/significant others. The panel consisted of Ed Young, Jr. and Noel Biderman.
Personal life
Eustace married actor Dean McDermott on July 24, 1993. She moved to Los Angeles when McDermott went south to develop his acting career. They had one child, Jack Montgomery McDermott and were in the process of adopting a baby girl, Lola, when McDermott began his affair with Tori Spelling. After 13 years of marriage, McDermott and Eustace divorced on February 12, 2006, and he married Spelling three months later. She later finished the adoption of her daughter Lola Eustace as a single parent. Although McDermott was awarded joint custody of their son Jack, Eustace moved back to Canada with her children. She returned to Los Angeles in 2008, and has been based there since. Eustace wrote about the break-up of her marriage in the book "Divorce Sucks: What to do when irreconcilable differences, lawyer fees, and your ex's Hollywood wife make you miserable" which was released in October 2009. She also wrote about her personal divorce story in "Palm Springs". Eustace and McDermott buried the hatchet on his "Daddy Issues" podcast in October 2019.
