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'Battle of the Blades' host honours coach
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TVGuide.ca |
| Date: |
October 11, 2013 |
| Author: |
Amber Dowling |
Battle of the Blades co-host and judge Kurt Browning has been around
the rink a few times when it comes to charity events and giving back
to the community. But, in a new show that premieres Saturday night,
he's turning the tables and giving back to someone who likes to
... give back.
Walk the Walk is a new Canadian docu-reality series airing on Global
in which Canadians from the Walk of Fame meet and honour everyday
people who go above and beyond for their community. It all kicks off
Saturday with two back-to-back episode's, including Browning's
instalment. In it, he visits Nancy Eastman - an Ajax, Ont. skating
coach who has taught intellectually disabled kids since 1997, to
spread some cheer and help her raise money in a silent
auction.
"She's created Rising Stars, her own little world for these kids to
fit into," Browning tells TV Guide Canada. "That's the above and
beyond that makes her the perfect candidate for this show."
Other candidates throughout the first six-week season include a
fund-raising man who lost his wife and son to cancer in the same year,
a beat poet trying to end violence, sisters who teach developmentally
delayed children with music, and a couple who run a boxing
organization aimed at helping at-risk youth.
According to Browning, the people being honoured are so focused on
their work helping others, they have a hard time realizing when
they're being celebrated.
"Nancy was still super focused on what she was doing teaching that day
I met her," he says. "She was really cool about [meeting me], and
said, 'That's awesome that you came.' We really had trouble making her
understand that this was about her. It followed through with the
personality they said she had."
Walk the Walk debuts Saturday, Oct. 12 at 10 and 10:30 p.m. ET on
Global.
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