Joyce Davidson, television personality
Joyce Davidson —a television personality in Canada and the United States – died on 7 May 2020 from Covid-19.
Davidson was a young housewife in Hamilton, Ontario when she entered a beauty contest and won $400 and a trip to New York City. Her contest victory led to her picture appearing in a few magazines. In 1954, the CBC Television's Hamilton affiliate, CHCH-TV opened and Davidson, who had been working in a factory, applied for a job and was hired as a kitchen helper on a cooking show. She then began appearing in television commercials on CHCH and then at CBLT in nearby Toronto.
In 1956, she was hired to fill a vacancy as a presenter and interviewer on CBC Television's Tabloid, a national current affairs program with a light entertainment...
