Who is Carolyn Mackenzie married to?

CAROLYN Mackenzie is a well-known broadcast journalist who has built a successful career.

Now, viewers want to know more about the talk show host’s family life.

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Who is Carolyn Mackenzie?

Carolyn Mackenzie is a Canadian TV journalist for Global News who works as a co-host for the network’s lifestyle talk show, The Morning Show, alongside Jeff McArthur.

As her Global News bio notes, she has over 20 years of television experience.

It continues: “With what has become ‘Canada’s morning show,’ Carolyn is honoured and thrilled to wake up with Canadians each and every morning with a coffee, a chat and a laugh.”

She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa.

Before pursuing her journalism career, Carolyn tried to make it as an actress.

Per her IMDb profile, she appeared in an episode of the 1999 TV series, Relic Hunter, and in an episode of the 1999 show, Total Recall 2070.

In a November 2022 interview with Hello! Canada, she said: “I attempted acting for a bit. I’d go on these cattle-call auditions and you’d get there and there’d be a hundred ‘yous’ – everyone’s the same because you’ve all been called for the same part. I’d think, ‘Oh gosh, what is this?'”

She stopped acting and accepted an on-air reporting role in Sydney, Nova Scotia, which kickstarted her journalism career.

However, it came “full circle” when the broadcaster was asked to portray herself on an episode of the 2021 series, Family Law.

Carolyn told the publication: “The TV show Family Law wanted me to read for them. I was so excited, asking, ‘What character? Am I going to be a lawyer? What am I going to do?’ I was so excited to go back to my roots!

“But they were like, ‘No, can you play yourself, doing a scene from your own show?'”

She continued: “I really wanted to be the one who runs into the courtroom with new evidence and throws it on the desk. But it was still kind of cool that those worlds were colliding.”

Who is Carolyn Mackenzie married to?

Carolyn has been married to a Toronto firefighter named Chris Stark for 20 years.

In her Hello! Canada interview, the journalist told the story about how the couple met, revealing that she was his medical call.

She said: “I was working out at my gym in the west end of Toronto and I passed out during a good old-fashioned step-aerobics class – I was probably wearing a very interesting workout outfit.

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“There was very little ventilation in that room and I got light-headed. I hit the floor and did a face plant, hard. I don’t remember any of that. But the next thing I know, they’ve taken me to an office and, when I come to, Chris is staring down at me.

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“He was the first responder. I could see he was cute and I could feel my face swelling by the second and I was mortified.

“I was trying to answer his questions, but also refusing to look at him, although I could tell he had a little grin on his face. He loaded me into the ambulance and we thought that was it.”

Although Carolyn didn’t think she would see Chris again, “mutual friends” set the pair up on a blind date three months later.

She continued: “Yeah, we’re about an hour into our evening at Crocodile Rock in downtown Toronto and I start talking about the scar tissue on my face.

“He asked where I got the scar from and I told him I passed out at my gym a few months back. And in that moment, he stopped, took a step back and looked at me, kind of tilting his head like a puppy dog.

“And he’s like, ‘Oh, my gosh, you’re the girl. I was the firefighter who responded to that call.’

“And then I took a step back and looked at him, and we were just realizing how unexpected this was. We were just a little bit taken by that. We were already getting along to begin with, but then this kind of put it over the top.

“The next date we didn’t go out with our friends, it was just the two of us. And when he came to my mom’s house to pick me up, he had printed off the report from my medical call and got his entire crew to sign it.

“He gave it to my mom, saying, ‘I think she’s in good hands.’ Now my mom was taken, too. She said, ‘OK, this is it. You guys will be getting married.’ And we did! It’ll be 20 years next September.”

In the same interview, Carolyn also revealed that Chris is a “foodie” and “such a great cook.”

Who are Carolyn Mackenzie’s kids?

Carolyn and Chris share two kids, including a daughter named Katelyn, whom they call Kate, and a son named Matthew.

According to Hello! Canada, both children play hockey, and Kate is an “aspiring writer and painter.”

Carolyn said of her kids: “I am inspired by Kate’s passion and determination. She’s a go-getter. And I’m impressed by Matt’s compassion and sensitivity to others.”

The TV host also said that she believes her children are “proud” of her and Chris.

She said: “You know what, I think they are proud of me and proud of Chris. They know the impact he has on people’s lives. And I think they see that I take the connections I’ve made with viewers over the years very seriously.

“They know the hours we devote to our jobs, but they also know we enjoy our jobs and we get a lot out of them and they make us who we are. And those things are so important to instill – that you’ve got to enjoy what you do.”