1. Joseph Frederick Motiki was born on July 31,1972 and is a Canadian actor and television host.
21 Facts About Joseph Motiki
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Joseph Motiki is best known for hosting the TVOntario children's block The TVOKids Crawlspace and the Food Network game show Ice Cold Cash.
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Joseph Motiki was born in Toronto, Ontario after his parents emigrated from their native South Africa to live in Canada.
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Joseph Motiki grew up in the Borough of East York and attended high school at East York Collegiate Institute.
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Joseph Motiki was an honours student who was active in athletics, and was president of the student government.
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In March 1995, Joseph Motiki became co-host of The TVOKids Crawlspace, TVOntario's after school block of children's programs, alongside Patty Sullivan and Kevin Brauch.
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Three months later Joseph Motiki officially replaced Brauch, who left to host other shows on TVO.
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Joseph Motiki spent four years on TVOKids, appearing at live events in Ontario and helping the show achieve its highest ratings ever or since.
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Joseph Motiki started voice acting in several animated television series.
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Joseph Motiki then provided the voice of Rocky Canyon for the TV series Rescue Heroes, subsequently voicing Rocky Canyon for the Fisher-Price action figures and the 2003 film Rescue Heroes: The Movie.
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In 2002 Joseph Motiki hosted the first two seasons of an updated version of the teen quiz show Reach for the Top, which was a high school competition for the provincial SchoolReach trivia championship.
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That same year Joseph Motiki became host of POV Sports on CBC, a showcase for athletes and sports both professional and amateur.
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Joseph Motiki worked with CBC Sports on the 90th Grey Cup broadcast, the 2003 Canada Games in New Brunswick, and the IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics from Sherbrooke, Quebec where he interviewed current 100m and 200m world record holder Usain Bolt.
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Sports From The Edge is a documentary that Joseph Motiki hosted in 2004, produced by Keith MacNeill of CBC North.
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Joseph Motiki travelled to Asia, Australia, and Europe to host the travel show Get Outta Town on Encore with Barbara Mamabolo, a TV series about how young people live around the world.
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Joseph Motiki served three times as host of the provincial Junior and Senior Championships of the Spelling Bee of Canada in 2006 and served three times as host of the Miss World Canada event.
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Joseph Motiki appeared in TV shows such as Degrassi: The Next Generation and Wingin' It; films such as Blindness and Phantom Punch; and voiced characters for several animated TV series, such as Life's a Zoo.
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Joseph Motiki has made numerous appearances on projects across various platforms.
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Joseph Motiki played himself on the Canadian web series The Casting Room with its creator Naomi Snieckus, and was a guest on the online podcast Deekast with Derek Veenhof, where he discussed numerous subjects including his career beginnings at TVOntario.
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In 2012, Joseph Motiki hosted the Food Network production Ice Cold Cash where he pretended to be an ice cream vendor who would surprise customers with questions about food and award them cash prizes for correct answers.
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Joseph Motiki was the in-stadium Athletics host for both the 2015 Pan American Games and 2015 Parapan American Games; events were held at York Lions Stadium, which was known as CIBC Athletics Stadium during the Games.