Jill Belland

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Jill Belland
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Belland in 2009
Born
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Nationality Canadian
EducationStudied at the University of Calgary in the Faculty of Communications and Culture with a concentration in Media Studies
Occupation(s)TV host and producer, dance/exercise instructor, business owner
Employer Citytv Calgary

Jill Belland is a Canadian TV personality and business person. She is a co-owner of Bare Belle in Calgary, where she provides dance and exercise training. [1] She was previously a TV host and producer at Citytv Calgary, [2] [3] where she was the "On Location Host" of Breakfast Television . [4]

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Early life

Belland was born in Edmonton and moved to Calgary at a young age. [4] She studied classical piano and trained to be a singer. [4] Belland studied at the University of Calgary. [4]

Belland joined the Calgary Stampeders Outriders cheerleading squad, [5] which she was part of for four years. [4] While with the Stampeders, she sang the national anthem at home games. [4] She has also worked as a stage actress, performing in local productions such as Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train , [6] The Full Monty , [2] and Man Out of Joint. [7] [8]

Broadcasting

Belland was hired by A-Channel in Calgary [3] (CKAL-DT was previously known as A-Channel, and is now known as Citytv Calgary). Her initial job was "Coffee Girl" doing various gopher tasks for The Big Breakfast TV show. [2] [3] She then assisted in production with the Big Breakfast show and the station's news department. [4]

In 2004, Belland was hired as an entertainment reporter for the show MTV Select . [3] (at the time A-Channel and MTV Canada were both owned by Craig Media). She was then promoted to become host [9] and producer of Wired on A-Channel in 2003. [3] [4] She also served as a host of Your City, [2] Citytv's weekday evening show.

Belland became the host and producer of The City Show, a weekend show, that won the Rosie award for "Best News Information Series" by the Alberta Motion Picture Industries Association (AMPIA) in 2006. [4] [10] [11] The City Show and Your City were cancelled in January 2010.

Belland has won AMPIA's "Best Host" award for 2009, 2010, and 2011. [3] Belland was voted "Sexiest Women" in Calgary by Fast Forward Weekly readers in 2009. [12] In 2011 she won another Rosie as Best TV Host for the Breakfast Show. [13] [14] Belland was included in Avenue Magazine's 2011 "Top 40 Under 40" list of Calgarian's. [3]

Fitness business

After covering Barre Body Studio for a segment on City in January 2013, she became a dance and fitness instructor there. [5] In February 2016 Belland and friend Kristi Stuart opened up their own barre studio together, called Bare Belle. [1]

As co-owner of Bare Belle, helped organize hundreds of other small business owners in June 2019 to call for a reduction of municipal taxes by Calgary's City Council, which did lower taxes by 10%. [15]

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