The end of Cityline came as a shock to Tracy Moore. After 16 years hosting the hugely popular Canadian lifestyle show, she found herself having to reevaluate her career – and her life.
Now, for the first time, Tracy is ready to share what happened behind the scenes, and she’s not holding back.
“Being able to tell my story straight out of my mouth has felt incredibly liberating,” the Toronto-based media personality, 51, tells HELLO! Canada of her upcoming memoir, Hear Me Out. “I think there are sides of me that I am just learning about myself, so I think that people are going to be seeing parts of me they didn’t know existed.”
The book explores love, loss and the career that made Tracy a familiar face in Canadian homes. It also takes readers through the unexpected end of CityLine.
“It was an absolute death,” she says bluntly. “It was the process that you go through when something or someone dies. I think readers will learn a lot more about that time in my life and what I was going through, and a lot of the behind-the-scenes details around an ending that a lot of us [on the show] didn’t expect.”
But when HELLO! Canada catches up with Tracy at her Toronto home, the mood is very different. Joined by her husband, journalist Lio Perron, and their children, 18-year-old Sidney and 15-year-old Eva, Tracy shows the upbeat – and witty – side that her legions of fans know and love.
Humour, she says, has helped keep her and Lio close through 20 years of marriage. “We’re pretty silly, but we’re both really serious, too. Lio can talk about politics for a long time. We are both writers – we spend a lot of time by ourselves, reading new things and coming up with our own theories and ideas,” she shares.
“But man, we’re silly. The whole family is silly. There’s a lot of Lio tapping my butt as I walk up the stairs. There’s a lot of me flashing my boobs at him. There’s a lot of calling each other out on stuff. And the kids can roast! They roast me, they roast Lio, we all roast each other. It’s a vibe.”
Tracy is making room for new experiences, too. She recently took up roller skating, a weekly class she enjoys precisely because she hasn’t mastered it.
“One day I woke up and I’m like, ‘What mood am I in?’ And it’s like, ‘I want to roller skate!’ The best thing I do once a week is this [roller dancing] class. I’m not good at it, but I think that’s a really important thing for me to do: to just have fun and laugh and feel good in my body.”
She’s also learning to slow down. “I’ve been doing a lot of sky-gazing, hanging out with trees and reading with my feet in the grass. I’m finding a lot of solace in moments of quiet,” she says.
As she prepares to share her story, Tracy hopes readers will recognize something of their own lives in it.
“I think readers are going to see themselves reflected [in the book] if they were ever a parent who went through postpartum depression, a woman who battled their body again and again, someone who had hair trauma [as a Black woman], a racialized person in predominantly white spaces, or someone who was considered an underdog and had to step into very big shoes.”
Read the full story in the Aug. 24 issue of HELLO! Canada, available on Apple News +
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