#SPOTTED: TESSA VIRTUE, SCOTT MOIR, SETH ROGEN, EVAN GOLDBERG, CHRIS HADFIELD, ANDREA MARTIN, JESSIE REYEZ + MORE HONOURED AT 2018 CANADA’S WALK OF FAME GALA

Now in its 20th year, Canada’s Walk of Fame honours excellence in multiple disciplines including Arts, Business and Science. Honourees are commemorated like in Hollywood with a star on the sidewalk in Toronto’s Entertainment District, immortalizing their contributions to their native Canada and abroad. Among those celebrated at this year’s Gala, held at Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, were:

Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir (Sports & Athletics)

Andrea Martin (Arts & Entertainment)

Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg (Arts & Entertainment)

Andy Kim (Arts & Entertainment)

Col. Chris Hadfield (Science & Technology)

Jimmy Pattison (Business & Entrepreneurship)

Leonard Cohen (Legend Inductee)

 

Jessie Reyez was named the 2018 Allan Slaight Honour Recipient, an award given to an up-and-coming force in the music industry. Past winners include the likes of The Weeknd and Shawn Mendes, who have gone on to achieve great success internationally.

Fans and Media filled the outdoor tented Red Carpet affair, followed by a taped ceremony, which is to be broadcast on CTV at a later date in December. Several familiar Canadian faces graced the event including the likes of Jully Black, Rush, The Tenors, Marilyn Denis, Brian Mulroney, Russell Peters, The Arkells’ Max Kerman, Stella Bowles, Kurt Browning and several more.

 

See some Snaps:

Tessa Virtue x Scott Moir

 

 

 

Seth Rogen x Evan Goldberg

 

Chris Hadfield

 

Stella Bowles

 

Andy Kim

 

Jimmy Pattison

 

Andrea Martin x Marilyn Denis

 

The Arkells’ Max Kerman

 

Jully Black

 

Wendy Crewson

 

Jeffrey Latimer (Canada’s Walk of Fame CEO) x Rush’s Geddy Lee

 

We had the pleasure of chatting with the likes of honourees Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen (starring in Disney‘s eagerly-awaited The Lion King), Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue on the carpet. We asked them about the importance of being recognized in their own homeland.

Goldberg x Rogen: “It’s much more valuable than rest of the world combined!”.

Virtue x Moir: “We love being back in Canada. It was important for us to train on Canadian soil in the leading-up to the  2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games games. It’s thrilling to be back here, it’s home. It means so much more to us to be given the magnitude of what it means to be Canadian and the support we’ve received over the years. We should be giving Canadians something in return. We keep getting these honours and I wish we could give Canadians a slight glimmer of what they’ve given us.”.

We ask what they’re most excited about at the 2018 Canada’s Walk of Fame Gala.

Goldberg x Rogen: “Seeing the little ‘maple leaf’  on the ground! We don’t often get awards because of some of the things we’ve made. We get to see a version of it (gesturing to the unveiling of the star). We get to touch it, lick it and all that!  We’re just the story of every Canadian boy. It’s great!”.

Virtue x Moir: “The inductees are what I’m (Moir) most excited about. I can’t believe I’m up for the same type of award as Chris Hadfield. To be in the same room. I think that’s going to be a highlight.”.

 

See some highlights from the Gala:

 

More on Canada’s Walk of Fame here.

 

Photography taken on the NIKON D3400

Video recorded on the Samsung S7 Plus

 

(Photo/video credit: Mr. Will Wong/Julie Wright)