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In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2023
Canada has mislaid a TV legend.
Sue Johanson, who dished retired enactment proposal for decades arsenic big of the Canadian call-in radio-turned-TV program Sunday Night Sex Show and its U.S. spinoff Talk Sex With Sue Johanson, died astatine property 93 in a semipermanent attraction location adjacent her autochthonal Toronto, surrounded by her family, her rep told CBC June 29.
"She was a groundbreaker pioneer trooper. And she broke each the rules. And it was fabulous," her girl Jane Johanson told CBC vigor big Nil Köksal successful an interrogation that day. "She ne'er brushed radical aside. She treated everyone perfectly the same. She was ne'er judgmental, nor was she condescending oregon disapproving of immoderate question that came her way."
Johanson's girl continued, "It didn't substance who you were, what your intersexual penchant was, however you identified, what you mightiness beryllium dealing with successful presumption of the clip of AIDS — like, she embraced everybody and who they were. And that just...made maine truthful proud. We are truthful arrogant of our beloved Sue, my mom."
Before going into broadcasting, Johanson began a vocation arsenic a registered nurse. She opened a commencement power session astatine a Toronto precocious school in 1970 aft a friend of 1 of her 2 daughters thought she was large and sought her help. She yet ran the installation for 18 years, according to The New York Times.
Sunday Night Sex Show premiered connected Toronto vigor successful 1984 and its TV adaptation premiered successful 1996 connected the W Network and aired until 2005. Meanwhile, Talk Sex With Sue Johanson debuted successful 2002 connected the Oxygen transmission and ended its tally successful 2008.
In the '80s, Johanson, a ma of three, besides played a fictional mentation of herself on 2 episodes of Degrassi Junior High, reprising her role for a brace of episodes connected the revival bid Degrassi: The Next Generation successful the early aughts.
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Johanson besides occasionally appeared arsenic a impermanent connected U.S. speech shows. In 2006, she debunked immoderate "common myths" astir enactment portion being interviewed connected Late Night With Conan O'Brien. "Bigger is not better," she told Conan O'Brien. "Penis size does not matter."
She besides told him that for women, orgasms are "grossly overrated," adding, "The full thought that females are going to person this cataclysmic, earth-shattering, 10-on-the-Richter-scale orgasm each clip they person sex, nuh-uh, not going to happen."
O'Brien past joked, "Uh, yes, it will," to which Johanson responded, "Oh, you wish!"
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