Sunshine Girl
Encyclopedia
Sunshine Girl refers to pinup girls featured in most of the daily newspapers of the Sun chain in Canada
.
The feature started with the Toronto Sun
, which was launched in 1971, and was adapted from British tabloids with similar featured women. The SUNshine girls have become an iconic part of Canadian newspaper history. Typically featured on page 3 of the Sun in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, the Sunshine Girl is now usually found on the back page of the sports section. The photos usually featured a clothed or swimsuited female model, actress, or athlete, as well as amateur models, and were generally tastefully done. Famous former SUNshine girls include: Amanda Coetzer
(tennis
star), Ann Rohmer
(of Breakfast Television
), Trish Stratus
(WWE
Diva
), Stacy Keibler
(WWE Diva and Dancing with the Stars
finalist), and Krista Erickson
(Sun News Network anchor, who appeared on the date of that network's 2011 launch).
At least twice a year, the Sun Group produces and sells a calendar featuring a selection of Sunshine Girls. Typically, the Girls who are selected for the calendar are chosen by the public online and by a mail-in vote.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
.
The feature started with the Toronto Sun
Toronto Sun
The Toronto Sun is an English-language daily tabloid newspaper published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is known for its daily Sunshine Girl feature and for what it sees as a populist conservative editorial stance.-History:...
, which was launched in 1971, and was adapted from British tabloids with similar featured women. The SUNshine girls have become an iconic part of Canadian newspaper history. Typically featured on page 3 of the Sun in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, the Sunshine Girl is now usually found on the back page of the sports section. The photos usually featured a clothed or swimsuited female model, actress, or athlete, as well as amateur models, and were generally tastefully done. Famous former SUNshine girls include: Amanda Coetzer
Amanda Coetzer
Amanda Coetzer is a former professional tennis player from South Africa.Coetzer turned professional in 1988 and retired in 2004...
(tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
star), Ann Rohmer
Ann Rohmer
Ann Margaret Rohmer is a television personality on CP24 in Toronto, Canada.- Television career :In 1979, she hosted the syndicated program Show Biz. Hired by Global TV, she was a host on the award-winning magazine show That’s Life...
(of Breakfast Television
Breakfast Television
Breakfast Television is a Canadian morning news and entertainment program which airs on the Citytv stations . Each station produces its own local edition of Breakfast Television....
), Trish Stratus
Trish Stratus
Patricia Anne Stratigias , better known by her ring name Trish Stratus, is a Canadian professional wrestler, actress and television personality currently signed with WWE. She is also a former fitness model....
(WWE
World Wrestling Entertainment
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. is an American publicly traded, privately controlled entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue sources also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales...
Diva
WWE Diva
Diva is a term used by World Wrestling Entertainment , an American professional wrestling promotion, to refer to its female talent. The term is applied to women who appear as wrestlers, managers or valets, backstage interviewers, or ring announcers....
), Stacy Keibler
Stacy Keibler
Stacy Keibler is an American actress, model, and former professional wrestler and valet, best known for her work with World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment ....
(WWE Diva and Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars (US TV series)
Dancing with the Stars is a reality show airing on ABC in the United States, and CTV in Canada in 2011. The show is the American version of the British BBC television series Strictly Come Dancing...
finalist), and Krista Erickson
Krista Erickson
Krista Erickson is a Canadian journalist and the principal daytime anchor on the Sun News Network, hosting Canada Live.Prior to joining Sun News, Erickson worked for CBC Television for 11 years, most recently as a member of the network's parliamentary bureau...
(Sun News Network anchor, who appeared on the date of that network's 2011 launch).
At least twice a year, the Sun Group produces and sells a calendar featuring a selection of Sunshine Girls. Typically, the Girls who are selected for the calendar are chosen by the public online and by a mail-in vote.
Spinoffs and Knockoffs
- There was a Sunshine Boy feature in the Sun as well, but the picture was in black and white. This feature was discontinued in 2006.
- Sunshine Girl Magazine is a men's magazine published from Miami, FloridaFloridaFlorida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
. Sunshine Girl Magazine is sprung out of the Sun's annual Sunshine Girl calendar.