Sarah Taylor (personality)
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Early life
Taylor is from Hamilton, OntarioHamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...
, Canada
Canada
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. She studied English and Women's Studies at McMaster University
McMaster University
McMaster University is a public research university whose main campus is located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land in the residential neighbourhood of Westdale, adjacent to Hamilton's Royal Botanical Gardens...
.
Career
She was discovered in the audience for the MuchMusicMuchMusic
MuchMusic is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Bell Media. MuchMusic is dedicated to music-related programs, pop and youth culture.-History:...
show MuchOnDemand
MuchOnDemand
MuchOnDemand was an hour-long per broadcast viewer interactive television program aired on MuchMusic, Monday through Friday at 5pm ET. It was broadcast live from the Much broadcasting studio on 299 Queen Street West in Toronto. The Best of MuchOnDemand, aired Sundays at 10am ET, highlighting the...
in 2004, and was asked to be one of the VJs for the channel.
Taylor co-host
Presenter
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s many of MuchMusic's popular shows, including Combat Zone
Combat Zone
Combat Zone was a music video program on Canadian music tv station MuchMusic. The show involved two popular music videos playing the roles of the combatants. During the hour-long program, viewers could either call in or text-message their votes for one of the two competing songs...
, and MuchTakeOver
MuchTakeOver
MuchTakeOver is an interactive television program aired on Canadian music video television station MuchMusic, which provides viewers the opportunity to vote by cellphone and online for two pre-chosen contestants...
.
It was announced on February 16, 2007 on MuchMusic's website that Taylor underwent emergency surgery at a hospital in Las Vegas
Las Vegas metropolitan area
The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...
, Nevada
Nevada
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on Thursday, February 15, 2007 to "relieve pressure on her brain". Tests revealed that the pressure was caused by her skull being fractured, which was caused by an accidental fall.