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Celebrity Travel Site, AStarWasBorn.com, Gets "Insider's Tour" From Alan Thicke, on His Hometown, Ontario Canada

Alan Thicke talks with AStarWasBorn.com, about growing up in Kirkland Lake, Ontario and shares travel tips for visitors to Ontario, along with insight about his role in his new Hallmark Channel Original movie "Notes From Dad".

2013-06-15
LOS ANGELES, CA, June 15, 2013 (Press-News.org) A STAR WAS BORN (www.astarwasborn.com ) has posted an exclusive interview with ALAN THICKE , star of Hallmark Channel Original movie "NOTES FROM DAD" about growing up in ONTARIO, CANADA and his hometown, KIRKLAND LAKE, ONTARIO. Thicke shares insight on his role in "NOTES FROM DAD", along with his travel "must-sees" for visitors to Ontario and his favorite Canadian delicacy.

A STAR WAS BORN features the hottest stars giving personal, inside tours of the cities they know best: the places where they grew up. Each celebrity shares with the website's reporters their favorite hometown memories, their favorite local foods and restaurants, their favorite hangouts, landmarks, places to shop and much more.

Other celebrities who have shared the less touristy, more genuine parts of their neighborhoods with A STAR WAS BORN include such actors as "SCANDAL's" , sizzling star, Kerry Washinton, "HOMELAND's" Emmy-Award winning actor, Damian Lewis, on growing up on one of the most famed streets in the world, Abbey Road in London, and his gorgeous Brazilian-born co-star, Morena Baccarin, who reveals her favorite beach and food in her native city, Rio de Janeiro; Hayden Panettiere, star of ABC-TV's new hit series "NASHVILLE," who chats about the quaint village area she grew up in just outside New York City; "REVENGE's" Emily VanCamp who grew up in lovely seaside town north of Toronto and actress/singer Megan Hilty, who hails from a suburb near Seattle and starred in NBC-TV's "SMASH."

A STAR WAS BORN also features original travel stories about the cities and the surrounding areas of celebrity hometowns. The site has spotlighted domestic and international destinations from New Orleans to London and from Chicago to Tasmania.

"NOTES FROM DAD" is a Hallmark Channel Original movie and premieres on June 15, 9/8 c.


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[Press-News.org] Celebrity Travel Site, AStarWasBorn.com, Gets "Insider's Tour" From Alan Thicke, on His Hometown, Ontario Canada
Alan Thicke talks with AStarWasBorn.com, about growing up in Kirkland Lake, Ontario and shares travel tips for visitors to Ontario, along with insight about his role in his new Hallmark Channel Original movie "Notes From Dad".