Interesting Facts
- Darren has a daughter named 'Jess', who was born in Ottawa in 1991.
- In September 1990, Stevens, as a radio stunt, admitted that he suffered from a rare affliction - being a Canadian who can't skate. On air he openly 'stalked' fellow Ottawa native & Olympic champ Elizabeth Manley to teach him how to skate. Finally, after about 150 days, in January 1991, Liz put the skates on Darren & taught him how to skate.
- In 1991, Stevens had a donut named after him. 'The Real Darren Stevens Donut' was banana creme filled covered with chocolate & nuts - 'totally bananas & a little nutty!'.
- September 1, 1994 Darren Stevens became the first personality to be heard on air on 106.9 FM The BEAR CKQB-FM broadcasting live from Minglewoods bar in the Byward Market
- Cowboy Who? a bizarre all-ages kids show featured early TV appearances of The Real Darren Stevens as well as Samantha Bee from Comedy Central's The Daily Show. The first season is available now on DVD at Amazon.
- On February 21, 2004 Stevens created "The Monkey" a new format overnight show on CIQB-FM hosted by Choo Choo - a monkey! A parody of the various Jack/Bob radio formats at the time,The Monkey played music from the current playlist as well as novelty songs, parodies & comedy bits.
- During his tenure in Barrie, Stevens often used guest celebrity DJ's on CIQB-FM including Glass Tiger (Nov 6/04) and world figure skating champion Jennifer Robinson who made her radio-hosting debut (July 31 & Aug 7/04). On June 18, 2005 Stevens also hired Keith Hampshire to host a Saturday night 60's-70's oldies show on CHAY-FM.
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