Remember these guys?  It’s Hal and Joanne from BodyBreak!

They were a regular staple in tv commercial breaks from the late 80’s into the 90’s.

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What you may not know about, are the racist incident and attitudes, that eventually let to their triumphant creation of BodyBreak.
Here, Hal Johnson shares the story of how –  having been hired and then turned down for a tv sports job because the station already had a Black reporter and didn’t want to have two – and later how he and Joanne McLeod were advised that the public wasn’t ready for a black and white couple on tv – they created their own tv project.  A very popular one, at that.

 

Filed under: BodyBreak, Hal Johnson, Joanne McCleod