Catherine Swing

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|name = Catherine Swing

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|occupation = actress, television personality

|title = Miss Canada 1978

|spouse = Fergie Olver (divorced)

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Catherine Swing is a Canadian television personality, actor, producer, director and former Miss Canada.

Swing won the Miss Canada pageant in 1978,{{cite web|url=http://www.misscanadatm.com/missanterieures.html|title=Miss Canada&Miss Teen Canada:MissCanada-Pasttitleholders|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027124643/http://www.misscanadatm.com/missanterieures.html|archivedate=2014-10-27}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h3BkAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22catherine+swing%22&pg=PA58&article_id=1283,4181444 |title=Student crowned Miss Canada |publisher=The Calgary Herald |language=en}} after having won the Miss Toronto crown while she was a student at York University.{{Cite news |date=1977-11-08 |title=Clipped From The Windsor Star |pages=2 |work=The Windsor Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107429960/the-windsor-star/ |access-date=2022-08-12}} Over the next year she made public appearances in different parts of the country.{{Cite book |last=Belford |first=Terrence |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0YIuAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22catherine+swing%22&pg=PA11&article_id=1178,314776 |title=Dress up your party with Canada's prettiest |publisher=The Montreal Gazette |language=en}} She talked with the challenges of being Miss Canada with the press, most notably the lack of control over her own schedule.{{Cite news |date=1978-03-28 |title=Tough being Miss Canada 'Promoters own me' |pages=1 |work=The Montreal Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107428292/tough-being-miss-canada-promoters-own/ |access-date=2022-08-12}} Swing was not able to compete in the 1978 Miss Universe pageant as had what the papers called "marriage plans".{{Cite news |date=1978-05-10 |title=World Chance |pages=25 |work=Times Colonist |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107430190/world-chance/ |access-date=2022-08-12}}

In 1980, she created Just Like Mom, a television game show which ran on CTV until 1985; from the second season onwards she co-hosted the show with her then-husband Fergie Olver.{{cite web|url=http://www.journalpioneer.com/Living/2009-09-23/article-1394527/Just-Like-Mom-host-Catherine-Swing-backs-updated-version-of-80s-game-show/1|title=Just Like Mom host Catherine Swing backs updated version of 80s game show|publisher=|access-date=2014-10-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027124031/http://www.journalpioneer.com/Living/2009-09-23/article-1394527/Just-Like-Mom-host-Catherine-Swing-backs-updated-version-of-80s-game-show/1|archive-date=2014-10-27|url-status=dead}} In 2009 a new version of the show was announced and Swing served as a consultant.{{Cite book |last1=Metro International |url=http://archive.org/details/metro-toronto-2009-09-23 |title=Just like mom gets modern twist |last2=Atlantic Free Daily Newspapers Inc. |date=2009-09-23}}{{Cite news |last=Baillie |first=Andrea |date=23 September 2009 |title=Just Like Mom is back with updated version of '80s game show |page=B.13 |work=The Guelph Mercury; Guelph, Ont. |id={{ProQuest| }}}} After Just Like Mom concluded, Swing continued to work in television as an actor and director.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}