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(AP) Reports Samantha Brown Hosts New PBS Travel Series 'Places to Love'
Reports Travel Channel Samantha Brown she gave birth two twins girls and Samantha Brown file for divorce too as well so sad It’s a boy and a girl for Samantha Brown The Travel Channel Welcomes host Samantha Brown With Ellis James, and a daughter, Elizabeth Mae, on Thursday, Jan. 17 in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Ellis weighed in at 6 lbs., 10 oz. and is 19.25 inches long, while Elizabeth weighed in at 5 lbs., 12 oz. and is 19 inches long.
“We are so happy with the birth of our beautiful twins,” Brown, 43, tells PEOPLE exclusively. “I will be going back on the road as soon as we can, so baby passports here we come!”
Brown’s newest special, Trip of a Lifetime 2013, premieres Sunday, Jan. 27 at 8 p.m. on the Travel Channel.
NEW YORK — You may know Samantha Brown from her years as a Travel Channel host for shows like "Great Hotels," ''Green Getaways" and the "Passport" series about Latin America, China and Europe, among others.
She's back with a new series on PBS called "Places to Love," launching Saturday with 13 weekly episodes through March.
"'Places
to Love' is about finding the experiences, the destinations, but, most
importantly, the people who really make us feel like we're part of a
place," Brown said in an interview for the AP Travel podcast "Get Outta
Here!"
Destinations
featured on the show range from Shanghai to places Brown says you might
not think of going "but should," like Huntsville, Alabama, nicknamed
Rocket City for its work with NASA and the space industry.
Brown
talked about the show's philosophy, some individual episodes and the
challenges of succeeding as a woman on television. Here are some
excerpts.
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THE FLOWERS OF TEXAS HILL COUNTRY
"When
you are producing a show totally based on flowers being in bloom, it is
a nail-biter. We were getting reports, updates, we had our
flower-watchers. I was following bloggers and Instagram ... I mean we
had a plan B but luckily they were in bloom and we saw the Texas
bluebonnets in all their glory."
TRIPS ANYONE CAN DO
"'Places
to Love' is all about what you can do. I am not having any experiences
that you cannot have. None of my experiences are VIP, are exclusive, are
created for the camera, which I used to do a lot in my past days. ...
Everything I do, you can do. Just about everybody I meet are people you
can meet."
CHALLENGES FOR WOMEN ON TV
"Even
if the men's ratings are low for a time, they will let that male host
have that show for much longer so they can slowly gain those ratings to
the point where they do have a successful show. Women are not given that
chance. That to me was a huge frustration. ... It's just sort of the
male-driven kind of world that men have adventures and women really
don't. And so of course I don't believe in that but there's a perception
there. ... I wish it would change and the way I changed it was I
decided to produce and fund my own show."
GROWING UP
"There
was nothing like getting up at three o'clock in the morning and our
parents piling us in the Pontiac station wagon with the dog, with our
baloney sandwiches and making the 10-hour trip (to visit relatives in
Pennsylvania). I loved it. Or to Canada. That was our big trip because
we were from New Hampshire so we could go there. But that's what I
brought to my experience when I first started at the Travel Channel:
There is this idea that travel is a privilege and you have to be
privileged not only with money to travel, but time and most importantly
confidence. I think it takes a lot of confidence to get on a plane and
go somewhere else especially to a foreign land. And so I always wanted
to be that person who could connect that experience with the person
sitting on the couch. If I can do it, you can do it."
FAVORITE EPISODE
"I
would say my most powerful memory I have is our first show which we
taped in Houston, Texas. There was something about starting the day:
I've got a cameraman, I've got a camerawoman, I've got a producer, a
director and of course the fixer, and I realize this is all because of
our hard work and we did it. Two years before, people said there's no
way you're going to raise the money to make a travel show and yet here I
was. We were in this wonderful city, Houston, which I totally fell in
love with. It's the most culturally diverse city in the U.S. ... We shot
that before the flood, about five months before (Hurricane) Harvey
came. It will be the first show to air on your PBS stations because we
feel so strongly about it, that this city came back from a historically
bad flood. It's because of the people."
FUTURE BUCKET LIST
"I'd
love to spend more time in Africa. I've only been to Cape Town, South
Africa. My dream is to see the aurora borealis. I'll see it anywhere —
Alaska, Finland, doesn't matter."
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Listen
to an interview with Samantha Brown about her new show on AP Travel's
weekly podcast "Get Outta Here!" available on iTunes
http://apple.co/2s2ruHY
Our travel goddess shares 10 things you probably don't know about her:
1: I always bring a book of poetry with me -- usually Robert Frost or Mary Oliver.
2: I always travel with a jar of peanut butter.
3: I brown bag it even when I'm flying first-class. It's my last chance to eat something homemade.
4:. I get terrible homesickness. Usually when I first wake up in the morning but only for about an hour
5: On my resume I have under special skills "professional Blimp photographer." A blimp crashed on my building in NYC on the 4th of July 1992. I was on the roof sunbathing and snapped one picture of it, which I sent to the Associated Press. Time Magazine and USA Today bought the image so I made about $300. Thereby earning me professional photog status!
6: If I wasn't doing what I am doing, I would own a little breakfast place where I would be on a first-name basis with all my customers. I would wear cute aprons and go around to all my tables with a carafe of coffee at my hip asking if they wanted "some more Joe."
7: When I was a little girl my mom would tell me the story of how I was a bear cub she found in the woods. I would sometimes search our backyard in New Hampshire looking for my bear mom and dad, worried that they were missing me. If I wasn't getting along with my sisters or parents I was certain it was because I was a bear and they were not.
8: My biggest regret is that I never did a sport in high school. I was too scared of failing.
9: I still play my favorite video game from the '80s: Galaga.
10: What I love most about travel is feeling like a fish out of water. I love being the person in the room who looks and sounds like no one else. The challenge of seeing where I fit in and how I can make a connection with people who are completely different than me is absolutely thrilling.
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