In Conversation With Rick Campanelli

Rick Campanelli, media personality and former MuchMusic VJ, discusses his memoir Tempted in conversation.

The book chronicles Campanelli's rise from a Hamilton teenager who won a nationwide contest to become a VJ on the iconic Canadian music station, to a national on-air personality known as "Rick the Temp." His warm, affable presence won over millions of viewers across the country.

Behind the public success, Campanelli writes, lay a hidden struggle. Tempted reveals, for the first time, the personal battles and "deep dark secrets" that nearly derailed his life — a cautionary account of what happens when control is lost.

The memoir balances accomplishments and a life lived fully with honest acknowledgment of mistakes and flaws, told by someone who has been largely open in the public eye for over thirty years.