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LEANNE AND Doug McLeod are looking forward to the holiday in
Dublin, Ireland, that they won with the help of their daughters 12-year-
old Michelle, left, and Kymberley, 10. The family recently appeared on
the BCTV game show 2nd Honeymoon. .

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WHAT WOULD your father do if he were late for work
and discovered that he was out of clean underwear? Would
he: 1) wash a pair or 2) wear a dirty pair?

Such is the type of question that was asked of North
Vancouver’s McLeod family when mom, dad and two
daughters appeared on the BCTV-taped and -aired game

show 2nd Honeymoon.

By matching answers with their
parents, daughters Michelle, 12,
and Kymberley, 10, won their
parents a trip to Dublin, Ireland,
for — as the show puts it — a se-
cond honeymoon.

“You have to answer honestly,
(because) it’s amazing how much
your children know about you,”’
says mom Leanne McLeod, 45, a
North Vancouver day-care super-
visor. “What the children do is
drag out old stories, which can be

amusing and give insight into what .

kind of family you are.”’

A creation of game show
veterans Wink Martindale and
Jerry Gilden, 2nd Honeymoon is
carried on television stations from
Vancouver to Toronto and on the
CBN Cable Network in the United
States, with family secrets being
blurted out across the airwaves
from coast to coast.

For Michelle, the toughest ques-
tion was when she had to figure
out how many times her dad
(Doug, 43) had kissed her mom
since they came to the station’s
Burnaby studio.

“We hadn't really been paying
attention because we were looking
around,”’ she remembers with a
“T think it was just luck
that I said four.’’ ;

During a camping trip last
summer, the parents secretly
warmed up their daughters’ game
show skills prior to 2nd Honey-
moon taping. Michelle and

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Kymberley figured out that some-
thing was afoot.

“They kept saying ‘Let’s play
family games,’’’ says Michelle.
“They didn’t really tell us (about
the show) until the end of the
summer. ;

Asking the questions is Van-
couver television personality
Wayne Cox.

Questions regarding dad’s
underwear troubles and other
‘what ifs’ are designed to bring out
humorous answers and bare the
family soul in the name of fun and
second honeymoons.

Local contestant coordinator
Andrew Van Slee describes 2nd

Honeymoon as a show “where
kids can do something nice for
their parents.’

But, as he points out, while the
kids do not actually win anything,
they are not left out of the deal —
they get ‘‘time away from their
parents.’’

“Peaple love it and have been
writing letters,’’ Van Slee, a West
Vancouver resident, says of the
show.

When the McLeods go to
Dublin, likely this summer,
Michelle and Kymberley will be at
a horse camp in the interior,
probably remembering that being
able to predict their parents’
behavior made the trip possible.

And just what would your dad
do about the aforementioned
underwear difficulty. Would he 3)
not wear any at all or 4) wear a
pair of your mother’s? On the
show, at least, a correct answer
could wina second honeymoon.

Such a question could be asked
Monday at the season’s"final tap:
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member of the studio audience,
call 421-1600.

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