ERIN CEBULA

At home with “souper” powers

WORDS JOE LEARY, PHOTOGRAPHY ALFONSO ARNOLD

As the face of the BC Children’s Hospital Dream Lottery, TV personality Erin Cebula not only emerged unscathed from the COVID-19 lockdown, but also with a newfound passion to cook.

“Being at home forced me to explore lots of new recipes and while my go-to is not super sexy, I am a bit of a soup wizard. In fact it’s my ‘souper’ power,” she says. “I can make just about any soup you can imagine and I have this ability to take pretty much anything and whip up something really quite delicious.”

She adds: “I believe that food’s about love so whatever I do create I’m focused on making it with love. Plus, after a while I burned out of watching television.”

Erin said she also came out of the lockdown with an appreciation for her husband.

“I’ll tell you that I love my husband even more,” she says.

As her lockdown repertoire in the kitchen has expanded, so too has her role with the BC Children’s Hospital Dream Lottery.

“We’re going to be visiting and doing more videos and commercial features from the different prize homes, and I’m going to be all over BC to give people a closer look at what these packages are about.”

Being photographed in scores of luxury properties—how does her personal accommodation compare?

“I think my property is gorgeous,” she says. “We moved into a brand new condo in the West End and it’s the first time ever having a brand new anything. We started from scratch with bare walls and came with basically nothing, having left our previous place to rent furnished. We had a mattress and lived for the first month like starving students as we accumulated.”