Every Halloween for the past 10 years, Global Edmonton weather specialist Mike Sobel and traffic reporter Daintre Christensen surprise viewers – and staff – with unique costumes.
Christensen says they start brainstorming ideas around the first week of October, and come up with two or three options before making the final selection.
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They follow two rules: Nothing too scary or elaborate. Since they also start work very early in the morning, they shy away from characters that require a lot of makeup, and from masks that are difficult to speak in.
But for their 10th year, they bent both of those rules: Mike dressed up as masked-mass murderer Michael Myers from the Halloween films, and Daintre Christensen was the bride of Frankenstein. Christensen said her transformation took an hour and several layers of white makeup.
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Christensen says her favourite costumes were 2013’s Sonny and Cher. “It was a fairly simple costume and we had a laugh recreating some of their shtick. I had to stand on a platform to look much taller than Mike!”
Sobel’s favourite was 2011’s Invisible Man — so much so, he wore it again in 2017.
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His craziest costume memory goes back to before Christensen joined the crew, when the morning news was on from 6 to 8 a.m. “I would wear a different costume for each half hour. That gave me very little time to change in between segments so it was run, run, run.”
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So, which of Sobel’s and Christensen’s wacky Halloween outfits was your favourite? Scroll to the bottom to vote in our poll.
2018: Michael Myers & bride of Frankenstein
2017: The Invisible Man & Werewolf of Wall Street
2016: Beetlejuice and Lydia
2015: Back to the Future: “Doc” Brown & Marty McFly
2014: Popeye & Olive Oyl
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2013: Sonny & Cher
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2012: Dog the Bounty Hunter & his busty wife Beth
2011: The Invisible man & Sue Sylvester from Glee
2010: Gene Simmons (lead singer of the band KISS) and pop singer Justin Bieber
2009: Superheroes
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2008: Dracula & Cleopatra
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