Christina Gregg

Born in London in 1939, Christina enjoyed extraordinary success as one of London's top models in the swinging sixties. During the era of David Bailey, Norman Parkinson, and Lord Snowden she graced the covers of numerous magazines, starred in many cinematic films and television series. Well-known through her acting and modeling work, she still enjoys fame with her many fans in the UK. Her book, "Beauty My Way" and exercise recording "Music 'n Motion." Christina understood the correlation between health and beautiful skin far before the current industry trends and in the 1980s founded Vitamin E, a company dedicated to promote health and beauty for the skin. In the eighties she married and moved to Canada where she turned her endless energy to focus on philanthropy and charitable works. Always the champion of children, healthful living, and the arts she went on to found The Minstrel Foundation which funds inner city youth music programs and with her husband, Lyle initiated the Shakespeare Globe Centre of Canada. Through their fundraising efforts, the Blairs assisted noted director Sam Wanamaker in his initiative to build the Globe Theatre which now graces the banks of the Thames in London. With acclaimed actor Christopher Plummer, the Blairs created a scholarship for Canadian actors and directors to learn and work on the stage of the Globe Theatre in London. Never content to sit idly, Christina joined with Wimbledon and US Open Champion Stan Smith to initiate a fundraising Gala for the Boys & Girls Club of Hilton Head, bringing noted performers to the island to raise several million dollars over the last 20 years. She enjoys spending time with her three children and her five grandchildren. She credits her boundless energy to a lifelong devotion to healthful living and fitness. "Without good health, we have nothing. Life is for living to the fullest."