JoJo Savard is a former

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television

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who gained popularity during the early 1990s. She began her media career in 1981 in

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, being regularly featured on the ''Tomorrow’s Fortune'' television program. Her popularity blossomed in the early 1990s with a short TV astrology segment called 'Jocelyne', which was aired between television shows on

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in Montreal. With Savard's popularity rising, she shifted her focus in 1994 and began the popular Jojo's Psychic Alliance telemarketing hotline across Canada. Her

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was featured on French and English television. Subsequently, Savard went under contract to the Miami-based telemarketing firm Ormazd Inc., to host an American-based astrology hotline called The Power of Love in the United States. Her

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phone line reached 2,000 calls per day at its peak.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Savard, Jojo People from Quebec City Canadian occultists Psychics Canadian television hosts Canadian women television hosts Living people Year of birth missing (living people)