Anne-Marie Losique

Anne-Marie Losique (also known by the stage name AML) is a Canadian television producer, television host and singer. Together with Marc Trudeau she co-founded a production company, Image Diffusion International. She launched the Quebec adult entertainment television channel Vanessa TV, which broadcast from 2010 to 2014, after which it became Vivid TV Canada. Later ventures include Hustler TV Canada and Dorcel TV Canada, distributed by her company Vanessa Media.

Early life and education Losique is the daughter of Mimi and Serge Losique, and is the youngest of three siblings. Her father Serge is founder of the Montreal World Film Festival. She has described herself as half Québécois and half Croatian. After studying at the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, a private school in Montreal, Quebec, she studied theatre at the Paris-Sorbonne University in France. During this time, in 2001, she gained an interest in adult film production while recording for the programme at the Hot d'Or adult film festival in Cannes, France. It inspired her next venture, Sex Shop, which she hosted from 2001 to 2005, and during that time conducted interviews with celebrities such as Robin Williams and Penélope Cruz. According to Maclean's magazine, Sex Shop attracted almost half a million viewers (about six per cent of Quebec’s population) every Saturday night to watch a "mélange of interviews with men and women in the adult entertainment industry and the sex trade, faux-risqué documentaries on sex toys and swinger couples and scenes from soft-focus smut movies."

With her then-boyfriend Marc Trudeau, Losique co-founded the production company, Image Diffusion International (IDI) in 1995. A mockumentary starring Losique, Bimbo, followed in 2006. Other IDI productions include the talk show 3950 and Pole Position Québec, a 2010 reality show which searched for the best stripper in Quebec.

2010–present IDI produced a 2010 documentary series, Le bum, les belles et la brute, on the lifestyle of Éric Grenier, a Quebecer who was described by La Presse as the province's Hugh Hefner. When asked by La Presse about Grenier's support for the Hells Angels biker gang and his connections to its members, Losique denied having knowledge about his background or connections before producing the series.

Losique appeared on the talk show Tout le monde en parle to promote her 2010 book, Confessions Sauvages, which contains photographs of her with others in the countryside. Accused of "reducing women to sexual objects to make money" in a letter to La Presse written by feminist , Losique criticized the remarks on an primetime live programme briefly after, explaining: "How many girls don't have access to education? Women's rights are still precarious in the world, so an attack like this makes me mad. We are lucky to express ourselves anyway we want." In 2017, partnerships with the companies Hustler TV and Marc Dorcel produced the channels Hustler TV Canada and Dorcel TV Canada, respectively, distributed by her company Vanessa Media.

In 2017, the high-profile sexual misconduct scandal centred on film producer Harvey Weinstein triggered similar allegations of sexual misconduct against famous personalities, including Ben Affleck for his conduct in his 2004 interview with Losique. Losique defended Affleck, saying that he had acted that way only for the interview, and she accused American media of using the interview to fuel the scandal. Losique said she had previously rejected Weinstein's advances at the Toronto International Film Festival, during which he allegedly asked her to go to his room.

She headlined the Zoofest&OFF-JFL event at Zoofest 2018 for her comedy show Les dessous d’Anne-Marie.

Personal life Losique maintains a private personal life. La Presse journalist Nathalie Petrowski described Losique as a "monument to impenetrability". She lived with her boyfriend Marc Trudeau for about 15 years, during which they founded Image Diffusion International together in 1995. They separated in 2009, but continued working together.