Tessa Virtue

Personal life

Virtue was born and raised in London, Ontario, Canada. Two years into her partnership with Moir, a nine-year-old Virtue passed up the opportunity to enter the National Ballet School to devote herself to skating. She graduated with a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2023.

In 2004, Virtue began living in Canton, Michigan, U.S., to train under Igor Shpilband and Marina Zueva. After the 2014 Olympics, she moved back to London, Ontario. In 2016, she moved to Montreal, Quebec, where she and Moir were coached by Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon. According to Rielly, they met one another via a mutual friend. The couple married later in 2023, and their wedding was covered by Hello! In August 2024, Virtue gave birth to their first child, a son.

Career

Non-competitive career

In October 2010, Virtue, Moir, and co-writer Steve Milton published a book about their career called Tessa and Scott: Our Journey from Childhood Dream to Gold. Following on from that success, they co-produced the Rock the Rink tour in 2019.

In 2015, Hillberg & Berk announced their collaboration with Tessa Virtue. In October of the same year, they launched Tessa Virtue collection of jewelry, which she helped design.

In 2017, BonLook announced a glasses collaboration with Virtue. The BonLook X Tessa Virtue collection was launched in January 2018.

Throughout Virtue and Moir's competitive skating career they have been sponsored by many Canadian companies; these include Visa, Air Canada, Acura West, Lindt, and General Mills. Virtue has been individually sponsored Virtue and Moir were honoured as the Canadian Olympic athletes of the year by CBC in December 2017. In early May 2018, Virtue and Moir were awarded Partnership of the Year, along with pairs skaters Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford, at the 45th Sports Québec gala. Following 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Tessa Virtue was named one of the most famous female athletes in the world by ESPN. Virtue is the highest placed Canadian female athlete and second highest placed female winter sports athlete. In December 2018, Virtue and Moir were inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in the Sports and Athletics category. On November 27, 2020, Governor General of Canada named Virtue and Moir as Members of the Order of Canada. In 2023 they were awarded the Order of Sport, marking induction into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.