Mike Rowe (television host)
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Rowe in April 2010.
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Michael Gregory Rowe March 18, 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
| Residence | San Francisco, California |
| Alma mater | Towson University |
| Occupation | Television host, narrator |
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| Website | www |
Michael Gregory Rowe (born March 18, 1962) is an American actor primarily known as a television host and narrator. Known for his work on the Discovery Channel series Dirty Jobs and the CNN series Somebody's Gotta Do It. Rowe has narrated programs on the Discovery Channel, The Science Channel and National Geographic Channel such as Deadliest Catch, How the Universe Works, and Shark Week. He has appeared on commercials for firms such as the Ford Motor Company. He's served as a social activist on the causes of economic growth and job expansion as well. Past efforts include being an opera singer and a salesman.
Rowe has hosted On-Air TV for American Airlines, No Relation for FX, and New York Expeditions for PBS.
Starting in the mid-1980s, Rowe hosted Your New Home for WJZ-TV in Baltimore for 15 years.
In early 1990s, Rowe hosted the CD-ROM music trivia game Radio Active (as "Bobby Arpeggio") for defunct Sanctuary Woods. During the same period, was an on-air host for the home-shopping TV network QVC. In a 2006 interview, Rowe related how he got the job at QVC: "I was in the opera at the time. I walked across the street with a buddy of mine during a performance. We're dressed as Vikings and we have a drink. The TV is turned to QVC .... My buddy bets me $100 I can't get a call back. So I crashed the audition and got a job on the spot. I basically turned the whole thing into my own stupid David Letterman show. I made fun of the callers and made fun of the products." Rowe has claimed that QVC fired him three times. When told in a 2008 episode of Dirty Jobs that the gourds he was working on would be sold via QVC, he said he was familiar with the corporation and proceeded to ad-lib a sales pitch for them.
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