Grew up mostly in Seattle, and attended Seattle Pacific University.
Used to work at Boeing, where he produced and narrated sales and marketing videos.
Named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine. [2001]
On the Survivor: All Stars Reunion show, he offered to marry both Rob Mariano and Amber Brkich, claiming he was an ordained minister. Probst got himself ordained in 1999 so that he could preside at his parents 40th anniversary remarriage. He was ordained by the Universal Life Church of Modesto, California. He paid $25.00 for his ordination papers.
Has taken the torch snuffer from every season of Survivor as a personal souvenir.
Jeff Probst Detailed Biography
Jeff Probst (born November 4, 1962) is an American television personality, best known for his role, since the year 2000, as the host of the successful U.S. version of the Survivor reality show franchise. Probst won an Emmy award in 2001 for his work on the series.
In addition to Survivor, Probst previously hosted the FX network's original half-hour show dedicated to answering viewer letters, Backchat. He went on to serve as host of the VH1 series Rock & Roll Jeopardy! (a pop music twist of the original game show Jeopardy!) and was a correspondent for the syndicated program Access Hollywood, during which he travelled a reported 300,000 miles. He has also written the screenplay for and directed an independent film, released in 2001, called Finder's Fee. Jeff also does voice work for the animated television program Fillmore. People Magazine named Probst one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" in 2001.
Probst was born in Wichita, Kansas but grew up primarily in Seattle, Washington. He attended Seattle Pacific University, and formerly worked at Boeing Motion Picture/Television studio as a producer and narrator of marketing videos. Probst was divorced from his spouse of five years, Shelley Wright, in 2001. In his spare time, Jeff is active in the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
As of 2005, Jeff is dating Survivor: Vanuatu contestant, twenty-four year old Julie Berry.
