Tom Bergeron

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Tom Bergeron (born May 6, 1955 in Haverhill, Massachusetts) is best known to the public for his hosting duties on Hollywood Squares (1998 to 2004) and as host for the ABC reality series Dancing with the Stars (2005 to present). He has also hosted America's Funniest Home Videos since 2001. He shares a Daytime Emmy with Bob Barker.

One of his first jobs on television was as host of the local PBS game show Granite State Challenge. In the early 1990's he had an early-morning radio show called The Tom Bergeron Show on WBZ Radio in Boston. He also hosted People are Talking With Tom Bergeron on WBZ-TV. In 1996, he was the co-host of Fox After Breakfast along with Laurie Hibberd (under the name Breakfast Time, the show originally aired on the fledgling fX network several years earlier). This show ran for one year on Fox; it eventually became The Vicki Lawrence Show after a number of cast changes. At one time Bergeron was signed to a contract with ABC News, as he guest hosted and was in the running to host Good Morning America. When Charles Gibson left the show, Bergeron was considered as a permanent replacement but that job went to Kevin Newman. Bergeron appeared twice on Star Trek: Enterprise as an alien trader named D'Marr and as a Coridan Ambassador. He also appeared in an episode of The Nanny in 1998. In 2005 he began hosting the ABC reality series Dancing with the Stars.

Bergeron is married and has two daughters. He lives in Greenwich,^[1] Connecticut.

In 2005, Bergeron was a co-host on the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon, and in 2006 he was elected national vice president of the association.^[1]

[edit] Notes

According to his appearance on GSN's "I've Got A Secret", he used to perform as a mime, and appears to be very skilled at pretending to climb a ladder.

1. ^ ^{a b} "People & Places" column in Business section, The Advocate of Stamford, July 26, 2006, page A11

[edit] External links

• Tom Bergeron at the Internet Movie Database
• Tom Bergeron article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.

Preceded by John Davidson in the 1986-1989 version	Host of The Hollywood Squares 1998–2004	Succeeded by N/A - program defunct
Preceded by Daisy Fuentes & John Fugelsang	Host of America's Funniest Home Videos 2001–present	Succeeded by Incumbent