Bobby Rivers

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Bobby Rivers is the host of Top 5 on the Food Network. Rivers' television career began in 1978 as an entertainment reporter for Milwaukee television station WISN. In 1987, Rivers was hired as a veejay by the American cable television channel VH1, which led to his own show on the network (Watch Bobby Rivers) the following year. On this program, he interviewed the likes of Paul McCartney, Kirk Douglas, Meryl Streep, Mel Gibson, and Norman Mailer. Since then, Rivers has been a reporter for several New York-based news programs, performed onstage, and appeared on the television show The Sopranos. He is known for his perky attitude and ever-present smile.

[edit] Secret Life Of

As host of Secret Life Of on the Food Network, Bobby narrates the secret life of items in various culinary categories. These categories can range from the highly specific (Secret Life Of Cheese Dishes) to the rather abstract (Secret Life Of "Kitschiest" Dining Experiences). For each category, the audience is taken on a tour of a restaurant that exemplifies that choice. While Bobby Rivers does not appear to actually have travelled to these locations with the camera crew, he is constantly narrating from the studio. The camera cuts back to him between segments, in which he usually provides new culinary trivia for the home audience.