Roger Lodge
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Roger Allen Lodge, born Roger Chavez {Fact|date=February 2007}} in Fontana, California and raised in Cerritos, California) is an American game show host, sports radio host, and actor.
Since 1999, Lodge has been the host of the syndicated dating show Blind Date.
Prior to hosting Blind Date, Lodge was a guest host on the E! Entertainment show Talk Soup. He also hosted his own half-hour weekly show for the Sci-Fi Channel entitled Sci-Fi Vortex.
In addition to his hosting duties, Lodge is also an actor. His credits include appearances on the ABC sitcom Full House, CBS's Yes, Dear, and UPN's The Parkers. Lodge has been the host of The Price is Right Live live shows in Las Vegas, Nevada and Atlantic City, New Jersey, and he also appeared in the Robert De Niro film The Fan.
Lodge is an admitted sports trivia buff. From 2003-05, Lodge hosted a local sports talk radio show on KMPC 1540 AM, "The Ticket", based in Santa Monica, California. At 1540 KMPC, Lodge cohosted with Mark Willard. Lodge is also a frequent guest on the ESPN show, Jim Rome Is Burning. Lodge also occasionally guest-hosts The Jim Rome Show on radio. In 2004, he hosted the ESPN game show ESPN Trivial Pursuit. In late-2005, Lodge joined station KLAC (aka AM 570 Sports) as a fill-in host.
Roger Lodge is the play-by-play announcer for the Gender Bowl.
In 2004, Lodge's wife, Pamela Paulshock gave birth to a baby boy. In August of 2006, Lodge's wife gave birth to a baby girl. Lodge has another son, Brandon from a previous marraige.
