Joshua Gates

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Joshua Gates
Born	August 10, 1977 (1977-08-10) (age 30) Gloucester, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Explorer, Host, Destination Truth

Joshua Gates is an American adventurer, photographer, and television personality. He is currently the host of Destination Truth on the SciFi Channel, a weekly one-hour show filmed in remote locations around the world devoted to exploration of some of the world's most enduring mysteries and unexplained phenomenon.

1 Personal
2 Professional
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Personal

Gates was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts and currently resides in Los Angeles, California. He has degrees in archaeology and drama from Tufts University. In addition to being a qualified SCUBA diver , he has also climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa and Mt. Aconcagua in the Argentine Andes.^[1]

[edit] Professional

From 1996-1998 Gates participated in The University of Maryland's archaeological excavations of Caesarea Maritima in Israel. Part of a small SCUBA team, Gates worked with researchers to excavate and better understand the ancient city's submerged harbor complex.

Since relocating to Los Angeles, Gates has appeared in a number of television advertisements. He appears in a national commercial for BMW as part of a campaign launched by Publicis New York and BMW USA. Gates has also appeared in commercials for EA Sports video games and Stanley Tools.

In 2002, Josh was a contestant on "Beg, Borrow & Deal", a reality/game show on ESPN^[2]

In 2006 he starred in a series sponsored by Budweiser entitled Truly Famous.^[3]

Gates also works as a voice-over artist and can be heard as the narrator of Time Warner's audio-book of 'A Brother's Journey', a memoir by Richard B. Pelzer. Gates' narration was awarded the Earphones Award by Audiofile Magazine which celebrates truly exceptional audio presentations that excel in narrative voice and style, vocal characterizations, appropriateness for the audio format, and enhancement of the text.

In 2007, Gates hosted Ghost Hunters live Halloween special, and in 2008 he made a guest-appearance on the season finale of Ghost Hunters International.^[4]

Starting in 2007, Gates has been the host of Destination Truth on the SciFi Channel. The series is now entering its third season. Destination Truth premiered its second season with its best-ever telecast, delivering 1.7 million total viewers. Gates has appeared on numerous television programs to promote Destination Truth, including The Today Show.

On the season premiere of season 2, Gates and his team uncovered a series of footprints high in the Himalayas of Nepal while in search of evidence of the Yeti. The prints were cast and analyzed by Dr. Jeff Meldrum, a leading evolutionary morphologist. Preliminary data suggests that the footprints are anatomically legitimate and do not belong to a known primate.

On April 21, 2008, Josh Gates traveled to Walt Disney World in Florida to meet with Joe Rohde, Executive Designer of Walt Disney Imagineering. Gates presented Rohde with a cast of the "Yeti" footprint. The cast will soon be placed on display at Expedition Everest, a Himalayan-themed, high-speed, coaster-like attraction where guests come face-to-face with a yeti.^[5]