Josh Gates
| Josh Gates | |
|---|---|
 Gates on location in Cambodia, 2013 | |
| Born |
August 10, 1977 Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, United States |
| Alma mater | Tufts University |
| Occupation | Explorer, Television Presenter, Television Producer of Destination Truth and host of show Expedition Unknown |
| Spouse(s) |
Hallie Gnatovich (m. 2014) |
| Children | 1 son |
Josh Gates is an American television presenter, television producer and author. He was the host and co-executive producer of Destination Truth on Syfy, (formerly the Sci Fi Channel), and currently hosts and co-executive produces the Travel Channel series Expedition Unknown. Gates was born in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts and currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
Exploration
In addition to being a certified SCUBA diver,[1] Gates has also summited Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa[1] and climbed Mt. Aconcagua in the Argentine Andes.[2] From 1996 to 1998, he 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. In addition to his field work, he has traveled to more than 100 countries and was inducted into The Explorers Club, an organization dedicated to the advancement of exploration since 1904.[3]
Expedition Unknown
Gates is currently the host and executive producer of Expedition Unknown on Travel Channel, which premiered on January 2015 and is in its third season as of June 2017.[4] The program follows him around the world as he explores the world's most enduring legends and mysteries.[5]
Destination Truth
From 2007 to 2012, Gates was the host of Destination Truth on the Syfy Channel. The series premiered its second season with its best-ever telecast, delivering 1.7 million total viewers and making the show the highest-rated second season performance by a reality series on Syfy. The series ended after its fifth season.[3]
In 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 found during a Destination Truth episode. The cast is on display at Expedition Everest, a Himalayan-themed, high-speed, coaster-like attraction where guests come face-to-face with a Yeti.[6]
As of May 2017, episodes of Destination Truth were being aired on Travel Channel.[7]
Other television
In 2002, Josh Gates was a contestant on Beg, Borrow & Deal, a reality/game show on ESPN.[8]
In 2006, he starred in Truly Famous, a series sponsored by Budweiser.[9]
In 2007, Gates hosted the Ghost Hunters Live Halloween special, and in 2008 he made a guest-appearance on the mid-first-season finale episode of Ghost Hunters International.[10]
He returned as the host of Ghost Hunters Live in 2008, where he helmed the live seven-hour broadcast from Ft. Delaware, a civil war POW camp in Delaware Bay. Both seasons garnered high ratings and 2008's show made Syfy the #1 cable network in prime-time on Halloween night.[3]
Gates hosted two round-table interviews with Ghost Hunters in 2007 and 2008, and appeared in an episode of Ghost Hunters in which the cast investigated the Essex County Penitentiary.[3]
Gates also hosted Ghost Hunters Live 100th episode special from the stage of Saturday Night Live in 30 Rockefeller Center, during which the TAPS team investigated Alcatraz Prison.
Gates was the creator, executive producer, and narrator of Stranded, a paranormal reality television series that premiered on the SyFy channel in February 2013. Gates produced the show in cooperation with Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions, best known for the Paranormal Activity film franchise.
Since relocating to Los Angeles, Gates has appeared in a number of television advertisements. He appeared 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.[11]
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 exceptional audio presentations that excel in narrative voice and style, vocal characterizations, appropriateness for the audio format and enhancement of the text.
Writing
Gates' first book, Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter, was published by Simon and Schuster / Gallery Books in 2011, and recounts his encounters with various dangerous creatures.
Personal life
Gates married Destination Truth co-star Hallie Gnatovich on September 13, 2014.[12][13] In the 2015 episode of Expedition Unknown about Christopher Columbus, he received an emergency call (included in the show) advising him that he was going to become a dad.
References
- 1 2 "Josh Gates goes in search of the banshee". Retrieved 9 June 2016.
- ↑ "Meet Josh Gates, host of Expedition Unknown". Travel Channel. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
- 1 2 3 4 Official website
- ↑ "Travel Channel Launches Series 'Expedition Unknown' - Multichannel". Retrieved 9 June 2016.
- ↑ "Expedition Unknown season 3 release date — June 01, 2016". when-will.net. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
- ↑ "http://www.laughingplace.com/Latest.asp?I1=ID&I2=2977". Retrieved 9 June 2016. External link in
|title=(help) - ↑ http://www.travelchannel.com/roam-blog/on-travel-channel/josh-gates-destination-truth-is-coming-to-travel-channel
- ↑ "Beg, Borrow, & Deal". www.espn.com. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
- ↑ "http://www.bud.tv/truly_famous.html". Retrieved 9 June 2016. External link in
|title=(help) - ↑ Futon Critic News on Ghost Hunters Live
- ↑ Official website bio
- ↑ Albrecht, John (2014-09-13). "Paranormal Adventurer Joshua Gates Marries 'Destination Truth' Co-Star". paranormal.Kinja.com. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
- ↑ Joshua Gates official Facebook page. September 14, 2014 entry. accessed September 16, 2014