Jeff Probst

About

Jeff Probst (; born 1961) is an American television presenter, producer, actor and young adult fiction writer. He is best known as the Emmy Award–winning host of the American version of the reality television show Survivor since 2000. He was also the host of The Jeff Probst Show, a syndicated daytime talk show produced by CBS Television Distribution from September 2012 to May 2013.

Probst was born at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas, the oldest of three sons to Jerry and Barbara Probst. His family moved to Bellevue, Washington, when Probst was 15 years old. After graduating from Newport High School in 1979, Probst attended Seattle Pacific University, but left before graduating to pursue a career in television. Soon after leaving college, he began working at Boeing Motion Picture/Television studio as a producer and later narrator of marketing and training videos.

In addition to Survivor, Probst once hosted FX’s original half-hour show dedicated to answering viewer letters, Backchat, along with Sound FX, a music series featuring Orlando Jones (1996). Probst also hosted the VH1 series Rock & Roll Jeopardy! from 1998 to 2001 and was a correspondent…