Archive piece from 2015.
At precisely the same time I became a game-show host on one of the largest cable networks in the country my 45-year-old melonhead suddenly thrust into 94 million homes I started to look and feel my middle age. Was it psychological head-casery? Probably. That s a helluva lot of homes.
Still, the timing sucked.
As host of
Friday Night Game Night a ridiculously fun gig at the national shopping channel, HSN I was discovering new blemishes, new eye bags, new bloat every morning. Do you know what 11 lines are? Yeah, well, I do. And I swear those zig-zagging wrinkles weren t between my youthful peepers the day before I started working in television. Did Alex Trebek and Gene Rayburn and Bob Barker go through this? Someone get me Sajak on the phone!