Tom Bergeron is a well-known American presenter, actor and TV producer who has an estimated net worth as high as $12 million. He is known as the famous celebrity guest on the TV show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” in the United States, and has also made many notable appearances as a host in reality shows, such as “Dancing with the Stars” and the famous “Hollywood Squares”. Nowadays T. Bergeron is considered to be one of the richest hosts in game shows as they one of the main sources of building up his net worth.
Tom Bergeron Net Worth $12 Million
Thomas Bergeron was born on May 6, 1955, in Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States. His first step to his chosen career was in 1980, when he became a popular DJ and also was involved in some minor TV and radio projects. However, nowadays Bergeron is known to everyone as a popular game-show host, and the first time he had an opportunity to act in this job was during the “Granite State Challenge” which aired in 1983. After this successful beginning, he worked as the host in a lottery show, and then in 1992 was a commentator on the famous WBZ-TV. Later he became one of the two hosts on “Breakfast Time”. In 1998 the really successful part of Bergeron’s career started, which increased his net worthconsiderably, as he was announced as the new host of the American panel game show entitled “The Hollywood Squares”. For his great work on the show in 2000 he received an Emmy Award as the Outstanding Game Show Host. Tom’s net worth was raised once again as he became the host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” – this extra popular show is being aired until today and that’s why the name of Tom Bergeron has become a household word.
It needs to be said that maybe only one show could increase the amount of net worth owned by Tom Bergeron – it is “Dancing With the Stars” which he has hosted since 2005 and won anEmmy Award in 2012 as the best reality host.
So now you know how rich is Tom Bergeron and what a huge amount of money he has thanks to his great charisma, sense of humor and talent.
T. Bergerons’ net worth also let him to make many political donations. He was donating twice to Wesley Clark for President in year 2003, later, 3 years after that, he has given some money to National Leadership PAC and also for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte. In year 2008 a big sum of Bergeron’s net worth was donated to B. Obama for America, but moreover, until today he has also made donations for ActBlue and for Obama Victory Fund. In total during his career Tom Bergeron has donated almost 20,000 dollars.
Talking about a personal life of T. Bergeron, he was married in year 1982 and hasn’t divorced yet, which is actually rare between show business stars. Nowadays together with wife Lois Bergeron lives in Hartford, Connecticut.
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program, Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Reality Show Host, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program, Critics' Cho...
Nominations
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program
Movies
Rock Slyde, Rock Slyde
TV Shows
The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon, Hollywood Squares, Dancing with the Stars, America's Funniest Home Videos, Good Morning America, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Fox After Breakfast, Breakfast Time (US), The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon, Hollywood Squares, Dancing with the Stars, Americ...
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His calm personality
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People see me on TV and I'm this calm, level headed guy. Honestly, that's the furthest thing from who I am. For a long time I struggled with anger and stress. It was killing me, figuratively and literally. I needed to do something before losing my job, my family and my life. I started meditating and getting into yoga. I'm not into religion, but I think the feeling I get with meditation and yoga is similar to what a religious person experiences in prayer or at church. A peaceful, unexplainable zen.
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[on the definition of ratings of reality television]: I'm not saying the genre's not strong, but there'll be a point where our numbers aren't what they used to be and we settle into a different plateau, and then it'll finally, ultimately, go away. As a genre, hey, we could've been having this conversation 30 years ago, talking about the invincibility of Westerns. Everything changes.
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[on the departure of Samantha Harris, who was his co-hostess]: I'm going to miss Samantha. We had a nice rapport off-camera and on, I could see that her workload was picking up on The Insider (2004) and then she started doing Entertainment Tonight (1981) Weekend. As somebody who's been known to juggle a few jobs myself, I know that that can pull you in eight different directions.
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[on both the new and classic clips of America's Funniest Home Videos (1989)]: The cutting-room floor has a lot of extras that could never air at that hour on commercial television. I told the producers and writers, 'Plot out what clips you want to run, but we're not going to have a script. Bob and I will just riff.' It was two friends hanging out and seeing where it went.
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[Of his earlier job]: I was doing my typical ad-libbing, and his mother leaned over and told him, 'You should hire him.' She still thinks I owe her 10 percent of everything I make!
[When he responded if he was interested in hosting a late night talk show]: No, it's a war zone out there. At 54, I'm outside of the demographic. If I do anything else, I'd like to get back into radio or acting.
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[on his comparison to Johnny Carson]: Johnny is the one. He's the gold standard for anyone who loves live TV and reactive comedy. Johnny never made his guests look bad. He'd save them, but he'd do it deftly and with humor.
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They all know I love them. That's why I can go off on them and we'll go out for a drink after the show.
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[When asked whom he favors on Dancing with the Stars (2005)]: I like every single one of them equally. Of course it's not true, but that's the Hollywood answer.
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[Of Tom DeLay]: My God! I mean, come on. From what I understand - having not met him yet, we go in different political circles - he and his wife are fans of the show.
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He is of French-Canadian (father) and Irish (mother) descent.
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Inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2007 (inaugural class).
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After years of struggling with anger management, he got into meditation and yoga to keep calm and composed.
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