Everything about Robin Leach totally explained
Robin Douglas Leach (born
August 29,
1941 in
London,
England) is an English celebrity writer famous for hosting his first show,
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous in the
1980s, which focused on profiling well-known celebrities and their lavish homes, cars, and other materialistic accoutrements. His voice is often parodied by other actors with his signature phrase, "champagne wishes and caviar dreams."
Early life
During grammar school at
Harrow County School for Boys, 20 miles from
London, he edited a school magazine,
The Gayton Times, at age 14. At age 15 he became a general news reporter for
The Harrow Observer and started a monthly glossy town magazine at age 17.
Career
Leach moved on to the
Daily Mail as Britain's youngest page one reporter at age 18. In 1963, he immigrated to America and wrote for a number of publications (
New York Daily News,
People,
Ladies Home Journal etc.) before launching
GO Magazine and then was show business editor of
The Star.
Other television work includes reporting for
People Tonight on
CNN and
Entertainment Tonight and helping start
Good Morning Australia as well as the
Food Network. Robin Leach was also a guest at
World Wrestling Entertainment's
WrestleMania IV, where he reads the rules for the championship tournament.
Leach hosted on
VH1 in 2007.
He currently resides in
Las Vegas.
Appearances & Pop Culture References
- He was a guest judge on Part One Of The Season Finale Of Hell's Kitchen that originally aired 2007/08/06
- He was a guest on Space Ghost Coast to Coast on which he turns into a villain, Zoltran, who attacks Space Ghost
- He appeared on the Howard Stern Sirius Radio program on March 27, 2007.
- Leach was a guest in an episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit! in which they criticize the concept of "The Best".
- He did a guest voice-over, as himself, on the Family Guy episode "Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater" for a parody of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.
- Leach was shortly involved with KVTE-LP in an attempt to launch an all-Vegas television network
- He was a contestant on the U.S. version of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! where he was the first eliminated by the public.
- He had a cameo in Boy Meets World playing himself.
- He had a cameo in the Carmen Sandiego episode Diamonds are a Crook's Best Friend.
- He was referenced in the following songs:
- Leach was the MC for the Nascar Sprint Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on March 2, 2008
- Leach or an impersonator was in a 2008-08 commercial for luxury seats at Philadelphia Flyers home games.
Trivia
Ironically,
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous was never shown on British network television, as a result, in Britain itself, few people have ever heard of Leach.
Ironically, Leach spent his career on Lifestyles, exploring the mansions of the rich and famous, yet he owns a mansion in the
Caribbean island of
Antigua.
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