Drew Carey Biography

Drew Carey (Drew Allison Carey) is an American actor, comedian, sports executive, and game show host. He is specifically known for his own sitcom, The Drew Carey Show.

Besides being a minority owner of the Major League Soccer team Seattle Sounders FC, he is interested in a variety of sports and has worked as a photographer at U.S. National Team soccer games.

Drew Carey Age

he was born on May 23, 1958, in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.

Family

He is the youngest of Lewis Carey and Beulah Carey’s three sons. His older brothers are Neil, who was born in 1946 and Roger who was born in 1952. When he was 8 years old, his father died of brain tumor. He attended James Ford High School where he played the cornet and trumpet in the school’s marching band. He graduated in 1975.

He went to Kent State University where he was a part of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity and he got expelled twice from the university for poor performance. He left university after three years and was enlisted into the United States Marine Corps Reserve in 1981 where he served for 6 years.

Drew Carey Wife | Fiance

He is a father figure to Nicole Jaracz’s son, Connor. He proposed to Jaracz in 2007 and the two did not wed as they called off their engagement in 2012. He later announced his engagement to Amie Harwick, a therapist, in January 2018 but they later split.

Drew Carey Military | Marine

He was enlisted into the US Marine Corps after he left university and he served for six years.

Drew Carey Movies And TV Shows

Television

Drew Carey Net Worth

He has so far earned an estimated net worth of $165 million from his career. He was named the 24th highest paid entertainer by Forbes in 1998.

Drew Carey Show | Salary

He hosts The Drew Carey Show. This show premiered on September 13, 1995, on ABC. He initially earned $60, 000 per episode in the first seasons then negotiated to $300, 000. By the show’s final season, he was earning $750, ooo per episode. The program had a total of 233 episodes over its nine-year run and he was one of the four actors to appear in every episode.

Weight Loss

He began a diet and exercise plan, resulting in an extensive weight loss. He claimed that he has cured his Type 2 diabetes as a direct result.

Drew Carey Show Mimi

Mimi Bobeck role, played by Kathy Kinney, a main character of the show,  inflicted no end of torment as his clownlike, cracking the nemesis on The Drew Carey Show.

Drew Carey Show Cast

Recurring Characters

Drew Carey Price Is Right

He was contacted by CBS about replacing Bob Barker, who had announced his retirement. He announced that he would succeed Barker as the host of the program beginning in the fall of 2007. His first episode was taped on August 15, 2007, and his show began airing on October 15, 2007.  On the first week of Season 46, September 18–22, 2017, he celebrated his 10 years as host of the show.

Drew Carey 2019 | 2018 | Now

Ncis

He appeared in an episode as a retired Marine Sergeant John Ross.

Drew Carey Dead

There were allegations that he might be dead after suffering from chest pains while filming The Drew Carey Show in August 2001 and went to the hospital where he underwent coronary angioplasty.

Drew Carey Show Theme Song

Drew Carey Interview

Interview: Drew Carey On The New Season Of ‘The Price Is Right

Adapted From: newyork.cbslocal.com

MW- Good morning Drew, how are you?

DC- Great Matt, how are you?

MW- Just fine! Congratulations on your ten year anniversary as host of The Price Is Right. I want to take you back a decade, how did you get involved with the show in the first place?

DC- I was kind of retired, didn’t want to do any more TV, I was having fun, traveling, relaxing. Michael Davies who was a producer I knew came up with an idea for a game show and he contacted me and wanted to know if I wanted to do it. It was part-time in New York so I would have to fly to New York a couple of times a month, tape a bunch of shows and he convinced me to do it. It wouldn’t be as many hours a week as a sitcom so I could still relax and he said he would work around my schedule.

So I went out to New York to do the pilot, I did the pilot on a Monday and that weekend I was going to go on a driving trip back to LA because I had all this extra time. So I was driving back to LA, I stopped at a restaurant and I had a message on my phone from my agent, and I had been taking acting lessons because I thought maybe I’d do some small parts in movies for fun, and my agent said he got this really interesting call from CBS casting and I thought, oh maybe they want me for a CSI or one of the dramas. So I said oh really and he said yea how’d you like to take over for Bob Barker on The Price Is Right and I was like “WHAT?!” Right away I said no but when I got back to LA my agent said CBS reached out again, so I had a meeting with The Price Is Right people and by the time the meeting was over I really wanted to do the show. We had a dinner meeting and they told me all about the show and how it worked and by the time that meeting was over I was sure I wanted to do it. So I told my agent, they started negotiating a contract and here I was, just that easy.