Amanda Holden is currently a judge on Britain’s Got Talent. Like her co-judge, Simon Cowell, Holden started her career using game shows as a launch pad to fame. Her first TV appearance was as a contestant of the show, Blind Date, in 1991. She’s now an actress, presenter, and media personality.
Holden established her acting career with shows like Wild at Heart, in which she played the role of Sarah Trevanion, and in Thoroughly Modern Millie, for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award.
Tom Selleck
Actor Tom Selleck is so famous for his thick mustache that we wonder if anyone would even recognize him clean-shaven. The absence of his mustache alone is like a disguise in itself. Back when he was still a college senior, long before he was donning a Hawaiian shirt and a .45 Colt pistol in Magnum, P.I., Selleck was looking for love on the TV show, The Dating Game.
He looked dapper in his suit, spruce, and tidy. The heartthrob talked about his notions on relationships, his ideal girl, and the traits he looked for in a lover. As dapper as he was, sadly, like Jon Hamm, the women nixed Tom Selleck twice!
Kasie Head
If you’ve read this far, it shouldn’t be difficult to guess which game show the beautiful Kasie Head benefited from to jump start her career. Apart from competing in the Miss USA pageant and successfully launching her interior design and event planning business, KLH Designs, Head played roles in Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement and Just My Luck.
Prior to all this though, Kasie Head was a model for the game show, Deal or No Deal, responsible for holding case number 16. She made that case look so sweet that contestants didn’t mind taking a risk in calling her number.
William Shatner
Canadian actor, William Shatner, has become such an indelible part of the Star Trek universe that he has co-authored several novels with stories that have become accepted as canon. His experiences in portraying the role of James T. Kirk, captain of the USS Enterprise, are also documented in his other published journals.
Before Shatner’s cosmic success came to fruition, he appeared as a dashing young guest panelist on the game show, What’s My Line. This was back in 1965, just a year before he embarked on the intergalactic project that would make him a cultural icon.
Funniest Game Show Moments
Lights, camera, action...and pressure! Being a contestant on a gameshow can be as exhilarating as it is nerve-racking. With that, comes some major slip-ups, and more often than not, they can be pretty hilarious. Check out funny examples of game show faux pas. This guy clearly had a special love for those marine friends of his as he couldn't see the obvious connection to the term "wish list", and instead opted for "fish love". It doesn't make much sense seeing as there is not even an 'i'.
Edgar the contestant, however, seemed to take it in good spirits and shrugged it off with a hardy laugh. Well, with choices like it might appear that he is used to making silly mistakes like that.