Phil Keoghan
Phil Keoghan
Philip John "Phil" Keoghan MNZMis a New Zealander television personality, best known for hosting the U.S. version of The Amazing Race on CBS, since its 2001 debut. He is also the creator and host of No Opportunity Wasted, which has been produced in the United States, New Zealand, and Canada. He has won ten Emmy Awards for his work...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth31 May 1967
CityLincoln, New Zealand
cope daily east great immersed life living local location love mainstream middle people places someplace suddenly task teams
For me, personally, I love to see the teams going to places we never get to see in mainstream media. . . . It's always a big eye-opener for these teams to go to someplace that is just very different from their local community. There's one location that we get to in the Middle East where the teams are immersed in a daily task that a lot of the local people have to go through. And it's great to see teams that are used to going down to the 7-Eleven suddenly having to cope with living life in a completely different way.
both eliminated race sorry
I'm sorry to tell you, you've both been eliminated from the race.
clues reading
Not reading clues all the way through has got to be the worst.
interesting people dynamics
I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.
college people vision
I'm not saying that you shouldn't go to college or you shouldn't finish your degree, but sometimes people have a very clear vision about what they want to do, and they just want to get on with it.
people design trying
I try to encourage people to identify the things in life that they really want to do, so that over a period of time they can design or steer their life towards those things.
writing thinking goal
I once had a young musician come to me and say that he wanted to be a professional musician. I asked him to write his list. When he came back to me, the three things in his life he most wanted were: to be paid for his music; to travel around the world; to meet new people. We came to the decision, after thinking really creatively, that if he got a job on a cruise ship, he would fulfill those goals.
driven
I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories.
thinking people trying
I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire.
special storyteller
A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.
I love to be challenged because I'm wrong a lot of the times.
After more than twenty-five years in television, there are days when I feel like I'm just beginning, because I'm learning new things. I want to be better all the time.
drinking sometimes finding-myself
I love finding myself in the most bizarre situations, drinking cobra's blood - really diverse stories. And yet, I will still turn up on location sometimes and be surprised by what I'm encountering or by how to do something.
giving-up giving people
I love the underdog stories. I love people who refuse to give up.