UK Import Hosts in America/International American Hosts

[SamJ93]

If we're going to count reality shows, Germany-born Heidi Klum hosted Project Runway in the US. If you consider her basically an American by now, she also hosted the German version of Next Top Model.

[nowhammies10]

Couple more: Ross Shafer hosted Love Me, Love Me Not up here in Canada for Canadian consumption.  Art James also came up north of the 49th to host Super Pay Cards!.

[Stackertosh]

Patrick Kielty hosting the American Deal or No Deal pilot for ABC.

Cat Deeley -So You Think You Can Dance on Fox

Stacey Hayes- Co host of Lingo on GSN.

I don't know if this counts

Don Francisco hosting Sabado Gigante

[PYLdude]

Patrick Kielty hosting the American Deal or No Deal pilot for ABC.

Cat Deeley -So You Think You Can Dance on Fox

Stacey Hayes- Co host of Lingo on GSN.

I don't know if this counts

Don Francisco hosting Sabado Gigante

Not a single one of those is topic related and at least one of them is the inverse.

[Bob Zager]

Donny Osmond hosted versions of Pyramid in both the U.S. and UK.

JD

Osmond also hosted the UK version of Identity (hosted by Penn Gillete in U.S.)

Anyone remember The Rich List,  which Fox aired only one episode of, hosted by Eamonn Holmes?

[SuperMatch93]

Anyone remember The Rich List,  which Fox aired only one episode of, hosted by Eamonn Holmes?

I do indeed, I even watched that one episode when Fox aired it.

Were the rest ever burned off on GSN, or did they just air their original version?

[jjman920]

I hadn't included reality shows because I knew that door would open, but yeah, there's surprisingly a lot of hosts of reality competitions that have become so synonymous with the brand, that they've hosted more than one international version.

If you open up the door to judges, then that opens the flood gates for the various judges that have crossed the pond for American Idol, DWTS, AGT, and X-Factor.

[Kevin Prather]

If you open up the door to judges, then that opens the flood gates for the various judges that have crossed the pond for American Idol, DWTS, AGT, and X-Factor.

That possibly adds something particularly interesting to this thread. The X Factor is the only show I can think of where the US both imported and exported somebody. Simon Cowell came over to our version, and we sent Nicole Scherzinger back their way.

[CeleTheRef]

I wonder if there are any hosts who did a show in a country that speaks a language other than their native tongue? The only sorta-example I can think of is Mexican TPiR host Marco Antonio Regil, who hosted the Live stage show in the US for a while and apparently even audtioned to replace Barker.

If you considered "That's Amore" a game show, there was Luca.

That's Amore was considered a talk show in Italy, altough the studio audience voted a winner.  Luca Barbareschi's only real gameshow to his name was Greed in 2000.

In Italy, NY-born Mike Bongiorno was considered the archetypical gameshow host.  Also Jocelyn Hattab, whose first language is French, hosted and directed several gameshows in Italy and currently he directs Chain Reaction.

[Neumms]

Another one that popped into my mind just now: Vernon Kay coming here to host Million Dollar Mind Game.

Was there a UK version that he hosted? Presuming brainteasers are universal, that'd be fun to watch. I loved that show.