Most unusual post-GS career switch

[SamJ93]

I thought about this while randomly looking for info on what happened to Moira Quirk, the referee/scorekeeper on Nickelodeon GUTS. She went on to be a fairly prolific voice actress and award-winning audiobook narrator.

That's still showbiz-related, though, so not really too big of a switch. But are there other examples like, say, Geoff Edwards (who became a prolific travel writer/blogger after game shows dried up) of personalities who went into something nearly completely unrelated?

[Mr. Matté]

Dylan Lane after his first stint on GSN Chain Reaction went on to become a wind turbine engineer, before going back into the same show many years later.

[johnnya2k3]

After many years of hosting the California Lottery’s Big Spin, Maiquel Alejo moved lock, stock, and barrel to Miami where she’s now a luxury realtor:

https://www.onesothebysrealty.com/agents/87292-maiquel-alejo

[SuperMatch93]

Peter Tomarken went into realty as well after his game show career ended.

[MikeK]

How about this for a diverse life?  David Sparks started as a professor, then went to TV, and is now the President of his own health institute, all per LinkedIn.

[Casey]

I think Blake Pickett is a photographer now, but I'd suggest her career after Fandango and Top Card has been....  interesting.

[BrandonFG]

Dunno if this counts because it was still technically game show-related, but Art James did corporate conferences later in life.

[RMF]

Not sure it's most unusual per se, but that of Jeff MacGregor into journalism seems to be most thorough, to the point where I believe that the attached video is the most easily-accessible evidence that it is the same man:

[colonial]

Ty Treadway (Merv Griffin's Crosswords) is also a real estate agent -- owns an agency with his wife in Dallas ...

http://www.treadwayrealty.com/?aios_agent=ty-treadway


Skip Lackey (second host of Nick Arcade) is now a life coach, personal growth coach ... i.e. makes money telling people in conference rooms how to do better.

https://skiplackey.com/about-skip/

[Chief-O]

Skip Lackey (second host of Nick Arcade) is now a life coach, personal growth coach ... i.e. makes money telling people in conference rooms how to do better.

I believe Ross Shafer has also done life coaching in later years as well.

[MikeK]

Not sure it's most unusual per se, but that of Jeff MacGregor into journalism seems to be most thorough, to the point where I believe that the attached video is the most easily-accessible evidence that it is the same man:

It has been mentioned in the print version and/or the online version of Smithsonian Magazine.

[golden-road]

I think Blake Pickett is a photographer now, but I'd suggest her career after Fandango and Top Card has been....  interesting.

(Googles Blake Pickett)... welp, talk about your Fandango. 😳

[BrandonFG]

Skip Lackey (second host of Nick Arcade) is now a life coach, personal growth coach ... i.e. makes money telling people in conference rooms how to do better.

I believe Ross Shafer has also done life coaching in later years as well.

Add Pat Finn to the list. He owns a corporate consulting/coaching firm.

[gamed121683]

I believe Bob Eubanks also went the motivational speaker route, did he not?

Also, remember David Sidoni from Wheel 2000? Well, he's moved on to the world of real estate and even has his own podcast about it now called "How To Buy A Home".

[Stackertosh]

I don't know if this counts Todd Newton brief hosting on HSN in 2006.

Susan Stafford leaving wheel and B.A. in Nutrition and an M.A. in Clinical Psychology.