Jacobs Biography
Chris Jacobs is a TV personality and host well-known for Overhaulin’ and Long Lost Family on TLC. In addition to hosting The Insider and serving as a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight, he has previously aired “NFL AM” and “Up to the Minute” updates for the NFL Network.
After attending Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, he moved to California in 1988 and enrolled in Whittier College, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English. In addition, he studied and completed his studies at Western State University College of Law. In 1995, he was admitted to the California State Bar, though he hasn’t been active since 1999.
Jacobs Age
Chris is 54 years old as of 30 January 2024. He was born on 30 January 1970 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Jacobs Wife and Daughter
Chris and his fiancée are set to have a daughter in 2022.
Jacobs Family
At the age of fourteen months, Jacobs was adopted. With the help of his adoptive parents, he was reunited with his birth mother, Mary Hagberg, in 1993 at the age of 22 through an adoption locating service.
Jacobs’s Work
Before being chosen to co-host Overhaulin’ in 2004, Jacobs enjoyed a minor amount of success with roles in television (such as Two and a Half Men), movies (such as 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out), and commercial projects. He co-presented The Insider with Lara Spencer from 2009 to 2011, following the show’s 2008 interruption. His appointment as an Entertainment Tonight correspondent was revealed on March 5, 2011. After Overhaulin’ returned for a sixth season on Velocity in the fall of 2012, he departed ET in early 2013.
After leaving Entertainment Tonight in 2013, Jacobs started working as a weekend host for the NFL Network. He has also presented a number of live shows for Discovery networks, including as Klondike Live, Gold Rush Live, Chopper Live, Skywire Live, and Skyscraper Live. In 2014, he started co-hosting the live Barrett-Jackson Auto Auctions show on Velocity. November 2015 marked the end of Overhaulin’s final season on television.
Long Lost Family’s production started in June 2015, and it premiered on TLC on March 6, 2016. Together with Lisa Joyner, Jacobs presented the program until its conclusion in 2019. Jacobs started serving as a spokesperson for wrench.com, a software firm that aims to provide mobile repairs directly to customers, in January 2019. Jacobs was revealed as the newest member of the MotorTrend broadcast crew for the Mecum collectible vehicle auction in February 2022.
