1. Dominic Joseph Bowden was born on 15 December 1977 and is a New Zealand television personality, host and voice actor.
18 Facts About Dominic Bowden
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Dominic Bowden is best known as the host of New Zealand reality series including New Zealand Idol, Dancing with the Stars New Zealand and The X Factor New Zealand.
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Dominic Bowden's parents are a surveyor and a business manager.
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Dominic Bowden is a graduate of the Auckland University of Technology, with a Bachelor of Communication Studies, majoring in Television which he achieved in 2000.
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Dominic Bowden then moved into live television on the weekly late-night music show Space.
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Dominic Bowden traveled the country with British popstar, Robbie Williams for a television special, Robbie Williams: Be Here Now.
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Dominic Bowden, then moved to Australia and into radio, working as a roving nightly reporter for Austereo, on 2Day FM.
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Dominic Bowden appeared as a contestant on Celebrity Treasure Island: Series 1 and Shock Treatment.
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Shortly after, Dominic Bowden signed with Seacrest's then agent William Morris Endeavor and moving to Los Angeles.
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Dominic Bowden was selected by American Idol executive producers Nigel Lythgoe and Ken Warwick to host "The Next Great American Band", which was cancelled after one season.
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In 2014, Dominic Bowden co-hosted the all access show with Lacey Schwimmer for Dancing with the Stars.
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Dominic Bowden was the sole host of the first and second series of the New Zealand version of X Factor.
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Dominic Bowden was the host of the revived sixth season of Dancing with the Stars in New Zealand, alongside Sharyn Casey.
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Dominic Bowden has co-hosted the televised Qantas Television Awards, New Zealand Music Awards, Girlfriend Model Search, NZ Color Trophy Awards and the Christmas at St Matthews Music Special.
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Dominic Bowden has been enlisted as a weekly columnist for the New Zealand Woman's Weekly, New Idea and The TV Guide.
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Dominic Bowden has done voice over work for Bond and Bond and Burger King, as well as appearing in numerous TV commercials, as well as narrator for season 2 of IRT World Deadliest Roads.
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Dominic Bowden interviewed stars for between-movie fillers on Sky Television.
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Dominic Bowden's family are Catholic, and he attends mass when he is in New Zealand.