1. Robin Douglas Leach was a British-American entertainment reporter and writer from London.
18 Facts About Robin Leach
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Robin Leach attended Harrow County School for Boys, 10 miles from London, where he edited a school magazine, The Gayton Times, at age 14.
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Robin Leach moved on to the Daily Mail as Britain's youngest "Page One" reporter at age 18.
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Robin Leach got his start in television as a regular contributor to AM Los Angeles, with Regis Philbin and Sarah Purcell on KABC-TV.
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Robin Leach was a guest at the World Wrestling Federation's WrestleMania IV, where he read the rules for the championship tournament, and then paraded the championship belt before the final match.
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Robin Leach became well-known as host of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, a show that profiled the lives of the wealthy, and aired in syndication from 1984 to 1995.
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Robin Leach hosted two Lifestyles spinoffs, the syndicated Runaway with the Rich and Famous, and ABC's Fame, Fortune and Romance, along with future Today Show host Matt Lauer.
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On 10 February 1995, Robin Leach played himself in a special appearance on the American family sitcom Boy Meets World in Season 2, episode 17 entitled "On the Air".
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Robin Leach hosted The Surreal Life: Fame Games on VH1 in 2007.
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Robin Leach served as the public address announcer for the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
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Robin Leach wrote for the Las Vegas Sun and the daily VegasDeluxe.
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Robin Leach appeared in the 2006 documentary film Maxed Out, which chronicled the rise of the credit card industry in the United States and the concurrent increased personal debt among working-class people.
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Robin Leach remarked, "Nobody would watch Lifestyles of the Poor and Unknown".
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Robin Leach appeared with his wife in an episode of Celebrity Wife Swap, in which he swapped wives with Eric Roberts.
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Robin Leach appeared in the Vice Channel series Most Expensivest, with the rapper 2 Chainz.
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Robin Leach married Judith Desser in 1968, and they divorced in 1977.
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On 20 November 2017, Robin Leach had a stroke while on vacation in Cabo San Lucas.
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Robin Leach had another stroke on 20 August 2018, and died under hospice care in Las Vegas on 24 August, at age 76.