Matt Gallant (born June 25, 1964) is an American television host. He is well-known as the former host of the Emmy Award-winning The Planet's Funniest Animals on Animal Planet. He has also served as a guest judge on various other television shows featuring animals and pets. Gallant played the role of a reporter in Good Burger (1997), co-hosted Xbox Live: Launch Party and Game On (2002), and hosted Simon Cowell's American Inventor in 2006. Matt Gal...
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Matt Gallant (born June 25, 1964) is an American television host. He is well-known as the former host of the Emmy Award-winning The Planet's Funniest Animals on Animal Planet. He has also served as a guest judge on various other television shows featuring animals and pets. Gallant played the role of a reporter in Good Burger (1997), co-hosted Xbox Live: Launch Party and Game On (2002), and hosted Simon Cowell's American Inventor in 2006. Matt Gallant is now featured on Direct TV's Help/Information Channel.
Born in Syracuse, New York and raised in Westport, Connecticut, Gallant studied communications and theatre at the University of Rhode Island in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. In his senior year, Gallant worked in the sports information department and broadcasted university basketball and football games. He held an internship covering sports news at Channel 6 in Providence, Rhode Island.
After graduating, Gallant moved to New York where he became a page at NBC and filled audiences...
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