Jesse Palmer

Life and work

The story behind the role.

Canadian player of American football, sports broadcaster born 1978.

Jesse James Palmer (born October 5, 1978) is a Canadian television personality, sports commentator, and former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for five seasons. Palmer played college football for the Florida Gators under coach Steve Spurrier, and then played professionally for the New York Giants in the NFL before spending half of the 2006 season with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Palmer was cast in 2004 as the Bachelor on the fifth season of the reality television series The Bachelor. He went on to become a college football analyst for ESPN/ABC in the United States, and has been a contributor to The Sports Network (TSN) in Canada. He was also a contributor to ABC's Good Morning America. In 2018, he hosted the kickoff season of The Proposal on ABC. Since 2017, he has hosted the Holiday Baking Championship on Food Network. He was host of DailyMailTV from 2017 to 2020. In 2021, Palmer was named as the permanent host of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.

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