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- While still living in Baltimore and looking to break into television, Mike Rowe visited a friend tending bar at a local tavern, and he had the TV set on QVC. The home-shopping channel had studios a couple of hours away in Pennsylvania, and Rowe bet his bartender friend $100 that he'd ace his audition and advance to the next round of selections.
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After talking about a pencil for almost eight minutes, Rowe was hired. He worked the graveyard shift at QVC for three years and became an expert at speaking about a product for long periods of time without ever saying anything too important.
Every celebrity has an interesting back story on how they broke into the industry, but no one knew that Mike Rowe got his start by crashing an audition at QV...
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Sep 25, 2024 · The home-shopping channel had studios a couple of hours away in Pennsylvania, and Rowe bet his bartender friend $100 that he'd ace his audition and advance to the next round of selections. Instead, QVC hired Rowe immediately, and he was given a middle-of-the-night shift.
Jul 12, 2020 · Mike Rowe, host of “Dirty Jobs” is returning with new series, “Dirty Jobs: Rowe’d Trip” and chatted with Kit Hoover and Scott Evans on Access Daily about the...
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Jan 10, 2022 · Mike Rowe booked jobs as a narrator and ended up on QVC for a while. But when he got an unexpected call from his mother, that's when he changed his career path.
Circa 1992, Mike Rowe (host of Dirty Jobs) worked in (very) late-night TV selling crap to idiots on QVC. He used the opportunity to its full comedic potential.
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Jan 25, 2022 · Mike Rowe had zero television experience when, in 1990, he auditioned for a gig on the QVC home shopping channel. As Rowe wrote in a Facebook post, he "had no qualifications to speak of" when he auditioned, which consisted of demonstrating he could talk "for eight minutes without stuttering, blathering, passing out, or throwing up."
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