Alex Boylan

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Alex Boylan
Occupation(s)TV show host, producer
Television The Amazing Race 2
Website AlexBoylan.com

Alex Boylan is known as a reality TV contestant, TV show host and producer. He first came to public attention as part of the winning team together with his friend Chris Luca in the second season of the reality TV show The Amazing Race in 2002. He was later involved in various TV projects such as Around the World For Free and Animal Attractions Television.

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Early life

Alex Boylan grew up in Boston. [1] When he was sixteen, he spent a year playing semi-pro soccer for the club "Campinesse" in Campina Grande, Brazil. [2] He was a student at Jacksonville University studying International Business on a soccer scholarship. [3] [4] During his time in Jacksonville, Boylan played soccer where he helped the team win the conference tournament while making a run to the NCAA Division 1 Sweet Sixteen. He graduated from Jacksonville University with a B.S. in International Business. [5] He worked as a bartender before joining The Amazing Race. [6]

The Amazing Race

in January 2002, Boylan competed on the second season of the CBS adventure reality show The Amazing Race with his lifelong friend, Chris Luca. The two reached the final leg of the race and won. [7]

    Career

    Alex Boylan is an executive producer, show creator and host.

    After winning The Amazing Race, Boylan went on to work for the production company PineRidge Film and Television. During this time, he hosted numerous television shows including, At the Chef’s Table (2004), a food series on PBS. In 2005 and 2006 Boylan hosted Health Corner’s, What’s Cooking with Alex, and Animal Attractions. [8]

    Boylan created and produced the DVD series Dropping In: Panama and Dropping In: El Salvador. Both documentaries follow surfers as they traverse lands in search of the perfect wave. [8]

    In 2006, Boylan partnered with Burton Roberts to create a production company Around The World Productions, which has produced hundreds of hours of interactive content. In their interactive series directed by Zsolt Luka, Around the World for Free, Boylan showed how one can travel around the world for free using only social media. [9] Other shows include Jeff and Jordan Do America, the Buzz Tour for CBS, Rach to the Rescue for The Rachael Ray Show, Tales from the Trail for The Boy Scouts of America, Missions In Action, and destination content pieces for Travel Channel and Lonely Planet. [8]

    Boylan joined CBS This Morning as an adventure correspondent, and he was also a guest host for VH1's Big Morning Buzz Show as well as a travel host for The CBS Buzz Tour. [8] He has travelled to over 55 countries around the world. He is a co-founder of a website DreamJobbing.com. [10] [11]

    Currently, Boylan hosts and produces The College Tour, a TV series telling the story of colleges and universities around the world from the student lens, already on its eleventh season. [12]

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    2. ↑ Alex Boylan To Receive Amos Memorial Award from JU Archived 2011-06-20 at the Wayback Machine
    3. ↑ dolfinnetwork
    4. ↑ "Reality Stars from Jacksonville". Archived from the original on 2011-08-18. Retrieved 2011-06-23.
    5. ↑ "Alex Boylan". Around The World Productions.
    6. ↑ CBS Announces 'Amazing Race 2' Cast
    7. ↑ "The Amazing Race 2".
    8. 1 2 3 4 "WCCO Partners With 'CBS Buzz Tour' At Minnesota State Fair". CBS Minnesota. August 22, 2012.
    9. ↑ Huff, Richard (April 12, 2009). "Free thinker from 'Amazing Race' goes global". New York Daily News.
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    11. ↑ "Three Cool Job Search Resources From Payscale, DreamJobbing and Major League Soccer". Forbes. 6 May 2015.
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