Dominic Bowden
New Zealand television presenter
Dominic Joseph Bowden (born 15 December 1977) is a New Zealand television personality, host and voice actor. He is best known as the host of New Zealand reality series including New Zealand Idol, Dancing with the Stars New Zealand and The X Factor New Zealand. When based in Los Angeles, he hosted the American reality music competition show, The Next Great American Band and as a Hollywood reporter for the Erin Simpson show. Bowden has been called "New Zealand's Ryan Seacrest."
Early life
Bowden was born in Auckland, New Zealand, where he attended Sacred Heart College. His parents are a surveyor and a business manager.
Bowden is a graduate of the Auckland University of Technology, with a Bachelor of Communication Studies, majoring in Television which he achieved in 2000.
Career
After graduating from AUT, Bowden began hosting the popular Saturday morning Children's television programme, Squirt for TVNZ. Bowden then moved into live television on the weekly late-night music show Space. He also traveled the country with British popstar, Robbie Williams for a television special, Robbie Williams: Be Here Now.
Bowden, then moved to Australia and into radio, working as a roving nightly reporter for Austereo, on 2Day FM. Then in 2004, it was announced Bowden would return to New Zealand as the sole host of New Zealand Idol for TVNZ. The Idol series one grand final was watched by a quarter of the country's population.
During this time, for six months Bowden hosted his own nightly radio show for MediaWorks Radio on More FM, called Most Wanted.
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