Host Mark L. Walberg

Host Mark L. Walberg

Series host Mark L. Walberg is well known to audiences for his roles as host and talent on some of America's most talked-about game and reality shows.

Walberg started his television career as an assistant at Dick Clark Productions and quickly moved on to host a sports magazine show on ESPN. It was there that the late Brandon Tartikoff noticed his work, and that association produced the nationally syndicated The Mark Walberg Show. Since then, Walberg has hosted and been featured in an array of popular talk, reality competition, and game shows, including home-improvement competitions The Mansion and House Rules, and knowledge quiz shows Test the Nation and Russian Roulette. As a contestant playing for charity he even won The Weakest Link. He also hosted the relationship challenge Temptation Island. He recently appeared in the ABC Family Movie of the Week I Want to Marry Ryan Banks. Realizing a long-held ambition to produce, Walberg created and produced Sunday Dinner, the first original series for the Odyssey Network, with long-time friend and television personality Mark DeCarlo (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Jimmy Neutron).

Walberg admits to being a long-time ANTIQUES ROADSHOW fan who watches with his family. "With my 20-year career in game and quiz shows," he said, "I know ANTIQUES ROADSHOW has a winning formula — the excitement and challenge of finding out how much something is worth gets viewers to tune in, and along the way they get hooked by all the incredibly interesting history."

In addition to his successful television career, Walberg believes strongly in devoting time to create opportunities for young people. Currently he is on the board of directors of Goodwill of Southern California and the board of managers of the Hollywood/Wilshire YMCA. Both organizations are instrumental in providing hope and new futures for people who need help. He also is very involved with The Young Americans, a musical performance youth group that tours the world offering music workshops in underserved schools. Says Walberg, "the personal transformation that happens to people when they are given the ability to express themselves through the arts — specifically music and dance — is inspiring."

Walberg and actress-wife Robbi Morgan Walberg make their home in Los Angeles, where Walberg coaches their two children's various little league sports teams.