Chris Jacobs

Chris Jacobs is a television host and personality He is the host of Overhaulin and the lead host for BarrettJackson Collector Car Auctions which both air on Velocity He formerly hosted The Insider and also worked as a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight He now also works for NFL Network and recently hosted the interactive portion of Chopper Live and Gold Rush Live both on Discovery Channel He attended New Trier High School in Winnetka Illinois and then Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills Michigan before moving to California in 1988 where he attended Whittier College earning a bachelors degree in English He also attended and graduated from Western State University College of Law and was later admitted to the state bar of California in 1995citation needed1 He had small television roles in The XFiles CSI Touched by an Angel and Two and a Half Men In July 2009 he hosted a TV infomercial for CarMD vehicle diagnostic tool with Keri Hatfield the winner of Miss Utah USA 2000 In 2011 the infomercial Save with CarMD also won the Moxie Awards for Best Long Form of the Year Under 250k On November 22 2009 he was the presenter for the live telecast of the Miss California USA pageant From 2009 to 2011 he copresented The Insider with Lara Spencer On March 5 2011 it was announced that he had been named a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight Jacobs left ET in early 2013 Jacobs TV series Overhaulin returned for a sixth season on Velocity in the fall of 2012 From 2013 when Jacobs left Entertainment Tonight he became a weekend presenter for the NFL Network He hosted Skywire Live on Discoverycom for the Discovery Channel in June 2013 In November 2014 he hosted Skyscraper Live for Discovery Channel in his hometown of Chicago Illinois Jacobs is the primary talent for live and special events for all networks in the Discovery family In January 2015 Jacobs resumed the role of host for Velocitys Live broadcast of the Barrett Jackson Auto Auctions On October 13 2015 Velocity announced the final season of Jacobs longrunning series Overhaulin In June 2015 production began on Long Lost Family which debuted on TLC on March 6 2016 Jacobs hosts the show along with Lisa Joyner