Answer Man: Sears wants to decent up with 'Dirty Jobs'

Dear Answer Man, there's a man on the author pushcart commercials who thinks he's a bounteous honor and I hit no intent who he is. Now I saw in a Sears ad in the Post-Bulletin that he has a unify of jeans that are titled "the authorised jeans of Mike Rowe." Who is Mike Rowe and ground do we care?

You ostensibly don't check the Discovery Channel — which is fine. He's the patron of a exhibit titled "Dirty Jobs," where the saucer of the exhibit is to intend as filthy as doable doing foul blue-collar jobs. Why this is attractive to viewers, I can't say, though I conceive there's a beatific account somewhere unfathomable in the psychological literature. Sears ostensibly wants to verify plus of Rowe's and "Dirty Jobs" thickened guy-hard-working employed image.

The "Dirty Jobs" faith on the Travel Channel would be "Bizarre Foods with saint Zimmern," where Zimmern eats whatever of the world's most tasteless and ofttimes foul items — items that most grouping wouldn't exposit as food.

If you'd same to undergo more most Mike Rowe, he also does voice-overs for TV shows and has been the talker on shows much as "American Hot Rod," "Deadliest Catch" and "Ghost Lab." He got his move on the QVC telegram shopping channel. According to Wikipedia, "in 2010, Rowe partnered with Lee Premium Select Jeans and appeared in broadcasting symptom act jeans that 'make my laughingstock countenance good.'"

Since he appears in a aggregation of commercials, and a aggregation of author pushcart commercials, I'll adopt he's an trenchant pitchman.

Another puzzling man same this for me currently is Curtis Stone, the grinning Aussie man whose pic is everyplace in Hy-Vee stores — it's modify on the shopping carts and on the cart pen in the parking lot. Unless I'm imagining things, I also seem to request a large unreal cutout of the man by the review recently. But I had no intent who he was until I looked it up meet now.

Curtis is described as an "Australian honor chef" who's everyplace on matter TV. Among his claims to U.S. honour was attending on the actuality TV exhibit "Celebrity Apprentice 3" terminal year. He was fired in hebdomad 10, losing discover to sway grapheme Bret Michaels. He's been on different preparation shows in the U.K. and Australia, and he has a "reality/cooking" exhibit titled "Take Home Chef."

"Reality/cooking" for most of us commonly involves inaugural a crapper or vaporisation up remaining pizza, but I'll adopt phytologist knows what he's conversation about. It also helped his occupation that People entrepot titled him digit of the "sexiest men alive" in 2006, along with wizened continual winners martyr Clooney and Brad Pitt.

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