Samantha Elizabeth Brown was born on 31 March 1970, in Dallas, Texas USA, of German and Scottish descent. Samantha is a television host, best known to have hosted several Travel Channel shows over the course of her career, which have included “Great Hotels”, “Passport to Europe” and “Passport to Latin America”. All of her efforts have helped put her net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Samantha Brown? As of late-2016, sources estimate a net worth that is at $1.5 million, mostly earned through her success as a television host. She’s also delved into business, releasing her own travel luggage brand called Samantha Brown: Travel America. She’s been a part of numerous projects, and as she continues her career it is expected that her wealth will increase.
Samantha Brown Net Worth $1.5 million
Samantha attended Pinkerton Academy in New Hampshire, and after matriculating became a part of the Music and Drama Company. She also took voice lessons, and then attended Chapman University before transferring to Syracuse University, from where she would eventually graduate with a degree in musical theatre.
Early in her career, Brown appeared in a lot of commercials, and was a spokesperson for the company Century Cable. She also appeared in various HP Pavilion commercials, and became a spokesperson for ECCO shoes. In 1999, Travel Channel was looking for a host and held auditions, after which Samantha was chosen and would start travelling the world. She visits numerous vacation destinations and hotels around the world, often also describing activities that can be done in the area. She also showcases food while travelling for around 230 days in a year. According to an interview, it takes her an average of eight days to film an hour long episode, but these contribute substantially to her net worth.
Some of the other shows she has hosted as part of the Travel Channel include “Passport to Great Weekends”, “Great Vacation Homes” and “Girl Meets Hawaii”. Aside from her regular programming, she has also hosted several specials, including “Great Cruises: Freedom of the Seas” in which she was aboard the Freedom of the Seas cruise ship. She also hosted other cruise shows in some of the largest and most expensive cruise lines in the world. In 2007, she hosted “Passport to Great Weekends” which showed her exploring 48-hour vacation sites around the United States. She also filmed “Passport to China” in Beijing.
In 2010, a program called “Samantha Brown’s 10th Anniversary Special” was released which commemorates her 10 years as a host of the channel. She then became a part of the series “Samantha Brown’s Asia”, and made a guest appearance in “The Price is Right”. She has also appeared in an episode of Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” and would do a promotional video of the Disney Resort in Hawaii. She would continue gaining numerous opportunities, with a few of her latest projects including “The Trip: 2014” and “The Trip: 2015” which has her travelling to several countries. She also hosts the series “50/50” with Chris Grundy.
For her personal life, it is known that Samantha married Kevin O’Leary in 2006 and they welcomed fraternal twins in 2013.
