Phil Wrighthouse is a well know teacher, who has had the dream since childhood of hosting a game show.
Phil Wrighthouse recently he gets the chance to appear in the trivia game show The Chase airing on ABC.
He will compete on the May 3 premiere episode of the American television quiz show adapted from the British show of the same name.
The show is hosted by Sara Haines, and Victoria Groce, Buzzy Cohen, and Brandon Blackwell as the new chasers, alongside returning chasers James Holzhauer and Brad Rutter.
Phil, who has always loved game shows and claims to possess a wealth of useless knowledge in everyday life will check his luck on the show.
Phil Wrighthouse is a man Attica, Indiana who is set to appear on the trivia game show, The Chase. He is an online teacher based in his hometown of Attica, Indiana.
He got his BA in Mass Communication and Media Studies from Purdue University. Later he got his Master’s degree from Indiana Wesleyan University in 2014.
Before the pandemic, he taught for years in Frankfort, Indiana. He joined the staff of the Indiana Gateway Digital Academy based in Clarksville, Indiana after months of virtual learning. In the wake of the pandemic, the academy focused on online education.
He possesses a ton of useless knowledge and trivia. His mother was a teacher when he was a kid and during the summer vacations, Phil used to watch a lot of television game shows such as Jeopardy, The Price Is Right, and The $10,000 Pyramid.
Phil is married to his wife Liz Wrighthouse. She is a behaviorist. He has a daughter Norah aged 5 years old. His mother was a teacher during his childhood days. There are no details on his father.
The online teacher proposed to his wife after hearing Kevin Pollack, a game show host tell contestants to be bold and take chances. The family of three live in their Attica home with a pet dog named Lucy.
The exact age of Phil Wrighthouse is currently unknown. But an estimate about his age by his looks can be done. He seems to be in his mid-30s.
On the show, three competitors must pit their wits against the chaser, who is determined to stop them from winning the cash prize. It used to air on GSN from 2013 to 2015 but moved to ABC in 2021. The first season premiered on January 7, 2021, and the second one on January 5, 2022. The latest season is set to premiere on May 3, 2022.
Phil started writing and hosting trivia games from his basement after the in-person trivia night was canceled.
The Attica teacher started auditioning via video calls for game shows and found the process weird because the audition never went well for him. He had to act like he won the sum of money from his basement, which he found tough.
Phil is active on instagram as philwrighthouse, and his twitter handle is @MrWrighthouse.