Jeffrey Lee "Jeff" Probst (born Saturday November 4, 1961) is an American game show host, executive producer and areporter. He is best known as the Emmy Award winning host of the U.S. version of the reality show Survivor. He currently hosts The Jeff Probst Show, a syndicated daytime talk show produced by CBS Television Distribution.
 
From 1996 to 2001, Probst was married to the first of his two wives, psychotherapist Shelley Wright. In 2005, he began dating former Survivor contestant Julie Berry, but in a March 2008 interview, he announced they had split up. Probst married his second wife, Lisa Ann Russell (the ex-wife of actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar), on December 5, 2011. Through this marriage, Probst is a stepfather to Russell and Gosselaar's son Michael (born in 2004) and daughter Ava (born in 2006)