Joey Fatone (The Singing Bee - 2007)
The final two celebrities turned game show hosts featured on this list are musicians, best known for being members of a band. It's only fitting that both of these guys would host music-based game shows. First is Joey Fatone, one-fifth of the mega-successful boy band *NSYNC. Five years after the band went on hiatus from making new music, and the same year he came in second place on season four of Dancing With The Stars, Joey emceed The Singing Bee for NBC in 2007. It was in direct competition with FOX's music-driven game show Don't Forget the Lyrics, which may make an appearance very shortly (wink, wink). Unfortunately, the show only lasted for a total of 18 episodes on NBC, but was revived on CMT with host Melissa Peterman and centered around country music.
The game started by Fatone entering the studio audience to chose the contestants. As the band played a song, Joey would sneak up on someone and have them sing the next line in the song right then and there. Whether they were right or wrong, if the microphone was held to your face, you were heading up on stage to play the game. Over the course of three rounds, contestants played games which required them to correctly sing song lyrics, and as the show's catchphrase mentioned, "you don't have to sing it well, you just have to sing it right." In the end, one contestant would become The Singing Bee champion and play the bonus round for $50,000. The show was excellent and did not deserve to get canceled as early as it did. Besides the format being superb and the theme song being very catchy, one of the reasons why the show was so much fun was Joey's hosting.
Joey Fatone is a fantastic host, which is why he has been picked to host many other shows after his stint on The Singing Bee, including Food Network's Rewrapped and a stage show version of the longest-running game show in television history, The Price Is Right Live. He was also the announcer of Family Feud from 2010 to 2015. Joey always looked like he was having so much fun on The Singing Bee, whether he was in the audience trying to find the perfect contestants, telling people they had the correct lyrics on stage or just dancing along to the music. As a viewer, if you can tell that the host is having fun, chances are you will have fun as well. His boyish attitude and his bright smile were infectious, and even when he was reading the teleprompter to describe the rules, it felt like he was speaking to you directly, which is hard for many hosts to accomplish. It's truly a shame that The Singing Bee got canceled when it did because, with Joey Fatone as the host, the show easily could have survived on NBC for a few more seasons.
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