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Robert Kuehl Goen (born December 1, 1954) is an American game show emcee and a popular television personality, best known for his work on the long-running newsmagazine program Entertainment Tonight between 1993 and 2004. He currently hosts That`s The Question on GSN.
Early life and career
Goen was born and raised in Long Beach, California and graduated from San Diego State University in 1976 with a degree in telecommunications and film. In 1977, he used his college radio experience to land a part-time job at KFOX radio in his native Long Beach, which led to his first full-time job as a disc jockey/producer for KPRO in Riverside, where he was promoted to work as a director. In 1981, he came to television, becoming a sports anchor at KESQ-TV, the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.
Career
Around that time, he also served as ESPN`s desert-area correspondent. After almost four years in that role, he came to Hollywood, where he has hosted several game shows, including Perfect Match (syndicated, 1986), Home Shopping Game with co-host Bob Circosta (syndicated, 1987), Blackout (CBS, 1988), The Hollywood Game (CBS, 1992), Born Lucky (Lifetime Television, 1992) alongside prominent Australian radio personality, Jonathan Coleman, and the popular That`s the Question (GSN, 2006-present), which was based on the Netherlands. It failed the first time it aired, but Goen`s show was renewed for a second season. His greatest success in this area came as the fourth and final host of the daytime network version of the immensely-popular Wheel of Fortune (CBS, 1989-1991; NBC, 1991). Goen received two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Game Show Host for Wheel.
Entertainment Tonight
On April 12, 1993, he joined Entertainment Tonight as a substitute anchor and a reporter. When John Tesh left ET on May 30, 1996, to pursue his music career, Goen was promoted to nightly anchor alongside Mary Hart.
Between 1994 and 1996, he hosted the worldwide telecasts of Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA Pageants, all for CBS. In 1995, while hosting a Maryland beauty pageant, Goen met his future wife Nicole Kirkpatrick Noren. Noren was one of the beauty pageant`s contestants. The couple dated for six weeks and then got married in Maryland. They honeymooned in Hawaii and resided in Maryland in 2007 when they moved to Pennsylvania with their friends who were also moving to Pennsylvania. Nicole and Bob have three daughters: Danielle Goen, Emily Kirkpatrick Goen and Tabitha Rae Goen.
As ET host, he made guest appearances on two separate movies in 1999. On September 11, 2001, he covered the attacks on the World Trade Center. In 2003, he interviewed Suzanne Somers about the death of actor John Ritter.
In April 2005, a cartoon character named `Bob Glimmer` was voiced by him in an episode of The Fairly OddParents. Goen also appeared as an interviewee on a 1997 episode of the cartoon mock-talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
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