Bob Hilton (born July 23, 1943) is an American television game show personality. He hosted ''

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'', a revival of ''

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'', and the 1990 revival of ''

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'' for one season and replaced by

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, and announced on several other shows.

Biography

Hilton has announced numerous game shows, such as ''

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''; '' Child's Play''; '' Trivia Trap''; ''

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''; '' The $100,000 Pyramid''; '' Blockbusters''; '' Double Talk''; '' The New Newlywed Game''; '' The All-New Dating Game''; '' Strike It Rich''; ''

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''; and ''

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''. His first game show announcing assignment was in 1980 on '' Tic-Tac-Dough'' (filling in for regular announcer Jay Stewart), followed by '' The Joker's Wild'' and '' Play the Percentages'', after he began a contract with Barry & Enright Productions, that same year. Hilton also announced ''

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'' following the death of its original announcer,

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. According to former producer

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, he did extremely well. However, Hilton was already working on several other shows at the time, so the job was given to

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. Hilton's non-game show announcing work included the 1988 CBS specials ''Live! Dick Clark Presents'' and the ABC daytime program ''

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'' in the early 1990s. Hilton got his start in Louisiana at station KPLC-TV. He traveled around to various stations as news anchor/reporter, such as in

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in Houston, KGAN-TV in

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, WNAC-TV in Boston (''The Bob Hilton Show''), and KHJ-TV in Los Angeles. He later went on to

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. Hilton is a

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. On one occasion he turned down a television show job because he and his wife Joni felt that it was "too titillating."

Wife

Hilton is married to the former Joni Pennock. She was Miss California USA in 1976. She has also been a TV talk show host. More recently she has written 23 books, many of them novels with explicitly Mormon characters and themes, such as ''As the Ward Turns''. She has also worked as a magazine correspondent and writer to the

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program ''Music and the Spoken Word''. She is also a playwright.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hilton, Bob American game show hosts Latter Day Saints from California Game show announcers Let's Make a Deal Living people Latter Day Saints from Louisiana 1943 births