David Drew Pinsky is an American media personality and internist. He hosted the nationally syndicated radio talk show Loveline from the show’s inception in 1984 until its end in 2016. On television, he hosted the talk show Dr. Drew On Call on HLN and the daytime series Lifechangers on The CW. He has also hosted several shorter educational television series, starting with Strictly Sex with Dr. Drew, which ran for 10 episodes on the Discovery Health Channel. In 2008, Pinsky starred in Celebrity Rehab with Dr Drew, a reality television show which involves celebrities in a drug rehabilitation facility.
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David Drew Pinsky is an American media personality and internist. He hosted the nationally syndicated radio talk show Loveline from the show’s inception in 1984 until its end in 2016. On television, he hosted the talk show Dr. Drew On Call on HLN and the daytime series Lifechangers on The CW. He has also hosted several shorter educational television series, starting with Strictly Sex with Dr. Drew, which ran for 10 episodes on the Discovery Health Channel. In 2008, Pinsky starred in Celebrity Rehab with Dr Drew, a reality television show which involves celebrities in a drug rehabilitation facility. Pinsky currently hosts several podcasts, including The Dr. Drew Podcast, This Life with Dr Drew, and The Adam and Drew Show with Adam Carolla. He is a former staff member at the Department of Chemical Dependency Services at Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, California, and Huntington Memorial Hospital. He currently maintains a private internal medicine practice in South Pasadena. His father, Morton Pinsky, was a physician whose parents emigrated from Ukraine. His mother, Helene Stanton, was a singer and actress who came from a \”highly Victorian upper-middle-class family in Philadelphia\”.
Pinsky attended Polytechnic School. He majored in biology at Amherst College, graduating in 1980, and earned his M. D. at the University of Southern California School of Medicine in 1984. His first television appearance was as a contestant on Wheel of Fortune in 1984, though he did not win. He also served as health and human relations expert on the first season of the U.S. TV series Big Brother in 2000. He later hosted the MTV series Sex…. Mom and Dad which addressed everyday health issues. In November 2009, he starred in the VH1 show Celebrity Rehab, which included celebrities from the first two seasons of Celebrity Rehab continuing their recovery in a sober living facility. The series premiered on January 10, 2008, and has been renewed for multiple seasons. A follow-up show with many of the same celebrities was Sober House, which began its first season in November 2009. On April 21, 2016, Pinksy announced Lovelines would wrap up on April 28, 2016.
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