Jesse James Palmer is a Canadian TV host, sports commentator, and former professional football player. Palmer played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers in the NFL. He was cast in 2004 as the bachelor on the fifth season of the reality television series The Bachelor. In 2018, he hosted the kickoff season of The Proposal on ABC. Since 2017 he has hosted The Holiday Baking Championship on The Food Network.
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Jesse James Palmer is a Canadian TV host, sports commentator, and former professional football player. Palmer played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers in the NFL. Palmer was cast in 2004 as the bachelor on the fifth season of the reality television series The Bachelor. He went on to become a college football analyst for ESPNABC in the United States, and has been a columnist for the website of The Sports Network in Canada. In 2018, he hosted the kickoff season of The Proposal on ABC. Since 2017 he has hosted The Holiday Baking Championship on The Food Network. Jesse was host of DailyMailTV from 2017-2020. His father, Bill Palmer, played for the Ottawa Rough Riders. His mother, Susan, was a prominent fashion and print model, co-founder of Barrett Palmer Models and former owner of the original ITM International Top Models, a modeling agency and training centre located in Ottawa; eventually became the current agency MIM Model International Management.
He was born in Toronto, Ontario, and raised in Nepean, Ontario. He attended both Confederation and St. Pius X high schools, although he played all of his amateur football on teams in the Ontario Minor Football Association and most importantly with the Ottawa Norsemen and Myers Riders Football Clubs in Ottawa. He played for coach Steve Spurrier’s Florida Gators football team from 1997 to 2000. In 2002, Palmer played in two games, and the following season, he was sacked by Washington Redskins defensive end Bruce Smith, Smith’s 199th career sack, which enabled him to become the all-time career sack leader. Palmer graduated in 2001 with two undergraduate degrees: a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and a Business Administration degree in marketing.
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