 Palmer in November 2010 | |||||||||||
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| Position: | Quarterback | ||||||||||
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| Born: | October 5, 1978 Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||
| Weight: | 225 lb (102 kg) | ||||||||||
| Career information | |||||||||||
| High school: | St. Pius X (Ottawa, Ontario) | ||||||||||
| College: | Florida (1997–2000) | ||||||||||
| NFL draft: | 2001 / round: 4 / pick: 125 | ||||||||||
| CFL draft: | 2001 / round: 2 / pick: 15 | ||||||||||
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Jesse James Palmer (born October 5, 1978)[1] is a Canadian television personality, sports commentator, and former professional football player who was a quarterback for five seasons in the National Football League (NFL) in the early 2000s. Palmer played college football for the Florida Gators under coach Steve Spurrier, and thereafter, he played professionally for the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers in the NFL before spending half of the 2006 season with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL).
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 ESPN/ABC in the United States,[2] and has been a contributor to The Sports Network (TSN) in Canada.[3] He was also a contributor to ABC's Good Morning America. In 2018, he hosted the kickoff season of The Proposal on ABC. Since 2017 he has hosted the Holiday Baking Championship on Food Network. Jesse was host of DailyMailTV from 2017 to 2020. Palmer married model Emely Fardo on June 5, 2020, at a close friend's house in Connecticut.[4] In 2021, Palmer was named as the permanent host of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.[2]
- ^ "Jesse Palmer". National Football League. Retrieved August 14, 2017.
- ^ a b "Jesse Palmer: College Football Analyst". ESPN. Retrieved August 14, 2017.
- ^ "[Columns by Jesse Palmer]". The Sports Network. Archived from the original on July 22, 2013.
- ^ Mauch, Ally; Rice, Nicholas (October 4, 2021). "The Bachelor's Jesse Palmer and Model Emely Fardo Are Married: We're 'Lucky to Have Found Each Other'". people.com. Retrieved October 13, 2021.