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Tom Bergeron (born May 6, 1955 in Haverhill, Massachusetts) is best known to the public as the host of America's Funniest Home Videos, which he has hosted since 2001, as well as the TV game show Hollywood Squares, which he hosted from 1998 to 2004. He was also the host for the ABC reality series Dancing with the Stars (2005 to present). He is a Daytime Emmy winner.

One of his first jobs on television was as host of the local game show Granite State Challenge on New Hampshire Public Television. He moved on in the late 1980's to host an afternoon talk show, People are Talking With Tom Bergeron on WBZ-TV in Boston, and by the early 1990's he also had an early-morning radio show called The Tom Bergeron Show on WBZ Radio. In 1996, he became the co-host of Fox After Breakfast along with Laurie Hibberd (under the name Breakfast Time -- the show originally aired on the fledgling fX network several years earlier). This show ran for one year on Fox; eventually it became The Vicki Lawrence Show after a number of cast changes. On that forgettable show, Bergeron was forced under contract to play the Carol Burnett character in drag, while an aged and by-then senile Harvey Korman played himself, still missing most of his cues as always. Nevertheless, Bergeron managed to later get signed to a contract with ABC News as guest host to Good Morning America. After Charles Gibson left the show, Bergeron was seriously considered as a permanent replacement, but that job went to Kevin Newman.

In later years, Bergeron appeared twice on Star Trek: Enterprise as an alien trader named D'Marr and as a Coridan Ambassador. He also appeared in an episode of The Nanny in 1998. In 2005 he began hosting the ABC reality series Dancing with the Stars.

Bergeron is married and has two daughters. He lives in Greenwich,^[1] Connecticut.

In 2005, Bergeron was a co-host on the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon, and in 2006 he was elected national vice president of the association.^[1]

• Bergeron appeared on an episode of the new I've Got A Secret on Game Show Network on December 30, 2006. His "secret" was that he used to perform as a pantomime, on various street corners. He stated that he started when he was 20 years old and performed in theatres, on street corners, etc. He failed to stump the panel.
• Bergeron is the 2007 March of Dimes WalkAmerica spokesperson.

He was an extremely-popular radio DJ in the Seacoast area of New Hampshire in the late 1970's and early 1980's on WHEB, where he played comedy records along with music.

1. ^ ^{a b} "People & Places" column in Business section, The Advocate of Stamford, July 26, 2006, page A11

• Tom Bergeron at the Internet Movie Database
• Tom Bergeron article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.