Samantha Brown

Emmy Award-winning TV host Samantha Brown was born in Dallas, and spent her formative years growing up in New Hampshire. Back then, “traveling” meant loading up the family station wagon to visit relatives in Pennsylvania. Her biggest international trip was driving across the border to Canada for a family vacation to Quebec in junior high school. Little did she know that she would eventually be traversing the globe as an intrepid TV host and adventurer. Samantha’s career as a television travel host happened by accident. A producer spotted her work in a commercial and recommended her to the Travel Channel in 1999 to audition for a new show called “Great Vacation Homes.” A decade of various series followed, including “Great Hotels,” “Girl Meets Hawaii,” “Passport to Europe,” “Passport to Latin America,” “Green Getaways,” “Passport to China,” “Great Weekends,” “Samantha Brown’s Asia,” “The Trip,” and “50/50.” Samantha’s fun-loving style has made her a revered and engaging television personality whose approach is less expert and more a person you would want to travel with. Over the last 20 years, Samantha has traveled around the world, visiting over 260 cities in 62 countries, and approaching all situations with humor. It’s a style that has endeared her to a large and loyal television audience, and helped earn her shows two Emmys.