Inside The Amazing Race host Phil Keoghan massive net worth

The newest season of Amazing Race is officially underway – and it already looks like an all time classic.
Season 36 of the CBS competition show premiered Wednesday. The show features 13 couples, including an NFL star, as they begin their journey to win $1 million in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Phil Keoghan is back as host of The Amazing Race. The TV personality, 56, started the gig in 2001, and doesn’t appear to be stopping anytime soon.
The New Zealand native has won 10 Primetime Emmys for his work, which has led him to amassing a hefty net worth.
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Phil Keoghan has a net worth of $16 million, according to Celebrity Net Worths. A part of that comes from his high per-episode salary, which is $100,000.
While Amazing Race has been his main hosting job the last 20 years, he’s also developed a TV show called No Opportunity Wasted in 2004. Keoghan also wrote a companion book No Opportunity Wasted: 8 Ways to Create a List for the Life You Want.
In an alternate universe, he could’ve been the host of Survivor. Keoghan auditioned for the host of Survivor and almost got the job, but it ultimately went to the now longtime host Jeff Probst.
“Well, by the time I got the call that I got the [The Amazing Race] job, I’d been through so much stress leading up to that point because I’d missed out on a bunch of jobs and I had been up for Survivor and it was between Jeff and I for that job,” he told Us Weekly in 2023.
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“I thought that show sounded really cool…where these people go to an island [and] they’re trying to survive. It sounded like fun.”
The star is also an avid cyclist. In 2009, he participated in Ride Across America, a money raising event for multiple sclerosis research.
He’s known to be an adrenaline junkie, and he’s broken a bungee jumping world record, gone diving in the worlds longest underwater cave and eaten a meal on top of an erupting volcano.