Grub Smith
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Grub Smith is an English television presenter and journalist for FHM and Poker Player magazines. Born Michael Smith, he adopted the name Grub after being given the nickname by a master at his school, Ampleforth College.
Grub Smith is a graduate of Cambridge University with a Masters Degree in history and anthropology.
After beginning his career on the Literary Review, he worked as a journalist on a series of men's magazines in the UK, starting with GQ.
He hosted the comedy-travel show Travel Sick on Bravo, where he visited a different region of the world in each episode. Once he reached his destination, he was asked to complete five undesirable challenges. If he failed a task, he was forced to perform something extra and even more unpleasant. The series aired on Comedy Central in the United States.
He also hosted the first season of another humorous travel series on Bravo called Sin Cities in 2000. The series looked at sexual entertainment options around the world, and as part of one episode filmed in Los Angeles, Smith appeared in a porn film featuring the famous porn star Mrs. B. Smith co-hosts a spinoff of the sexually-oriented travel series, Sin Cities Unleashed, with Ashley Hames.
In 2005 he appeared on the chatshow Heads Up with Richard Herring to discuss his life, career and his love of poker. He also commentated on the PartyPoker Poker Den, PokerHeaven.com online series and the Celebrity Poker Club series.
On the 10th March 2007 Grub hosted a BBC3 programme Eaten Alive. This was a programme that used his Cambridge degree and his previous experience in Travel Sick to present a serious programme about the disease called Bilharzia and the risks tourist take when visiting parts of Africa.
