India, South Africa, Namibia, Arizona, Maine and New York City. From 2018 to 2019, Richard hosted 38 episodes of Weekend With Yankee on PBS’s Create. TV & Film Wiese appeared in two feature films: in 1981, in a brief scene with Brooke Shields in Endless Love and in 1986, as ‘Chris’ in Club Paradise. He was host of Exploration with Richard Wiese, a TV series that was syndicated in the U.S. and distributed internationally. He also hosted Hell on Earth, which aired on Discovery in the U.S. and BBC in the UK. He also hosted NOW ( Network of the World) in London with Brian Cox. Wiese also occasionally appeared in various skits on Saturday Night Live in the 1980’s. Popular Media In 2003, he was named as one of People Magazine’s “Hottest Bachelors.” He has appeared on Late Night with Craig Ferguson, CNN, Dateline, FOX News, BBC, MSNBC, ABC News, CBS Morning Show, Good Morning America, WB11’s Morning Show, and many other programs, as well as in USA Today, the New York Times, Newsday, People, Esquire, Science, the Washington Post, National Geographic, the Los Angeles Times, the Times of London, Wine Spectator, and Forbes. Print Wiese is the author of the guidebook, Born to Explore: How to Be a Backyard Adventurer, published by Harper in 2009. Honors In 2006, the American Museum of Natural History Expeditions named Wiese as an ‘Explorer in Residence.’ He was honored at the 2005 Boy Scout National Jamboree, where he addressed 90,000 people and had a camp named after him. By invitation of King Mohammad VI, he was the U.S. representative to the Moussem de Tan Tan, a gathering of 45,000 nomadic Arabs in Morocco, and he received a Special Lifetime Achievement Award by the Science Museum of Long Island. As a journalist, he has received numerous honors, including multiple Emmy Awards’s, a Genesis Award, an Associated Press Folio Award, and a Golden Halo Advertising Award for Best Environmental/Wildlife Campaign. Personal life Wiese lives in Weston, Connecticut with his wife and three children. References External links richardwiese.com Richard Wiese Bio on Born to Explore 1959 births American explorers Living people People from Long Island American male writers People from Weston, Connecticut American scientists