Drew Carey has hosted The Value Is Proper for nearly 18 years, however in that point, he’s barely watched various minutes of the present.
The beloved host opened up in a current interview with Parade, the place he promoted the highly-anticipated launch of the Thirtieth-anniversary version of The Drew Carey Present: The Full Sequence on DVD, out this fall. Within the interview, Carey admitted he doesn’t like watching himself on TV.
“Not plenty of my followers know [that] I don’t like watching myself on TV. I’ve an actual exhausting time,” he stated. “I’ve sat within the modifying room just a few instances on The Drew Carey Present, and I needed to depart. I don’t do it that usually as a result of each time I noticed it, I used to be like, ‘That’s what I appear to be? And that’s [how] I stroll?’ I get so uninterested in seeing myself.”
Carey is on TV virtually on daily basis with The Value is Proper and The Value Is Proper at Night time, to not point out reruns of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, the improv comedy present he hosted from 1998 to 2007. Nonetheless, the comic can’t stand seeing himself on-screen.
He recalled how a Value is Proper producer as soon as made him watch himself so he might give him notes on his efficiency. “I used to be like, ‘Oh my God.’ He was like, ‘I do know, I apologize.’ And he actually needed to twist my arm to make me watch myself, even on The Value Is Proper,” Carey defined.
“So I’ve all the time been like this. I don’t watch The Value Is Proper. I don’t watch The Drew Carey Present. Now and again, I’ll put it on [to] identical to see a minute of it, or Whose Line,” he added.
Carey has been open previously about his psychological well being and the way he avoids issues that may be triggering. Chatting with Us Weekly again in February, the sport present host shared, “I’m very cautious. I watch my psychological well being on a regular basis. And when it’s time to remain off social media, I keep off social media at night time. I learn the newspaper on daily basis. I do the Jumble and I take a look at the headlines. [Sometimes] I am going, nope, not at this time.”
Despite the fact that Carey doesn’t like seeing himself on TV, he loves internet hosting the Value Is Proper, which celebrated its milestone 10,000th episode in February.
“I’m taking part in video games all day! There are greater than 70 completely different contests on the present, so I’m by no means bored,” he instructed Us Weekly. “It’s like recreation night time at dwelling: What are we going to play tonight? Is it going to be Scrabble or Monopoly or Playing cards In opposition to Humanity? I’m additionally actually considering how folks arrive at selections beneath strain.”
He stated he needs to host “ceaselessly… so long as I’m mentally and bodily in a position to present up. It’s such a enjoyable factor! The cash’s good, however it’s only a cool job. I don’t should go to work, I get to go to work! It’s a privilege to be right here, an honor. So we’ll see how lengthy I maintain up.”