Chip Arndt Biography
Chip Arndt is an American gay activist who won The Amazing Race 4 with former partner Reichen Lehmkuhl in 2003. He was an investment banker before joining The Amazing Race.
How old is Chip Arndt? – Age
He is 56 years old as of 2 October 2022. He was born in 1966 in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States. His real name is Willis Chapman Arndt Jr.
Chip Arndt Family – Education
Arndt, the youngest and only boy of four children, attended Hotchkiss School, a private school in his hometown of Connecticut, before winning a fellowship to a 13th year at Harrow College in Northwest London. In 1990, he graduated with honors from Yale University, where he also served as captain of the golf team.
He worked as an investment banker for Morgan Stanley as well as in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles for five years. In 1996, he enrolled at Harvard University for an MBA. He was the president of the Harvard Graduate School Leadership and Ethics Forum, as well as the chairman and founder of the Annual Harvard Business, Law, and Harvard Kennedy School Debates. He was also the president of the Harvard Business School Gay and Lesbian Student Association.
Chip Arndt Partner
He was in a relationship with Reichen Lehmkuhl. The couple married in 1999 and separated in 2003. Reichen told Metro Weekly in an interview that the couple, who were “married under God” in a February 2, 2002 ceremony at the Hotel Bel Air in Los Angeles, had “been trying since we got back from the race to get along and work things out and it just wasn’t happening. Reichen tells Metro Weekly that the couple, who were “married under God” on February 2, 2002 at the Hotel Bel Air in Los Angeles, had “We’d been trying to get along and work things out since we got back from the race, but it just wasn’t happening.
Chip Arndt’s Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Chip Arndt The Amazing Race
Arndt and former partner Reichen Lehmkuhl competed against eleven other teams in the fourth season, which aired in May 2003 after being taped in January and February 2003. The couple married on February 2, 2002, after meeting in 1999 while Reichen was still in the United States Air Force. They had requested that CBS identify them as a married couple despite the fact that they were not legally married.
Anti-gay activists reacted angrily to the identification of a gay couple as married. Reichen and Chip had an 83% popularity rating on the show’s official website by the final episode. Arndt completed seven of the eleven roadblocks. They finished second on five of the race’s legs, with their victory on the final leg giving them their second first place, eight minutes ahead of runners-up Kelly and Jon. The season finale aired on August 21, 2003, with CBS winning both the time slot and the night. Season 4 was later nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program.
Chip Arndt Career
Following her victory, Arndt has been active in the LGBT community and has appeared on the cover of The Advocate. Arndt spoke to a group of gay-straight alliance leaders later that month. He was named “Best Local Male Hero” by Express Gay News for using “his fame and good fortune to help others.” He is a spokesperson for the annual five-state Braking the Cycle AIDS ride benefiting New York’s GLBT Community Center and Miami’s SMART AIDS rides, and he has raised funds for other organizations such as the Point Foundation, the Human Rights Campaign, and the Matthew Shepard Foundation, for which he serves as a Strategic Advisor. He is a co-founder of Scott Hall’s Gay American Heroes Foundation and the website CoupleForEquality.com.
Arndt was also one of the commentators on The Amazing Race 10’s official CBS Website, where he answered questions from fans about his experiences and behind-the-scenes knowledge about the series, and revealed that he accidentally ran into the returning teams secretly chosen for the show’s 11th season, the anticipated “All Stars” version, at an airport. Arndt gives a golf clinic at the Advocate Golf Classic every year to benefit the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF).
He produced the 2005 AIDS Walk Miami as the former Public Relations and Marketing Manager for Care Resource, South Florida’s oldest and largest HIV/AIDS services organization, and spearheaded the 21st annual White Party, its week-long fund-raiser, which, at his initiative, emphasized a zero tolerance drugs policy for the first time. His participation in two AIDS rides and two AIDS walks in 2007 resulted in a US$100,000 challenge benefiting nine HIV/AIDS service organizations, and he solicited donations through a special MySpace page.
He is currently the Executive Vice President and Director of Business Development at Merchant Advantage, a Miami-based e-commerce software company that he helped establish. Arndt was named a PLEO (Party Leader and Elected Official) Obama delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention and one of Florida’s 27 electors to represent the state in the Electoral College. He voted for President-elect Obama and Vice President-elect Biden in Florida’s state capital of Tallahassee. Arndt was the first openly gay man in Florida to vote in a presidential election.