Ben Boyce Biography
Ben Boyce is a comedian and television and radio personality from New Zealand. He is best known for hosting the TV series Pulp Sport, WANNA-BEn, and Jono and Ben on TV3.
How old is Ben Boyce? – Age
He is 44 years old as of 2023. He was born in 1979 in New Zealand.
Ben Boyce Husband
Boyce married his wife Amanda in Fiji in 2008. They have two daughters, both born in 2009.
Where did Ben Boyce go to school? – Education
Boyce is a CPIT (now Ara Institute of Canterbury) alumnus of the New Zealand Broadcasting School.
Ben Boyce Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Ben Boyce Pulp Sport
He then transitioned to radio announcing, co-creating Pulp Sport on Radio Sport and eventually hosting The Rock FM’s night show. Boyce was the creator and star of seven seasons of Pulp Sport. The show grew from a little cult show created in a garden shed to one of New Zealand’s most successful comedy shows. The show aired on TV3, C4, and Sky Sport in New Zealand for seven seasons before being sold to Fuel TV and Network Ten in Australia. Boyce won Best Comedy Show at the New Zealand TV Awards twice and “Funniest Person on TV” at the TV Guides People’s Choice award in 2009.
Ben Boyce Career
Boyce is a CPIT (now Ara Institute of Canterbury) alumnus of the New Zealand Broadcasting School. He was also a co-founder of the Bill and Ben Party, a New Zealand political party that campaigned for government in the 2008 New Zealand general election and won over 13,000 votes, making it the country’s ninth most popular political party (out of 19).
Boyce began by creating radio ads, including the well-known Novus Windscreens “Show Us Your Crack” jingle. Boyce previously campaigned for parliament in the 2008 general election under the guise of the Bill and Ben Party. With almost 13,000 votes, it was the tenth most popular party. Boyce hosted the New Zealand Music Awards in 2011 and 2012 and co-hosted in 2016 and 2017. Boyce shaved his dreadlocks in 2011 to collect funds for a Christchurch earthquake relief organization.
Boyce founded Jono and Ben at Ten with Jono Pryor and Guy Williams in 2012. The show has grown to be one of TV3’s most popular and highest-rated programs. The show was nominated for TV Guide’s People’s Choice for “Best Comedy” in 2013, 2014, and 2015, and both Boyce and Pryor were nominated for “Funniest Person on TV” in 2013. In 2015, TV3 announced that Jono and Ben would move to prime time at 7.30 pm.
On The Rock, Boyce and Pryor worked together once more in 2014 to host the weekday afternoon show from 3 to 7 p.m. In the same year, they brought Vanilla Ice, a hip-hop artist from the 1990s, to New Zealand to take part in the “Vanilla Ice Bucket Challenge,” in which they were subjected to two truckloads of ice water. Subsequently, Boyce and Pryor facilitated Vanilla Ice in a sold-out show.
In 2015, Boyce and Pryor both delivered their own restricted release Jono and Ben V Caffeinated Beverages. The advancement put Boyce and Pryor against one another with their own different flavors and a rivalry to be the most famous.
In September 2015, Boyce and Pryor cruised a kids’ fun palace across Lake Taupo in focal New Zealand. The journey was nearly ten hours and 40 kilometers long. After being put to the test by host of the Rock morning show Bryce Casey, the two of them rode a banana boat across the Cook Strait in February 2016. With 30 hours at Rainbows End, they set the unofficial world record for the longest time spent in a bumper car.
Boyce and Pryor began working on The Edge radio station in 2017. That very year, Boyce and Pryor drove a farm truck more than 650 km from Auckland to Palmerston North, and broke the world record for the longest television interview, talking with superstars for more than 30 hours. The show Jono and Ben was canceled in 2018; On November 15, 2018, the final show aired. Boyce and Pryor have been hosts of The Hits’ breakfast show and TVNZ 2’s Dog Almighty since 2020.
Ben Boyce Arrest
The filming of a WANNA-BEn sketch for the second season sparked a large-scale security concern at Auckland Airport on September 17, 2011. Bryce Casey, host of The Morning Rumble on The Rock, disguised himself as a pilot and attempted to enter the domestic terminal through one of the gates, claiming he had left his security pass on the plane. Six persons, including Boyce, were later arrested for violating the Civil Aviation Act. They were released in 2012 with no convictions.