Reichen Lehmkuhl Biography
Reichen Lehmkuhl is a lawyer, businessman, reality show winner, former model, and occasional actor from the United States. He is best known for winning season four of the reality game show The Amazing Race with his then-partner Chip Arndt, as well as his much-publicized 2006 relationship with pop singer Lance Bass.
How old is Reichen Lehmkuhl? – Age
He is 49 years old as of 26 December 2022. He was born in 1973 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. His real name is Richard Allen Lehmkuhl.
Reichen Lehmkuhl Family
After his parents, a police officer and a nurse, divorced when he was five years old, his family relocated to Norton, Massachusetts, and his mother remarried. He legally changed his first name from Richard to Reichen sometime after 2002. Lehmkuhl received his bachelor’s degree from the United States Air Force Academy. As a spokesperson for the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, he has since advocated for gay rights in the military.
Reichen Lehmkuhl Partner
He was in a relationship with Chip Arndt. The couple married in 1999 and separated in 2003. Former NSYNC band member Lance Bass revealed to People in July 2006 that he is gay and in a “very stable relationship” with Lehmkuhl. The couple divorced in January 2007. They remained “good friends,” according to Bass. His other relationships include; Lance Bass from 2006 to 2007, Rodiney Santiago, from 2009 to 2010, and Keith D. Black from 2012 to 2013.
Reichen Lehmkuhl Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $20 Million.
Reichen Lehmkuhl The Amazing Race
When a casting director for The Amazing Race approached Lehmkuhl, he was working as a physics teacher at Crossroads School for the Arts and Sciences, a flight instructor, and a model in Los Angeles. During the competition, Lehmkuhl and Chip Arndt were a couple, but they have since broken up. Lehmkuhl briefly relocated to Dallas, Texas after winning The Amazing Race, but before all episodes were aired. Reichen’s spending habits at the time fueled speculation that he had won The Amazing Race — and that he and Arndt were no longer together. Throughout the show, the couple was frequently referred to as “Married” in the subtitles that depict the relationship between team members (other teams being, for example, “Best Friends” or “Father-Daughter”).
Reichen Lehmkuhl Career
In September 2003, Lehmkuhl appeared as “Impossibly Handsome Man” in an episode of Frasier, followed by a cameo on “The Drew Carey Show.” Lehmkuhl hosted The Reichen Show on Q Television Network until the network went out of business in May 2006. On October 28, 2006, Carroll and Graf published his autobiography, Here’s What We’ll Say, about his time in the Air Force under the military’s official “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. The book was adapted into a screenplay, according to the New York Post in November 2010. For several years, he published a beefcake calendar and appeared on sitcoms, soap operas, and reality television shows.
On May 1, 2007, the LGBT-interest television network here! announced that Lehmkuhl had joined the cast of its original gothic soap opera, Dante’s Cove, for the third season. He plays Trevor, who is described as “a business school graduate who comes to Dante’s Cove looking for himself.”
From May 5, 2010, to July 24, 2010, Lehmkuhl starred in My Big Gay Italian Wedding, an off-Broadway production in New York City. Through Broadway Impact, a portion of ticket sales supported the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States.
On June 3, 2010, the LGBT-interest network Logo announced that Lehmkuhl and her boyfriend, model Rodiney Santiago, had joined the cast of The A-List: New York. After two seasons, the show was canceled. Lehmkuhl and Santiago have broken up since the show aired. In 2010, he released an album called Up to the Sky. He also established LeaseLock.com.