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American television personality

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Ross Mathews (born September 24, ) is an American television host and personality. He rose to fame as an intern and a correspondent for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno; he was known as "Ross the Intern" on air.

Mathews has appeared on Celebrity Fit Club, The Insider, Celebrity Big Brother, and as a weekly panelist on Chelsea Lately. He is a judge on RuPaul's Drag Race, hosts a weekly podcast with Westwood One Studios, and assists with hosting The Drew Barrymore Show. He has been a co-host on Live from E! and a correspondent on The Jay Leno Show.

Early life

Raised in Mount Vernon, Washington, Mathews graduated from Mount Vernon High School and graduated from the University of La Verne, in La Verne, California, in He majored in communications and competed in speech and debate competitions.

Career

Mathews began as an intern on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Beginning in December , he covered movie premieres, the Academy Awards, two Winter Olympic Games, and other events.

Mathews has contributed commentary to the E! networks various specials, and appeared as a weekly panelist on E's late night talk show Chelsea Lately. He appeared on the fifth season of VH1's reality television show, Celebrity Fit Club. During the course of the show, which premiered in April , Mathews lost more than 40&#;lbs. (18&#;kg) and helped his team win the grand prize. He was also a guest host on The View on July 17,

Mathews appeared as a celebrity mob member on seven episodes of NBC's prime time game show 1 vs. in early In , he was a contributing correspondent on The Insider, and hosted a web show on The Insider called Inside Dish With Ross Mathews; he took viewers behind the scenes as an "o

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The following interview is part of The Advocate's "Rocky Road" series, which is inspired by the upcoming Amazon Prime Video film Uncle Frank, out November 25, and its themes of family acceptance, coming out, and revelatory road trips.

From a small farming town in Washington State to his big move to Los Angeles years ago, Ross Mathews, the affable, inspirational TV personality and RuPaul's Drag Race judge has always been authentically himself.

"I come from a small farm town. When I left to the big city, I was going to change and come back a different person. I just happen to have lucked out and had the best family, the best mom in particular, in the history of time," Mathews told The Advocate in a recent video interview.

"When I moved to Los Angeles and came home my first Thanksgiving, I remember wearing platforms, I think I had dyed my hair purple or something. It was just completely different," he says. "My mom, though, was just so wonderful. And I know that's not everybody's experience. But she was just so proud of me for being an individual. I think she saw her hard work of constantly instilling the ideology of I can do anything sort of really taking shape in adulthood."

While he credits his family and particularly his mom with being open and accepting, he says he grew up never seeing someone who looked like him -- without queer role models. Since Mathews, who jokes, "I've been gay since birth," first appeared as Ross the Intern on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, it's been part of his mission to be visible and represent for those coming up behind him.

"I remember being a kid in a farm town and realizing I was gay and then asking myself, What does a gay grown-up person look like?" Mathews says. "And then when I couldn't pic