Sean Evans (interviewer)
Sean Evans (born April 26, 1986) is an American YouTuber who is best known for co-creating and hosting the series Hot Ones, in which he interviews celebrities as they eat progressively spicier chicken wings. Education and early career Sean Evans was born in the Chicago suburb of Evanston to Michael Evans and Donna Arthofer. He has a brother named Gavin. Evans is a 2004 graduate of Crystal Lake Central High School, where he played football and baseball. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism, where a professor suggested he become a weatherman. He grew up looking up to the interviewing prowess of Howard Stern, Jimmy Kimmel, David Letterman, and Adam Carolla. One of his earliest memories, he says, is his dad taping Letterman during the week and binge-watching them all on a Saturday. Before working as an interviewer, Evans was a copywriter for the Chicago tourism board, when he started freelancing for Complex Magazine in New Orleans, doing on-screen interviews with celebrities such as 2 Chainz and Steph Curry. Complex liked his interviews and offered him a full-time job, so he quit his copywriting job and moved