If you watch TV quite often, you might have seen a program called Dr Phil. Dr Phil is a very famous American TV presenter who studied to become a psychiatrist at university. He did a PhD degree after finishing his university studies.
While he was a student at university, he was a football player. His team was once beaten 100/6 by another university. This means that his team scored only 6 goals while the other team scored 100. It was a huge defeat for his team.
He appeared on a very famous American TV show called Oprah and had weekly appearances for some time because of the very positive feedback from the program viewers.
Later on, Dr Phil started his own TV show and it was an instant hit with millions of viewers each week. Now he gets more than 15 million dollars a year for hosting the TV show. He is an accomplished author too. He writes books that become best sellers in many countries around the world. Dr Phil is more of a motivational talker than a TV talk show presenter. He gives people ideas of how they can lead a better life and deal with life's hardships.
He travels overseas quite often to talk to audience in many countries. The topics he chooses are important for many people because he gives advice on health, building relationships, achieving goals, parenting and losing weight.
Most of his audience are females but there are millions of males who watch his shows and leave comments on his web page. Also on his web site, people can contact his production team if they have an interesting story that can be shown on TV.
