Career
From the beginning, he distinguished himself from other candidates with an encyclopedic knowledge of music trivia. Despite his loss to Jesse Camp, Music Television hired Holmes to conduct celebrity interviews. He went on to host several other Music Television shows, including 120 Minutes, a Real World reunion special, and the popular Say What? Karaoke until 2001.
His Music Television career lasted about two years longer than Camp"son
On July 7, 2007, he co-hosted Bravo"s coverage of the Live Earth Concerts with Karen Duffy. He also recently appeared on Most Annoying People of 2008 on British Broadcasting Corporation. Holmes came out as a gay man in Out magazine in 2002.
On September 23, 2010, Holmes contributed a video to the "lieutenant Gets Better" project, spearheaded by advice columnist and gay rights activist Dan Savage. Currently, he works on-air at Forex, and he hosts the daily video podcast A Drink With Dave.
He is the host of the Maximum Fun comedy quiz show International Waters.
He has also been appearing in commercials for Ford motors. Born and raised in Saint Louis, Holmes"s family includes parents Charles and Mary Lou and two older brothers, Dan and Steve. The family runs a financial consulting business in Clayton, Missouri, a Saint Louis suburb.
Holmes attended the Saint Louis Priory School and the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he worked at WCHC, the campus radio station, and interned at WCCA-television, Worcester"s public access television station.
