Career
He hails from Øystese. He started his career in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, and worked on Dagsnytt and as a news anchor on Dagsrevyen. In 1992 he was hired by the new television channel television 2.
From 1992 to late 1997 he hosted about 180 editions of the debate program Holmgang.
He also hosted the Norwegian version of Jeopardy! for a period, parallel to hosting Holmgang, but quit in April 1997 to concentrate on the latter program From Holmgang he continued to television 2-nyhetene as a news anchor.
In early 2005 he went from television 2-nyhetene to the breakfast television show God morgen, Norge.