Nev Schulman is opening up about switching career paths and learning his long-running show Catfish was canceled.
In a new interview, the 41-year-old host of the MTV series revealed the shocking way he found out it was no longer moving forward, over a year after the last season aired.
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While speaking with Variety this week, Nev said he learned the show was axed at the same time as everyone else!
“I had the sense the show wasn’t going to get renewed, but there was never anything communicated to me,” he dished.
Nev hosted the show across nine seasons and almost 300 episodes, from the time it first premiered in 2012 until July 2024, when the last episode aired. However, amid parent company Paramount’s merger with Skydance Media, he was in the dark on the future of the show.
“I’m not going to sit around and wait by the phone,” he said. He then started on a backup plan to make money – jumping into real estate and following in his father’s footsteps!
“TV is unpredictable,” he explained of his new career. “If I’m being perfectly honest, as a responsible adult and father of three children, and someone who takes my role in this family as the provider very seriously, I thought I should have another source of income.”
“There are a lot of similarities between falling in love with a person and falling in love with a property,” he added. “People feel as though they know me from the show, and they do. There’s a comfortability and a trust that’s been built because I’ve been in their homes, I’ve been on their TV screens.”
However, Nev isn’t ruling out a return to Catfish, as the network has allowed producers Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost and Andrew Jarecki, who hold the rights to it, to shop it elsewhere.
“We feel strongly that the show still holds a tremendous worth culturally,” he said. “There’s certainly no shortage of loneliness and people looking for love.”
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