Mikey "The CHIMP" Glazer is a television producer

Television producer

The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

 and event planner known for his work on reality television

Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...

 programming. Glazer produced NBC reality/game show Fear Factor

Fear Factor

Fear Factor is an American stunt/dare reality game show. The original Dutch version was called Now or Neverland. When Endemol USA and NBC adapted it to the American market in 2001, they changed the name to Fear Factor. The show pits contestants against each other in a variety of stunts for a...

from 2001-2006. After Fear Factor ended its run, Glazer was Supervising Producer of the CBS Primetime Special Dr. Phil’s Romance Rescue. Currently, Glazer resides in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

 and continues to work in various television projects, as well as event planning and as a columnist for TheWRAP.

Biography

Glazer attended the prestigious boarding school Deerfield Academy

Deerfield Academy

Deerfield Academy is an independent, coeducational boarding school in Deerfield, Massachusetts, United States. It is a four-year college-preparatory school with approximately 600 students and about 100 faculty, all of whom live on or near campus....

, in Deerfield, Massachusetts

Deerfield, Massachusetts

Deerfield is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 4,750 as of the 2000 census. Deerfield is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area in Western Massachusetts, lying only north of the city of Springfield.Deerfield includes the...

, graduating in 1994. Following that, he graduated from Georgetown University

Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

 with a degree in Government.

Television career

Glazer began his career as an intern at The McLaughlin Group

The McLaughlin Group

The McLaughlin Group is a syndicated half-hour weekly public affairs television program in the United States, where a group of five pundits discuss current political issues in a round table format. It has been broadcast since 1982, and is currently sponsored by MetLife...

, a political talk show in Washington, D.C. He later relocated to Los Angeles and worked for Bunim/Murray Productions

Bunim/Murray Productions

Bunim/Murray Productions is an entertainment production company based out of Van Nuys, California, and is considered a pioneer in the reality television genre. It is best known for The Real World, The Bad Girls Club, and Road Rules...

, creators of the MTV's The Real World

The Real World

The Real World is a reality television program on MTV originally produced by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray. First broadcast in 1992, the show, which was inspired by the 1973 PBS documentary series An American Family, is the longest-running program in MTV history and one of the...

and Road Rules

Road Rules

Road Rules was an MTV reality show that debuted on July 19, 1995. The series, which was MTV's second reality show after The Real World followed six strangers between the ages of 18 and 24 after stripping them of their money and putting them on an RV traveling from location to location only guided...

. While at BMP, Glazer was the assistant to frequent collaborator and mentor, Matt Kunitz

Matt Kunitz

Matt Kunitz is a television executive producer known for his work on reality television programming. In July 2008, the Los Angeles Times dubbed Kunitz "The King of Reality TV." Kunitz is currently the executive producer on Wipeout, a stunt based competition reality game show he created for...

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Glazer produced NBC's Fear Factor

Fear Factor

Fear Factor is an American stunt/dare reality game show. The original Dutch version was called Now or Neverland. When Endemol USA and NBC adapted it to the American market in 2001, they changed the name to Fear Factor. The show pits contestants against each other in a variety of stunts for a...

from 2001-2006. While promoting Fear Factor, Glazer appeared on NBC's The Today Show and VH1

VH1

VH1 or Vh1 is an American cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting's short-lived Cable Music Channel, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slightly...

's VH1 News Presents: Reality Secrets Revealed. During this time, he also was Supervising Producer of the CBS Primetime Special Dr. Phil’s Romance Rescue. In 2006, Glazer was producer of Telemundo's Vas o No Vas

Vas o No Vas (US game show)

Vas o No Vas was the American Spanish-language version of Deal or No Deal, which debuted on Telemundo from October 8, 2006 to May 26, 2007 and it was produced by Endemol and NBC...

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In 2008, Wipeout producers hired Glazer was to find a “comic host replacement” for Elon Gold, eventually hiring John Henson

John Henson

John Morris Henson is an American comedian, talk show host, and actor. He is the co-host of ABC's Wipeout, a prime-time series game show now in its fourth season.-Biography:...

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Event Planning

Glazer is also known for event planning. Most notably, his creation of a nationwide event tour for Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...

 Identity

Identity (film)

Identity is a 2003 American thriller-mystery film, directed by James Mangold and written by Michael Cooney. The film stars John Cusack, Ray Liotta, John C. McGinley and Amanda Peet. The plot was inspired by Agatha Christie's novel And Then There Were None.-Plot:Malcolm Rivers is awaiting...

, as well as TV Guide

TV Guide

TV Guide is a weekly American magazine with listings of TV shows.In addition to TV listings, the publication features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews and crossword puzzles...

's SeenOn.com launch party, and other prominent media and press events in Los Angeles. From 2007-2010, he produced the celebrity baby gifting suite "Boom Boom Room."

Blog

Glazer is the owner and head writer of gossip blog “TheCHIMP.net”, named after his alter-ego. On his website, Glazer posts gossip items about a variety of his prominent friends and celebrities. Articles are delivered with an irreverent and satirical style, best known for highlighting peoples' educational institutional and professional affiliations (i.e.: Duke ’02, Harvard Business School ’05, Merrill Lynch ‘current)

In July 2009, Glazer stopped covering Hollywood events on thechimp.net so he could become the party reporter and columnist for Sharon Waxman’s entertainment industry news site TheWRAP.com . He currently writes a column featuring photos and inside details from Hollywood Events that publishes twice weekly.

Glazer also runs a Twitter

Twitter

Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...

feed of celebrity sightings @CelebSightings which has over 11,000 followers.