You must have recognized the cast of the American reality show ‘Pawn Stars’ if you have ever seen it. But it is a popular reality show that originally aired on the History Channel. The program featured the contents of the daily activities of the world famous gold and silver pawn shop. Also, the store was originally operated by Richard Harrison and his son Rick Harrison’s along with his childhood friend Austin Russell (Chumlee). The show features Rick’s son Corey Harrison (Big Hoss) and adult actress Olivia Black was hired in the fifth season as a night shift employee.
In addition to being associated with Pawn Stars, he is also a producer and actor on 2014’s ‘Blood Sweat and Heels’ and ‘Resurrection’. Additionally, due to his affection for historical artifacts and his interest in learning about valuable objects, he has the nickname ” The Observer”. To find out more about the TV personality, let us scroll down to dwell on his information together.
Subtitle : Pawn Shop Star Rick Harrison
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Rick Harrison: biography, family, education
‘Pawn Stars’ owner Rick was born on March 22, 1965 in Lexington, North Carolina, USA. He has an American nationality and an American ethnicity. He was born Richard Benjamin Harrison to JoAnne Rhue Harrison and Richard Benjamin Harrison. His father was a businessman and reality star who died on June 25, 2018 and there is no information about his mother.
He had three siblings: younger brother Sherry Joanne Harrison who died at the age of 6. His other siblings are Joseph Kent Harrison and older brother Christopher K. Harrison. Furthermore, they grew up together in Davidson, North Carolina, United States.
In addition, he was diagnosed with epileptic seizures at the age of eight, which led him to limit himself to bed and fall in love with books. From then on, he was quite interested in reading, in particular physics and history. As for his educational background, he attended Taft High School and dropped out during the 10th grade. He dropped out of high school to boost his business selling fake Gucci bags.
Rick Harrison: career and life achievements
The person who had an entrepreneurial mind from the beginning of his career had fought hard to get what he has today. In his struggle period, he worked in his father’s shop during the day while reprocessing cars at night. In his autobiography, he recounts his little shop’s struggles with the Pawn Shop and the struggles they had been through.
The store was established in the year 2006, which has brought old and historical special sporting goods. Includes American football cornerback Brock Williams’ New England Patriots Super Bowl ring. Furthermore, he had revealed that most of the items they brought into the store would be jewelry.
In 2003, his store was featured on the show ‘Insomniac with Dave Attell’. However, after that, he has been tossing around the idea of making the show about his store, but it didn’t go well. But in 2008, Harrison was approached by Brent Montgomery and Colby Gaines to create the show based on his pawnshop. The show aired on the History Channel, initially titled ‘Pawning History’, later renamed Pawn Stars. The show featured his father Richard, his son Corey and their childhood friend Chumlee.
In 2011, as an author, his published biography ‘License to Pawn’ reached number 22 on The New Times Best-Seller list. In the same year, his show got the highest rating on the History channel. And the second highest rated reality show behind Jersey Shore. He became a spokesperson for the Micro Touch One Razor shaving product in 2014.
Rick Harrison: personal life and wife
He has earned a good name for his show and store, however, he was unable to achieve much success in his love life. Furthermore, she has been married three times and divorced twice. Currently, he has married his current wife, Deanna Burditt. They exchanged vows on July 21, 2013. Since then, they share a strong bond and understanding with each other.
He was previously married to Kim during their teenage years after his girlfriend of 17 years became pregnant. Together they welcomed their firstborn son Corey in April 1983. But they parted ways after the death of their second son, Adam. Later, he married his second wife, Tracy, with whom he had a son, Jake. But his second marriage also resulted in failure due to some misunderstanding.
Subtitle : Rick and his wife Deanna Burditt
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Rick Harrison: Net Worth and Social Media Profiles
Speaking of the pawn shop owner, Rick’s father opened the shop in 1981, on Las Vegas Boulevard South. Since then, the store has been doing such a good business that he became a pawn on reality show Stars in 2003. Thus, he earned a large amount from the show as well as from the store. The businessman has an estimated net worth of $8 million and a salary of around $300,000 per Pawn Stars season. He lives in the house valued at $4 million in Summerlin, Las Vegas.
He has personal and verified accounts on different social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter. He has an Instagram account @rick_harrison with 475k followers. On Twitter, he goes for the handle @OroPlata with 236k followers. But he doesn’t use any Facebook account.
