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Thomas Joseph Leykis (born August 1, 1956 in New York, New York) is the host of a radio talk show syndicated in the United States of America by CBS Radio.



Other projects and media appearances

Leykis was the host of "Boys Night Out," a live comedy stage show that took place at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles and the Paramount Theater in Seattle. The line-up of male comedians included Bobby Slayton. The shows were for men only and men were strongly discouraged from bringing girlfriends, wives or any other females. He also appeared on the third season "Family Values" episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit! and served as the co-host of "Poker Royale: Battle of the Sexes" on GSN, formerly the Game Show Network.

Leykis appeared on Bill Maher's older show, Politically Incorrect in a fairly infamous episode with Daisy Fuentes, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and Emme. He inflamed the women (especially Fuentes) when the subject moved to familiar turf for Tom – dating and "getting tail". The audience loved his "three strikes" rule, which states that if the female does not have sex with the male by the third date, he should dump her. Tom also got a loud response from them with, "Many of us were created because our parents didn't have time to go to the drugstore before they went to the drive-in". Fuentes and Leykis had a fairly heated exchange of words before the next commercial break.

He has been asked about writing a book on "Leykis 101" and said that it's being considered but no formal announcement has been made. He has also said he's had numerous meetings with Hollywood executives about creating a TV series only to have those talks lead to nothing.

Personal life

He is the oldest of four children. His father, Harry Leykis, was in charge of the publication department and was a union leader at The New York Post newspaper in New York City. He has two sisters and one brother. The family lived first in the Bronx, and then moved to Long Island.

Leykis attended Fordham University for two years. During that time he tried and failed to get on the air as a student. He had to drop out of school after two years because he couldn't afford to continue.

His fourth wife, Susan Drew Leykis, filed a police report against him while they were married and living in Boston in 1993 . She alleged that Leykis assaulted and threatened to kill her during a fight after they returned home from a radio station Christmas party. The charges were dropped after he agreed to complete a domestic violence program for six months, although Leykis did not admit guilt as part of the agreement (see ). They separated in 2001 and divorced in 2003. He lives in the exclusive enclave of the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles.

Tom Leykis was also married to award-winning KTTV news reporter Christina Gonzalez.

An avid Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Kings fan, he is also a wine aficionado who spends his free time reading Barron's Magazine, watching CNBC, "traveling abroad and doing anything else you can do with a broad!".

Tom has been married and divorced a total of four times, and he has no known children.

He hasn't had a vasectomy.

Trivia

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  • In the late 1990s, Leykis would occasionally merge his radio show with the equally outspoken James Whale Show from the United Kingdom, which aired in the same time slot, resulting in a single simulcast show co-hosted by Leykis and Whale via a satellite link between the two studios. In these cases, Leykis and Whale would alternate equally between American and British callers.
  • He repeatedly refers to the city Portland, Oregon as "Porkland, the home of the other white meat."
  • The Tom Leykis Show has only had a fill-in host once -- Rod Roddy, the Price Is Right announcer who earlier in his career was a radio host with a similar style to Leykis'. Other than that, the show airs reruns and best-ofs when Leykis is away.

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