Hollywood actor Rob Lowe is hosting the new FOX game show Mental Samurai, which premieres on Tuesday, March 18. The show’s tagline is: “the ultimate obstacle course for your mind.” Contestants are strapped into a wild seat that looks like something you’d find at an amusement park. They must answer 12 questions in 5 minutes while strapped into the moving orbital seat.
When not hosting Mental Samurai, Lowe is filming the Netflix movie Christmas in the Wild with Kristin Davis (Charlotte on Sex and the City). She plays a jilted wife traveling alone in Africa, where she meets and falls in love with an elephant conservationist (Lowe). Lowe’s 24-year-old son John Owen Lowe is playing his character’s son. It’s not the first time father and son have worked together in front of a camera. John played the recurring role of Joel Zadak on the TV series The Grinder, and John and his older brother Matthew co-starred with their dad on The Lowe Files (2017), a show where the Lowe men investigated supernatural events.
Rob and John Owen Lowe on the set of Christmas in the Wild…
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[Watch Rob Lowe and son John Owen on The Grinder]
After Hollywood actors Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman were pressed with fraud charges related to the current “college cheating scandal”, John Owen Lowe took to social media to professed his gratitude for having “the privilege and opportunity to have a tutor and to afford practice test programs” and the idea of kids who don’t and lost the chance at their dream school to someone undeserving is “really, really gross.” He graduated from Stanford University in 2018.
Note: Rob Lowe did not go to college. After graduating from Santa Monica High School in 1982 (where he met Charlie Sheen), his acting career took off. In 1983, he landed the role of Sodapop Curtis in Francis Ford Coppola’s film The Outsiders with Sheen’s brother Emilio Estavez. Mental Samurai airs Tuesdays at 8 pm on FOX.
Still proud of this achievement. Happy for everyone out there who earned their accomplishments…and really sad for those who were never allowed the opportunity. pic.twitter.com/P7rDMGJfuU
— John Owen Lowe (@Johnny_L0we) March 12, 2019
I studied for MONTHS for the SAT. Twice, sometimes three times a week. Tons of practice tests. Ended up taking the SAT multiple times as well. College apps were no joke… the amount of stress kids put into that to potentially lose a spot to someone unfairly is horrible.
— John Owen Lowe (@Johnny_L0we) March 12, 2019
Proud Stanford dad Rob with John Owen…
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