Jarvis Chow Yik Wai

Biography

Jarvis Chow Yik Wai was born in Kowloon, Hong Kong, as the only child of his family. He attended Chan Rui Qi (La Salle) Primary School, La Salle College, and graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he majored in language and communication. He entered the entertainment industry by chance in 2006 when he accompanied a friend to an interview for the TVB entertainment news channel and was selected as a host for a year, then went to study Japanese in Tokyo for one year. He hosted various programs including "The Family Clan", "3 Days 2 Nights", and "Y Angle", as well as Japan-themed programs such as "Jarvis in Tokyo", "Miss Japan", and "Tokyo Olympics Live". He was nominated as one of the top five finalists for Best Male Host at the 2021 awards ceremony and won the Best Male Host award at the 2023 ceremony. He is fluent in Japanese and passed the Japanese Language Proficiency Test N1 in 2011, and has served as a Japan tour guide since 2017.