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Frank Fritz Net Worth: How Rich is American Pickers Star Actually?

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3 years ago

September 25, 2021

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Frank Fritz is an American reality TV star, who is best known for co-hosting the History Channel’s popular reality TV series “American Pickers”. Frank was hosting the reality series along with his longtime friend, Mike Wolfe since its debut season in 2010. He made his last appearance on the antiquing roadshow in March 2020. As of 2022, Frank Fritz net worth is estimated to be around $7 million.

Full Name	Frank Fritz
Birth Date	October 11, 1965
Birth Place	Davenport, Iowa, U. S.
Profession	Reality star, Antique collector
Relationship Status	Single
Net Worth	$7 million

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Early life

Frank Fritz was born on the 11th of October, 1965 in Davenport, Iowa, United States. He was born to parents, Bill and Susan Fritz. His father, Bill used to work in a pharmacy, and his mother, Susan was working as a nanny who would look after other’s children for a living. He has a sister named, Ohio.

Frank has studied in high school, however, he declined to further continue his study in college. He has studied at Bettendorf High School, from where he earned his graduate degree in 1982. Frank met his best buddy, Mike Wolfe while studying at Sudlow Intermediate School. He used to enjoy collecting rocks, postage stamps, and beer cans since he was a small kid. He was also passionate about riding dirt bikes.

Frank Fritz Net Worth & Career

Frank has dedicated his teenage days working at Quad-City Automatic Sprinkler, and Coast to Coast Hardware. He was actually saving money working in two places to purchase a Harley-Davidson motorcycle which was worth $4,100. Following high school graduation, he started working as a fire inspector. He had served 25 years of his life as a fire inspector.

Frank took a permanent leave from his work as a fire safety inspector in 2002 and started focusing on collecting vintage and antique items. Soon after some time, he opened the antique shop, Frank Fritz Finds based in Savanna, Illinois. Frank started getting popular through his extraordinary talent of searching for vintage toys and cars. In 2010, he started appearing on the History channel’s reality series “American Pickers”. Fritz was hosting the series along with his longtime friend, Mike Wolfe.

The reality series gathered over 3 million viewers when the first episode premiered on January 18, 2010. It was the network’s highest-rated debut since 2007, where the previous best debut was for “Ice Road Truckers”. Frank was last seen co-hosting the much loves antiquing roadshow in 2020. At that time, he went through back surgery, and he was suffering from Crohn’s disease.

Frank is not making a come back to the new season of American Pickers. The history channel made confirm the news that Frank will not be returning as a co-host of American Pickers. In the recent interview with The Sun, he said about his last appearance in the series, “I didn’t leave the show. I finished shooting and then I had a little back surgery and the pandemic came.”

Frank Fritz Personal Life

Frank Fritz is assumed to be single as of now. In 2012, there came a rumor that he tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend, Jodi Faeth. However, he never confirmed the news. Frank is also rumored to be gay when the rumor started circulating that he is in a homosexual relationship with Mike Wolfe.

Frank was charged with Operating While Intoxicated (OWI) in 2017. He was taken into custody for driving the wrong way on the interstate. After he was proved guilty, he paid a fine of $625 and received one year of unsupervised probation. He also had to attend a substance evaluation program.