Alex Debogorski is an American trucker and reality TV star, born on 4 August 1953, in Berwyn, Alberta Canada. He’s known for being one of the stars of “Ice Road Truckers”.

Early Life

Alex was born the first of five children of Irene and Stanley Debogorski. Although both his parents were born in Poland, they met in England post- World War II. His mother studied music and math at Cambridge University, while his father served in the Free Polish Brigade as a paratrooper. After their wedding in London, the couple moved to a farm in Canada, were Alex was born.

There’s no information about Alex’s younger siblings, though it’s known he had to take care of them after his mother’s death when he was 12 years old.

His father worked two jobs at the same time, leaving his children alone for too periods: ‘Dad worked on the Railroad and he farmed so he really had no time for watching kids because he had to watch cows and pigs and make sure the Railroad kept working. So, I was in charge. He worked hard at finding a woman, but I don’t know how many women would want to come live in a shack out in the bush with no running water’.

Alex attended the University of Alberta, though he left it after a year and never graduated.

Career

Various Jobs

Trying to provide for himself, Alex Debogorski worked as a club bouncer, taxi driver and other part time jobs the first couple years after leaving college.

His journey wasn’t easy though, as he was inexperienced in every field: ‘People say it’s hard to get a job now and that it was so easy to get a job then. Well, it was never easy for a kid that doesn’t know anything to get a job.’

Truck Driving

Alex was working in a tire shop when someone looking for drivers entered the store. Although Alex had no experience at driving trucks, he offered himself for the job. He was contracted immediately, and worked as a coal mine driver for four years. In 1976 Alex moved to Yellowknife in Northwestern Canada, working as a driver until he was able to purchase his own truck in 1980.

Debogorski has talked about the importance of knowing mechanics for truck drivers, even though companies don’t necessarily require drivers to know these topics as they normally provide experts to fix trucks: ‘When I’m in remote areas, being able to fix stuff has come in handy for myself, as well as for others who I’m able to help out. Of course, the electronification of our equipment has made it difficult for even real mechanics to fix some things on our newer trucks. But the more one knows about his or her job, the better the job can be understood.’

Besides knowing how to fix their cars, Alex says a truck driver should have many skills, such as managing situations of stress and pressure, map reading, first aid, human relations and even accounting.

His four decades of experience have not only brought him knowledge in all of these fields, but also at some point it led him to leave normal roads for ice covered ones, which are deemed as very dangerous and require a level of expertise difficult to obtain for normal drivers, especially rookies.

Ice Road Truckers

Premiered on 17 June 2007, “Ice Road Truckers” is History Channel’s documentary reality series focused on various truck drivers, who risk their lives travelling over ice-covered ‘roads’ to bring food and other essential supplies to insolated areas of Canada and Alaska.

Alex Debogorski was initially contacted to participate in the show by a film crew, which had heard about his work ethic and charismatic personality through locals of the Canadian Northwestern Area.

Alex accepted, and is one of the only members of the cast who appeared in all of its seasons.

“Ice Road Truckers” had on average three million viewers per episode, becoming the network’s most watched show in a short time. It also received good reviews from critics, such as The New York Times’ Virginia Heffernan, who said: ‘Watching these guys … make their runs, it’s hard not to share in their cold, fatigue and horrible highway hypnosis, that existential recognition behind the wheel late at night that the pull of sleep and the pull of death are one and the same’.

Despite the show being reality TV, some of the scenes were edited to appear more dramatic and engaging to viewers.

Debogorski has declared that some scenes depict situations that didn’t exactly happen as shown: ‘Sometimes, I feel like they’ve shown me as a real ass. But that is reality! What can I say? I try not to worry about it. I’m not running for president or anything else. It’ll all come to an end one day and I’ll vanish into the dust of time’.

Alex also appeared in the series “Deadliest Roads”, showcasing the same cast of “Ice Road Truckers”, though centered on virtually impossible roads in countries of various continents such as Africa and South America.

Where is Ice Road Truckers Alex Debogorski today? Died?

Despite the huge popularity of “Ice Road Truckers”, the show was canceled in 2017 after 11 successful seasons. For his part, Alex Debogorski is alive and still works as an ice road trucker.

After the end of the series, he has keep himself active in social media especially on Facebook, on which he keeps his fans informed of his activities and work.

Most recently, in July 2020 he posted about his return to trucking: ‘I’m on the road again. On my way to Berwyn with my car carrier. I have an old 1929 tractor, a Canadian Ford (Mercury) pick up and one other. I’ll drop that trailer and hook up to my drop deck and carry on to Edmonton to pick up the siding for my shop. Back to Yellowknife unload and start putting my shop back together. The two weeks quarantine is not a problem, as I have so much work to do at both my yards I would not see anyone for weeks.’

Personal Life

Marriage

In 1972 and while still attending college, Alex married Louise. The couple have welcomed 11 children in total, and are apparently still happily wed after five decades of marriage.

To date Alex and Louise are grandparents of 13 kids, though their goal is to have 90 grandchildren, as Alex revealed in an interview: ‘we have 13 grandchildren already and everybody [keeps busy working on more] so I wouldn’t be surprised if we get there. The bottom line is, life is short. So, I wonder, what are we doing this all for? I figure it’s children. Even though I don’t particularly like children because they’re the reason I’m broke!’

Son’s Death

Alex’s son Andrew Deborgoski died in 2019, when he got caught in a fire that broke-out in his Yellowknife house. In 2017 Andrew had been diagnosed with ASL (Lou Gehrig’s Disease), a condition that made him unable to walk or sleep.

Despite his condition, Andrew could ‘speak’ through a machine connected as a cursor to his head. In the midst of the devastating event, Andrew warned his wife to save their kids first. Once outside of the house and with their children safe, his wife Myriam informed authorities Andrew was still inside the building. However, it was too late for him to be saved, and he was declared dead after being transported to Stanton Territorial Hospital.

The community raised funds to help Andrew’s family, collecting $26,000 in total and a huge amount of physical donations. Alex Debogorski shows himself very touched by the support received: ‘We’re in this together and a lot of people understand better than I do, they’ve suffered this numerous times’.

Net Worth

Alex Debogorski has a estimated net worth of close to $700,000, as a result of his work as a truck driver along with his earnings for appearing in “Ice Road Truckers”, and from an autobiographical book entitled “King of The Road: True Tales from a Legendary Ice Road Trucker”. published in 2010.

Physical Appearance

Alex is a man of white ethnicity, though there’s no information about his current weight and height.

Interesting Facts

Alex Debogorski is a devoted Catholic, and considers himself as a family-oriented man.

Although there’s no information about his current health, he has adopted a healthy lifestyle in recent years.

Despite his fame, Alex has shown a dignified attitude regarding his career: ‘You see trucks jack-knifed in the snow, and accidents that were probably unpreventable. There are plenty of better drivers out there than me, but I know enough to respect the weather and listen to the ice.’

Who is Joseline Hernandez?

Puerto Rican rapper, actress and TV personality Joseline Hernandez was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on 3 November 1986, making Scorpio her zodiac sign. She began attracting attention when cast to star in the VH1 reality show “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta”, which has been airing since 2012, and today stars Mimi Faust, Rasheeda and Karlie Redd. It follows the lives of some of the wealthiest women from Atlanta, Georgia ,and the show’s won one of its five award nominations.

Education and early life

For the first three years of her life, Joseline was raised in Ponce’s public housing system by her father whose name remains undisclosed, and mother Carmen; her father then died from a heroin overdose, and she was six when she and her five siblings moved to Florida USA with their mother and stepfather Luis.

The family struggled financially, especially because Joseline’s youngest brother’s autistic. She studied at a local high school, and was 16 when she began working as a stripper, to help her family, using the name ‘Shenellica Bettencourt’; Joseline was arrested twice during this time, aged 17 and 21, for lascivious behavior.

Joseline matriculated in 2004.

Joseline’s career

Joseline continued to work as a stripper after completing her high school education, and was in 2007 cast to star in a reality show about the life of strippers, but the pilot episode wasn’t picked up by any network.

Her life turned around in 2012, when she began starring in “Love & Hip Hop Atlanta: Check Yourself”, and became a star on the internet. The following year saw Joseline appear in the TV specials “2013 AVN Awards Show” and “2013 BET Hip Hop Awards”, while the year 2014 saw her make a guest appearance in an episode of the talk-show “This Is Hot 97”.

In 2013 and 2014, Joseline starred in 13 episodes of the reality show “Love & Hip Hop Atlanta: Check Yourself”, and could then have been seen appearing in an episode of the reality shows “GGN: Snoop Dogg’s Double G News Network” and “Love & Hip Hop Atlanta: After Party Live!”

Joseline was then invited to appear in the TV specials “BET Awards 2015” and “VH1 BIG in 2015 with Entertainment Weekly”, and in 2017 starred in 10 episodes of the musical news talk-show “The Real”; it aired from 2013 through 2022, starred Adrienne Houghton, Jeannie Mai Jenkins and Loni Love, and won 11 of its 40 award nominations.

She signed a contract with streaming service Zeus Network on 11 October 2019, and has since 19 January 2020 been starring in her own reality show “Joseline’s Cabaret”; some of Joseline’s most recent talk-show appearances have been in “Cornbread TV”, “Bobby I Love You, Purrr”, and “College Hill: Celebration Edition”.

Acting credits

Joseline has two acting credits. She played Michelle in four episodes (2016-2017) of the musical series “Star”, which starred Brittany O’Grady, Ryan Destiny and Jude Demorest, and was created by Tom Donaghy and Lee Daniels. It tells the story of a musical group founded by three women, and the series was nominated for seven awards.

In 2022, Joseline appeared in the episode “White Knights” of the crime series “P-Valley”, created by Katori Hall, and which today stars Nicco Annan, Shannon Thornton and J. Alphonse Nicholson. It follows the lives of a group of strippers, the series has been airing since 2020, and has won 10 of its 47 award nominations.

YouTube channel

Joseline uploads her music videos onto her self-titled YouTube channel, which she launched on 12 February 2020, and which today numbers over 21 million views of her seven videos combined. The channel’s subscribed to by over 80,000 people, and we’re going to cover Joseline’s three most viewed videos, which’ve contributed to her internet popularity.

Her #1 video “Joseline Hernandez- “Vegas” (I Wanna Ride)” has been watched more than 10 million times since 17 January 2022, and is her original song.

Joseline’s second most popular video “Joseline Hernandez- Live Your Best Life “DO IT LIKE ITS YOUR BDAY” has been watched more than 2.5 million times since 30 August 2021, and is also her original song.

Her #3 video “Joseline Hernandez- Sex Drive” was uploaded on 19 February 2020, and has since been viewed close to 800,000 times.

Love life and relationships

Joseline doesn’t shy away from sharing the details of her love life with her fans, and it’s widely known that she’s bisexual.

She was in a long on-and-off relationship with Stevie J, a popular American DJ and music producer; the two claimed in 2013 that they’d exchanged vows, however, while making a guest appearance in a reality show in 2016, Stevie J revealed that they faked their marriage just for publicity. The two then broke up in the fifth season of the reality show “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta”, but reconciled and broke up several times in the following three years; Joseline gave birth to their daughter on 28 December 2016, while she was Stevie’s sixth child.

Since the second half of 2019, Joseline’s been engaged to American music producer Robin Jimmy Ingouma – aka Ballistic Beats; she hasn’t married as of April 2023, and has a daughter with former boyfriend Stevie J.

Interesting facts and hobbies

Joseline enjoys being active on various social media networks, and is an Instagram star as she’s followed by close to five million people on this network, while she’s uploaded only three pictures. She’s also active on TikTok and is followed by more than 120,000 people, while she’s amassed more than 600,000 likes of all her videos combined, most of which feature her showing off her large breasts and buttocks.

Joseline works out at the gym nearly every day, as it’s necessary for her career to remain in shape; she’s also following a diet, and rarely eats fast food and sweets.

She’s passionate about fashion, and is a bit of shopaholic as she buys new clothes nearly every day.

Joseline’s a fan of Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, and some of her favorite movies include “Wanted”, “Salt” and “The Tourist”.

Height, eyes and wealth

Joseline’s age is 36. Her eyes and hair are brown, she’s 5ft 8ins (1.73m) tall and weighs around 145lbs (65kgs).

Joseline’s net worth’s been estimated at over $300,000, as of May 2023.

Troy Landry is an American hunter, fisherman and TV personality, born on 9 June 1961, in Pierre Part, Louisiana USA. He’s known for being the star of the reality TV series “Swamp People”.

Early Life

Troy was born Duffy and Mrytle Landry’s first of four sons. Although there’s no information about Troy’s childhood, it’s known he studied in Pierre Part Primary School and Middle School.Along his brothers Guy and Bubba, he started fishing and hunting at an early age following their family’s tradition.

Of French descent, his parents faced many problems growing up as they didn’t speak English well, and were economically underprivileged, Troy declared: ‘My parents didn’t have electricity or power. They grew up with nothing’.

Career

Fishing Business

Troy Landry is a skilled fisherman, dedicating from eight to nine months a year in harvesting and marketing crawfish. Earnings from commercial fishing allowed Landry to establish his own seafood restaurant in 1992.

In addition, Troy has helped his father to set-up his own bait shop named Duffy’s Shell, which also serves as one of their hometown’s few gas stations. Baits sold at the store are caught by Troy himself, as buying it is more expensive: ‘It comes from the East Coast. We used to get bait from Florida to Maine for crawfishing, but now we compete with everybody for bait. We even compete with people at Sea World for bait. We used to pay 10-12 cents per pound.

Now, because they eliminated commercial fishing in a lot of states, we have to pay up to 40 cents per pound.’

Not only is fishing Landry’s main occupation and principal source of income, he considers it a hobby as well, catching turtles, frogs and catfishes in his spare time.

Gator Hunting

Troy Landry has been skillfully hunting gators for decades, job for which he’s known as “King of the Swamp” in his natal Louisiana.

American gators are legally hunted in various south-eastern states of US in a tradition dating back to 1700’s, seasons usually lasting four weeks in each designated zone. Troy regularly takes part in this dangerous practice two times a year, starting 25 August in East Zone, its end giving him a free week until the start of September, when another season starts in West Zone.

Alligator skin is well sold as a luxury item internationally, though in recent years its price has lowered from $40 to $12 for 1ft (0.3m) for hide, which has almost made Landry stop this hunting: ‘It’s almost not worth killing a big gator. It’s almost not worth it. You have to wait so long for them to get that big.’

Despite this, demand for gator meat has been increasing steadily, which has helped to sustain Troy’s business. Moreover, gator trapping is a profession Troy has dedicated many years of his life to, therefore finding success at it: ‘We usually catch alligators when nobody else is catching any. I don’t think it’s because we are better hunters, I think it’s just because we have a little more experience and a few little tricks up our sleeves, that others may not always think of.

We manage to catch five or six really big ones every year. Most hunters only catch one every 10 years. Paying attention to the little things makes a difference’.

Swamp People – TV Debut

Troy was cast to appear in the reality TV series “Swamp People”, which premiered on 22 August 2010 on History Channel. The show focuses not only on Landry, but also on other Louisiana-based hunters, who risk their lives catching gators in Atchafalaya River Basin’s swamps.

Landry usually appears in the show alongside his son Jacob Landry, and others hunters such as his friend Clint Landry and his own brothers Guy and Bubba.

His popularity in the show resulted in him starring in its 2018 spin-off “Swamp Mysteries with Troy Landry”, which has been significant to Landry’s life, unexpectedly changing it: ‘They’re pulling me in all directions. I’m enjoying it though. I like to make other people happy. I put other people before me. I never expected this to happen. I figured fishermen would enjoy the show, but not so many people from so many different walks of life.’

Despite the good reception the show has gathered, Troy was initially worried about show’s representation of gator hunting and what it entails: ‘It’s real nasty in the boat; at the end of the day, it gets ugly. I was really worried they were going to make it a blood battle on TV. I find History Channel did an awesome job. They show us harvesting the gator but didn’t focus a whole lot on the killing part.’

He’s also content about producers including his family and other’s hunters in the show, positively portraying their simple lifestyle.

“Swamp People” has changed other aspects of people’s lives as well, as not only tourism during gator hunting season has increased in Pierre Part thanks to the show, but also demand and consumption of alligator meat.

Personal Life

Troy married Bernita on 26 September 1981. Although there’s no information about the couple’s history and first meeting, it is known Bernita was previously married to Randy Hotard, with whom she had a son named Brandon in 1976.

Troy developed a strong relationship with his stepson, who has appeared in “Swamp People” accompanying his step-dad in his gator hunting journeys.

To show his gratitude, Brandon posted a photo on his official Facebook page commemorating 2013’s father’s day: ‘Some may consider it unfortunate that I’ve had to endure divorced parents. But I consider myself blessed to have two great dads who have raised me and guided me through my life.’

Bernita welcomed two sons with Landry, named Jacob and Chase; both are recurrent stars in “Swamp People” and hunt full time with their father.

Net Worth

Reportedly, Landry’s family earned an estimated of $25,000 per “Swamp People” episode. Beside this, Troy’s commercial fishing and hunting activities has been providing for his family for decades, so his estimated net worth is over $2 million, as of mid-2020.

Physical Appearance

Troy Landry is a man of white ethnicity, who is 5ft 8ins (1.77m) tall and weighs around 195lbs (88kgs). Despite his TV star status, Troy remains humble, and usually wears simple clothes and caps.

Interesting Facts

Troy Landry’s appearances on TV have affected his family in a positive way, he told Louisiana Travel: ‘My momma went to the doctor last week in Baton Rouge, and when she told somebody she was from Pierre Part, they asked, ‘Do you know the Swamp People?’ She said, ‘Yeah, one of them is my son.’ My momma told me she had to take pictures with these people and sign autographs for them. It’s unbelievable, yeah, it’s unbelievable.’

Troy has a signature Ralph Lauren shirt, which he wears for good luck.

Besides turtles, Troy’s favorite food is grilled alligator, he told Louisiana Travel: ‘We pan fry it, and we make a sauce piquante, a stew, that’s very good. The white meat, we like to grill it or fry it up or put it on the fire pit.’

Although Troy has managed to live off the land (or water) his entire life, there have been hunting and fishing seasons in which he has hit a bad luck streak. Seeing himself in need of money during those times, Troy worked as helper in a friend’s construction company.

Off-gator season, Troy still goes deer hunting.