Who Dares Win star Mike Whitney was spotted in Las Vegas on Thursday looking very different from his heyday.

The former Channel Seven star, 66, stepped out at an NRL media event at Resorts World in the US city.

Mike was all smiles as he slipped into a black T-shirt with his podcast name How’s That? branded on it, and rocked some very grey locks.

He could be seen posing with other fellow podcast hosts during his night out and appeared to be having the time of his life.

It comes after Mike revealed the surprising reason his popular reality TV show Who Dares Win was axed in the late 1990s.

The former test cricket star was the co-host of the popular Channel Seven series alongside Tania Zaetta from 1996-1998.

Who Dares Win star Mike Whitney, 66, was spotted in Las Vegas on Thursday looking very different from his heyday

The show saw contestants tasked with completing a variety of thrilling dares for prizes—from relatively tame ones such as whistling while eating biscuits, to riskier ones like jumping off a three-storey building and landing on a crash mat.

Mike recently appeared on the Bloke in a Bar podcast and explained despite its incredible rating success the series was scrapped because of the high insurance costs.

‘The show was just nuts! This is what happened. In year one what was a major dare that if the person completed they went around the world on a holiday. In year two it was now a $50 dare,’ he began.

He said producers were faced with the challenge of continually making the dares more thrilling but without making them so risky that insurance premiums would go through the roof.

‘Step up, step up, step up! I remember seeing on the office whiteboard plans for a person to feed a shark in Queensland wearing a chainmail metal glove,’ he said.

‘I said to producers, “What if the shark bites the contestant at the elbow?” Well, then the insurance costs went out of control!’

He added there were even some death-defying un-aired motorcycle stunts, which saw contestants get injured and hospitalised. The show ended shortly afterward.

‘You couldn’t make the show now!’ he finished.

The former Channel Seven star stepped out at an NRL media event at Resorts World in the US city. Pictured with Chairperson of the Australian Rugby League Commission Peter V’landys

Mike was all smiles as he slipped into a black T-shirt with his podcast name How’s That? branded on it, and rocked some very grey locks. Pictured with Denan Kemp from Bloke in a Bar podcast

In January 2022, Mike left Seven Network and stepped down from hosting Sydney Weekender after a 27-year career on the travel show.

He hosted his final episode and was joined by his replacement, sprinter-turned-broadcaster Matt Shirvington, who later moved to presenting on Sunrise.

It was a bittersweet moment for the TV presenter, who first appeared on Sydney Weekender back in 1994.

‘Twenty-seven years! To do anything for that long is a very long time,’ he said of his resignation.

‘I had the best hosting job in Australia. I got to travel everywhere in NSW, meet the most amazing people, and do the most amazing things.’

He continued: ‘People pay to do the stuff I got paid to do. I’m very grateful that I got the opportunity to work on this show.’

‘People ask me if I’m going to miss it. Sure, I am going to miss it. It feels a bit surreal. But I had an incredible cricket career as well and I had to retire from that. And who gets to retire twice from two wonderful careers?’ he said.

Mike joined Sydney Weekender the same year he retired from cricket.

He has also hosted other TV shows, including ABC’s Great Ideas, Who Dares Wins and Last Chance Learners.

He is the father of 30-year-old triplets Fergus, Juliet and Madeline, who he shares with his ex-wife Debbie.