HE HUSTLES

With a lifelong love for entertaining, Atlanta Native Vince Ashton is fulfilling his wildest dreams! 2022 was a year of boasting success with his television debut on the Food Network show, The Great Chocolate Showdown, and his newly minted position as the official host of all College Park, GA festivities including the NBA G-League Sky Hawks. Vince has many memorable moments in his entertainment career, he has performed for Former First Lady Michelle Obama, opened for Grammy Award Winning R&B songstress Monica, and became a recurring actor/dancer on the hit YouTube Show “Face the Music”

In 2022, he also performed in Vancouver, BC for the TedxSFU and he performed at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN Now in 2023, he has released his debut EP as a solo artist

Who is Vince, and what inspired your start in the entertainment industry?

Vince Ashton is a soulful, passionate, creative, and energetic guy from Atlanta, and represents it through and through! What inspired me in wanting to be in the entertainment industry is my love and hunger to perform From singing at a daycare Christmas recital from as young as I can remember, to youth choirs in church, winning high school talent shows, and now opening for Grammy Award winner, Monica, it just seemed like a natural fit for me

Tell us about the moment you received the call from The Food Network, what was going through your mind?

I remember it being a ZOOM call! It was an early weekday morning and we had already been submitting things, getting vaccinated, constant phone calls, texts, and interviews with producers for weeks Not to mention, I was already challenged before I even received the opportunity to bake a lot of things that I never baked before to show the producers I wanted this moment. Needless to say, I WAS TIRED!!! But when they sent a text saying they needed to interview me again and sort of sprung the "congratulations" moment on me, I was SHOCKED! My brain was blank from exhaustion and excitement