Actor Yusuke Yamamoto (38) Announces Marriage — 5ch Balks: ‘One of Showbiz’s Most Popular Guys’? Since When?

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Actor and TV personality Yusuke Yamamoto (38) dropped a surprise marriage announcement on the ABEMA show “Ai no Hyena season 6.” His partner is a non-celebrity woman, and his surprise confession in front of his host mentor reportedly left the studio audience gasping. While Yamamoto is best known for his role in “Kamen Rider Kabuto,” he’s also been working as a host club employee in recent years, and 5ch threads buzzed with comments like “isn’t he basically a host now rather than a celebrity?” and “he’s making his money doing pachinko parlor appearances.” The report’s description of him as “one of showbiz’s most popular ladies’ men” also drew skepticism about just how well-known he still is, splitting opinion in the thread.

38-year-old Yusuke Yamamoto announces marriage to a non-celebrity woman — his surprise reveal leaves the studio saying “Whaat?!”

TV personality and actor Yusuke Yamamoto (38) announced on the 29th broadcast of ABEMA’s “Ai no Hyena season 6” (Tuesdays 11pm) that he has gotten married. His partner is a non-celebrity woman.

Yamamoto has been taking on the challenge of working as a host on the show. In front of his mentor, known by the nickname “Gunshin” (God of War), Ikki Shinminato, he made the surprise announcement: “There’s something I need to tell you. I haven’t told anyone this anywhere, but I, Yusuke Yamamoto, have gotten married.” The studio erupted with cries of “Whaat?!”

Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here

What people said

5AnonymousSep 29, 2026 23:49
Once he quits hosting, pachinko parlor appearances are probably the only work he'll have left.
10AnonymousSep 29, 2026 23:51
Wait, is this guy even a celebrity anymore? Didn't his agency drop him and he became a regular civilian?
11AnonymousSep 29, 2026 23:51
At this point you're basically just a regular guy too.
12AnonymousSep 29, 2026 23:52
This guy's basically a host now, not a celebrity.
14AnonymousSep 29, 2026 23:54
The "host" thing is just for when the cameras are rolling — he's really a pachislot (pachinko-slot) parlor appearance guy.
15AnonymousSep 29, 2026 23:54
I saw him at a pachinko parlor appearance and he was super friendly to everyone.
He really is good-looking and popular with women.
26AnonymousSep 29, 2026 23:58
Re: #15
When I saw him, he was chatting away in a circle of regular middle-aged lady customers.
16AnonymousSep 29, 2026 23:54
In the ABEMA promo clips on X (Twitter), all they showed was him losing his temper at other hosts.
18AnonymousSep 29, 2026 23:54
Is he still doing those Livemax commercials?
19AnonymousSep 29, 2026 23:55
His flashy, playboy vibe totally overlaps with Yuya Tegoshi's.
22AnonymousSep 29, 2026 23:56
Isn't he the one who came out on the Gairoku Channel (a YouTube channel of street interviews) about his grandfather being a Zainichi Korean (ethnic Korean living in Japan)?
51AnonymousSep 30, 2026 00:15
Here it is —
so he's got foreign roots on his paternal side.
His mother's side isn't mentioned, but assuming she's Japanese,
I don't know his father's current nationality, but by blood he'd be half.

Re: #22
Main points he revealed on "Gairoku ch":
1. On his own roots
He first learned about his roots around age 32, when his grandfather passed away.
His paternal grandparents were Zainichi Koreans, and given the harsh social climate and discrimination of that era, even his own father had been kept in the dark about it growing up.
He describes being shocked when relatives suddenly revealed to him that "our bloodline is half Korean, half Japanese."
29AnonymousSep 29, 2026 23:59
The actors who played Kamen Riders in Kabuto either never really broke out, or got pushed hard and then vanished anyway.
Speaking of which, I wondered what happened to Hidenori Tokuyama — turns out he showed up in the finale of GTO. Still good-looking as ever.
37AnonymousSep 30, 2026 00:08
I see his name all the time but I still don't actually know what he looks like.
39AnonymousSep 30, 2026 00:08
What's he gonna do about the host job?
It's not like there's much actual entertainment work for him anyway.
43AnonymousSep 30, 2026 00:10
Re: #1
As for actor Yusuke Yamamoto's education: he graduated from Aichi Prefectural Toyokawa Technical High School (Mechanical Engineering course), which has a hensachi (academic ranking score) of 41. He never went on to university.
45AnonymousSep 30, 2026 00:10
"One of the biggest names in showbiz"?!
…His name recognition though…
46AnonymousSep 30, 2026 00:12
Apparently he's booked as a special guest at some local town festival, lol.
Is his appearance fee really that cheap now?
49AnonymousSep 30, 2026 00:14
The guy who does the Yuji Oda impression, Takahiro Yamamoto — he's way more famous!
53AnonymousSep 30, 2026 00:16
Yusuke Yamamoto
Ai no Hyena
Erukore
Shota Taira
Hana Kuraki

Dead silence from all of them.
54AnonymousSep 30, 2026 00:16
I wonder if he'll appear in the Kamen Rider Kabuto 20th anniversary movie coming out in November.
55AnonymousSep 30, 2026 00:16
Host clubs are probably going to keep facing more and more regulation anyway.
58AnonymousSep 30, 2026 00:18
His popularity's made a comeback thanks to that host reality show (´・ω・`)
59AnonymousSep 30, 2026 00:18
This guy's raking it in doing pachinko parlor appearances.
He shows up out in rural Kyushu all the time too lol
60AnonymousSep 30, 2026 00:20
He's having a bit of a comeback, so stepping down from hosting early seems like a smart move.
If marriage is the reason, nobody can really complain.
Though he'd be an idiot to keep at it lol
62AnonymousSep 30, 2026 00:27
I thought he used to run a yakiniku restaurant, so I googled it — apparently it closed at the end of last year, but it looks like he's still in the restaurant business.
67AnonymousSep 30, 2026 00:44
A total has-been.
75AnonymousSep 30, 2026 01:05
Re: #67
Lately he's being pushed hard on that Tokyo MX show about kyabakura hostesses (cabaret club girls) hosted by Kenkoba, lol
69AnonymousSep 30, 2026 00:50
Exactly 20 years ago —
winner of the Thanksgiving Mini Marathon, Autumn 2006.

Background and Talking Points

While Yusuke Yamamoto is best known for his role in “Kamen Rider Kabuto,” in recent years he’s been more visible through his host club work and pachinko parlor guest appearances than through acting, and the thread saw multiple comments along the lines of “he’s basically a host now, not really a celebrity.” The show where this announcement happened, “Ai no Hyena,” follows him training as a host — a very different context from his acting career, which appears to be part of why the report’s description of him as “one of showbiz’s most popular ladies’ men” didn’t quite match how the thread saw him. Details shared in the thread, like his educational background and the closure of the yakiniku restaurant he used to run, were treated as general updates on where his career stands now — with a notably level-headed, skeptical take on his current career status running underneath the otherwise upbeat marriage announcement.

*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread “[Entertainment] Actor Yusuke Yamamoto Announces Marriage! Partner Is a Non-Celebrity Woman — Studio Reacts “Whaat?!” to Surprise From One of Showbiz’s Most Popular Ladies’ Men.”

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