Early Life
Duhamel was born in Minot, North Dakota, into a Catholic family, the son of Bonnie L. Kemper, a physical education teacher, and Larry Duhamel, an advertising salesman. He is of French-Canadian, Irish, English, German, and Norwegian ancestry.
His parents divorced during his youth. Although he remains close to both, he grew up with his mother and his three younger sisters, Ashlee, Mckenzee and Kassidy. Duhamel attended Minot State University and played as the back-up quarterback for the university's football team. He planned to attend dental school, but dropped out one-and-a-half credits shy of his undergraduate degree.
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