Early Career and Dream Job
While he was reading a SportsCenter "Top Ten" highlights segment on the show, all eyes were on Selwyn's long hair, beard and his 70s Outlaw country western leisure suit. ESPN Vice-President of Talent, Al Jaffe, one of the show's judges, told him he was not credible because of his looks. Selwyn cleaned up his look (meaning he cut his beard into a goatee) in time for episode three. He went on to finish in third place on the show. Aaron Levine finished second to the eventual winner, Mike Hall. Tony Kornheiser later apologized for not picking Selwyn on his popular show "Pardon the Interruption" and admitted he had made a mistake. Zach appeared on "Pardon the Interruption" in June 2004 and read viewer mail with Kornheiser.
Selwyn appeared as the backwoods country-rap singing gas station attendant Randall Keith Randall in the film Dead and Breakfast released in early 2005.
Selwyn recorded three songs with pop singer and The Black Eyed Peas member Fergie from 2001 - 2002. Two of those songs, "Will The Ink Fade" and "No Place at All (Baby I'm a Drifter)" appear on Zachariah's first cd "Ghost Signs." The other song, "Other Side" is on the "C.I.L.F." ep from 2006.
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