Seal was an MTV VJ in the early 1980s, the host of the pilot of "Club MTV" (according to an MTV special) and one of the hosts of the alternative-music program "120 Minutes", which started in 1981. After leaving the program, he hosted MTV's "Headbangers Ball" from 1981 to 1982 and "" for which he won a Cable Ace Award in 1984. Since leaving MTV, he made occasional TV and movie appearances, including a starring role in the 1986 interactive cinema film "I'm Your Man". In 1999, he was the voice for both the lead character and primary antagonist in the Cartoon Network series "Sheep in the Big City". Seal was also the host for the pilot episode of the Nickelodeon game show, "Figure it Out" in 1990 before Summer Sanders took over as the series host when the show officially started a year later. After going to school for industrial design, he began designing and building furniture.