Ben Fogle
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Ben Fogle FRGS | |
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Born | Benjamin Myer Fogle[1] 3 November 1973 Westminster, London, England |
Alma mater | University of Portsmouth University of Costa Rica |
Occupation(s) | Television presenter and writer |
Spouse |
Marina Fogle (m. 2006) |
Children | Ludo Fogle (b. 2009) Iona Fogle (b. 2011)[2] |
Parent(s) | Julia Foster Bruce Fogle |
Website | www |
Benjamin Myer Fogle, .
Early life
Fogle is the son of English actress
.Fogle went to Ecuador for a gap year, working in an orphanage teaching English. He then took a second year working on a turtle conservation project on the Mosquito Coast of Honduras and Nicaragua.
Fogle studied for a degree in Latin American studies at the University of Portsmouth, before studying for a year at the University of Costa Rica.[4]
During this time, Fogle was a member of the
Career
Magazines
Fogle's initial jobs included picture editor at Tatler magazine.[4]
Television
Fogle first came to public notice when he participated in the BBC reality show Castaway 2000, which followed a group of thirty-six people marooned on the Scottish island of Taransay for a year, starting 1 January 2000. This was a social experiment aimed at creating a fully self-sufficient community within a year.
Fogle is a television presenter who has worked for the
In 2010, Fogle made a film about the facial deforming disease noma for a BBC Two documentary Make Me A New Face which followed the work of the charity Facing Africa and Great Ormond Street Hospital.[6]
Fogle has produced films about naval history and the
Fogle appeared on the programme Countryfile with John Craven from 2001 to 2008, during which he reported on a number of UK rural pastimes. He rejoined the programme in 2014.
Since 2013, Fogle has presented two series of Harbour Lives, a documentary series on ITV. In 2014, Fogle joined the presenting team on ITV series Countrywise with Liz Bonnin and Paul Heiney, which covers aspects of the British coast and country.
Since 2013, Fogle has presented his show for
Fogle took over as the host of recommissioned and re-titled, 'Ben Fogle's Animal Clinic' on Channel 5, replacing disgraced presenter, Rolf Harris.
Sport
Atlantic Rowing Race
Fogle was the first to cross the line in the pairs division of the 2005–2006 Atlantic Rowing Race in "Spirit of EDF Energy", partnered by Olympic rower James Cracknell. While competing in the 3,000-mile race, the pair had their boat fully capsized by huge waves. They made landfall in Antigua at 07.13 GMT on 19 January 2006, a crossing time of 49 days, 19 hours, 8 minutes. After penalties, they were placed second in the pairs and fourth overall. In 2007, the BBC series that followed the pair, Through Hell and High Water, won a Royal Television Society award.
Marathon des Sables
He has also completed the six-day
Amundsen Omega 3 South Pole Race
Fogle teamed up with Cracknell once again, together with Ed Coats, a Bristol-based doctor,
In October 2009, Fogle and Cracknell cycled a rickshaw 423 miles from Edinburgh to London non-stop. They took 60 hours to reach the capital, raising money for SSAFA (Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association). The event was filmed as part of The Pride of Britain Awards.[citation needed] Fogle and Cracknell planned to take part in the Tour Divide race in 2010, a 3,000-mile mountain-bike race across the Rocky Mountains, from Banff in Canada to the border of Mexico. The world record is held by American Matthew Lee and stands at 17 days. The race was put on hold after Cracknell received life-threatening injuries after being knocked from his bicycle in America while training.[citation needed] In 2013, Fogle and Cracknell teamed up again for their third and final expedition across the Empty-quarter of Oman for a new BBC Two series.[citation needed]
Mount Everest
On 16 May 2018, Fogle summited Mount Everest, completing the climb over a six-week period whilst accompanied by two sherpa guides and Kenton Cool.[19] His trek also included former Olympic cyclist Victoria Pendleton, who abandoned her attempt due to severe altitude sickness. A film Our Mount Everest Challenge (The Challenge: Everest) documented by CNN, aired in June 2018, to highlight environmental issues around mountains in his new role as UN patron of the wilderness. The whole project was made possible by Fogle's good friend,
Writing
Fogle has written ten books; The Teatime Islands (2004) in search of the remaining islands in the
He has also written Offshore (2006), published by Penguin Books, in which he travelled around Britain in search of an island of his own.[23] He visited the Principality of Sealand and attempted to land on Rockall in the North Atlantic.[citation needed] In 2006 he published The Crossing, published by Atlantic books and co-written with Cracknell followed their Transatlantic rowing bid.[citation needed] In 2009, The Race to the Pole was published by Macmillan and spent ten weeks in the best-seller list.[citation needed] His seventh book Labrador was released in 2015. In it, he explores the origin, characteristics and exploits of the breed.
In 2016, Land Rover: The Story of the Car that Conquered the World was published.[24] English: A Story of Marmite, Queuing and Weather, which was published in 2017, examines the English national character.[25] He published his tenth book, Up, in October 2018. Co-written with his wife, Marina, Up documents his planning, training and eventual summit of Mount Everest.[26]
In 2019 Fogle launched a children's book series, co-written by best-selling children's author
Fogle writes a weekly Country Diary for the
Activism
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Fogle is the UN Patron of the Wilderness, a role that sees him highlight the pressure and impact on the Earth's wildest corners. His aim is to focus more attention on the conservation cause and inspire greater global action to ensure our actions do not damage the environment.[29]
He is the President of the
Alongside the historian Philippa Gregory, Fogle is a patron of the UK Chagos Supporters Association, fighting for the islanders' rights to return to the British Indian Ocean Territory. He has described "the story of the Chagos islanders' treatment at the hands of the UK government" as "one for which I am ashamed to be British [...] a story of deceit [... which has] shaken my very principles on conservation and democracy".[32]
In August 2014, Fogle was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue.[33]
On 11 May 2020 Fogle announced that his Twitter account would henceforth be donated to a different charity on a rolling, weekly basis.
Filmography
- Television
Year | Title | Role | Channel |
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2000–2001 | Castaway 2000 | Participant | BBC One |
2001–2009, 2014–2015, 2017–2018 | Countryfile | Co-presenter | |
2001–2009, 2016–present | Animal Park | Co-presenter | BBC One/BBC Two |
2002–2007 | One Man and His Dog | Presenter | BBC Two |
2003 | Big Screen Britain | Presenter | |
2003 | Death by Pets | Presenter | |
2004 | The Sand Marathon | Presenter | BBC Two |
2005–2006 | Animal Park: Wild in Africa | Co-presenter | |
2006 | Through Hell and High Water | Co-presenter | BBC One |
2006, 2007–2008 | Crufts | Co-presenter | BBC Two |
Cash in the Attic | Co-presenter | BBC One | |
2007 | Animal Park: Wild on the West Coast | Co-presenter | BBC Two |
2007–2009 | Extreme Dreams with Ben Fogle | Presenter | |
2009 | On Thin Ice | Co-presenter | |
2009–2010 | Country Tracks | Co-presenter | BBC One |
2010 | Ben Fogle's Escape in Time | Presenter | BBC Two |
2010 | Make Me A New Face: Hope For Africa's Hidden Children | Presenter | |
2010 | Prince William's Africa | Presenter | Sky1
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2011 | The Secrets of Scott's Hut | Presenter | BBC Two |
2011 | The World's Most Dangerous Roads[36] | Co-presenter | |
2012 | Swimming with Crocodiles | Presenter | |
2012 | Lonely Planet's Year of Adventures | Presenter | Travel Channel |
2013— | Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild | Presenter | Channel 5
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2013–2016 | Countrywise | Co-presenter | ITV |
2013 | Ben Fogle's Animal Clinic | Presenter | Channel 5
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2013–2014 | Harbour Lives | Presenter | ITV |
2014 | Trawlermen's Lives | Presenter | |
2015 | Ben Fogle: The Great African Migration | Presenter | Channel 5
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2016 | Coastal Walks with My Dog | Co-presenter | Channel 4 |
2016 | Taskmaster | Cameo | Dave |
2017, 2018 | Walks with My Dog | Co-presenter | More4 |
2018 | Britain's Favourite Dogs: Top 100 | Co-presenter | ITV |
2018 | Our Everest Challenge | Presenter | ITV |
2020, 2022 | New Lives in the Country[37] (previously known as Ben Fogle: Make A New Life In The Country)[38] | Presenter | Channel 5
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2020–2021 | For The Love Of Britain[39] | Co-presenter | ITV |
2021 | Inside Chernobyl with Ben Fogle[40] | Presenter | Channel 5
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2021, 2023 | Scotland’s Sacred Islands With Ben Fogle[41] | Presenter | BBC One |
2022 | Falklands War: The Forgotten Battle[42] | Presenter | ITV |
Ben Fogle & the Lost City[43] | Presenter | Channel 5
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Lost Worlds with Ben Fogle[44] | Presenter | ||
2023 | Ben Fogle and the Buried City[45] | Presenter | |
Endurance: Race to the Pole[46] | Himself | ||
2024 | Into the Congo with Ben Fogle[47] | Himself |
Personal life
In 2006, Fogle married Marina Charlotte Elisabeth,[48] daughter of Jonathan Hunt (son of John, Baron Hunt of Fawley) and Monika (daughter of Herbert Kuhlmann, of Schloss Urstein, Salzburg, Austria).[49][50] Their first child, a boy named Ludovic Herbert Richard Fogle, was born in 2009.[51] Their second child, a girl named Iona, was born in 2011. In 2014, they had a stillborn son, Willem; Marina also nearly died after suffering an acute placental abruption at 33 weeks.[52][53]
While filming a series of Extreme Dreams in Peru in 2008, Fogle contracted leishmaniasis, which left him bedridden for three weeks on his return home. He was treated at London's Hospital for Tropical Diseases.[54] Fogle went on to make a documentary, Make Me a New Face, about children in Ethiopia suffering from flesh-eating bacteria called noma. The documentary was broadcast on BBC Two in 2010.[6]
Fogle has had an acting cameo on the television programme Hotel Babylon.
On 20 February 2013, BBC Newsbeat published an article stating that he had claimed that his drink had been spiked at a pub in Gloucestershire. He described the effects as making him try to jump out of a window, and he subsequently spent a night in hospital.[55]
Honours
In 2010, Madame Tussauds modelled him as a waxwork.[56][57] He was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in 2013.[58]
Fogle was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) degree by the University of Portsmouth in 2007.[59]
See also
- List of English writers
- List of television presenters
- Old Bryanstonians
References
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- ^ "Celebrities' open letter to Scotland – full text and list of signatories". The Guardian. London. 7 August 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
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- ^ "For The Love Of Britain". itv.com. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
- ^ "Inside Chernobyl with Ben Fogle". channel5.com. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
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- ^ "Lost Worlds with Ben Fogle". radiotimes.com. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ^ "Ben Fogle and the Buried City". radiotimes.com. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
- ^ "Ben Fogle recreates 1900s Antarctica expedition in 'Endurance: Race to the Pole'". britishperioddramas.com. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
- ^ "Into the Congo with Ben Fogle". radiotimes.com. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
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- ^ County Life, vol. 162, 1977, p. 591
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- ^ Fogle, Marina (7 August 2018). "Marina Fogle: I took up running to deal with the death of my stillborn son". The Telegraph. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
- ^ Fogle, Marina (23 January 2015). "Marina Fogle: 'I never saw my son open his eyes or smile, but at least I told him how much he was loved'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
- ^ Staff (30 October 2008). "Fogle Catches a Flesh-Eating Bug". BBC News. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
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- ^ Bashforth, Emily (9 January 2022). "Ben Fogle's waxwork is absolute jokes". Metro. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
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External links
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- benfogle.com, his official website
- Ben Fogle on Eden
- Ben Fogle at IMDb
- Atlantic Rowing Race