1. Benjamin Myer Fogle was born on 3 November 1973 and is an English broadcaster, writer and adventurer, best known for his presenting roles with British television channels Channel 5, BBC and ITV.
47 Facts About Ben Fogle
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Ben Fogle was educated at two independent schools: The Hall School, Hampstead, in London, and Bryanston School in Blandford Forum, Dorset.
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Ben Fogle went to Ecuador for a gap year, working in an orphanage teaching English.
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Ben Fogle then took a second year working on a turtle conservation project on the Mosquito Coast of Honduras and Nicaragua.
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Ben 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.
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Ben 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.
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Ben Fogle is a television presenter who has worked for the BBC, ITV, Channel 5, Sky, Discovery and the National Geographic channels in the UK.
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In 2010, Ben 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.
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Ben Fogle has produced films about naval history and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution for the History Channel and followed Princes William and Harry on their first joint Royal Tour in Botswana and made an exclusive documentary called Prince William's Africa.
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Ben Fogle marked the centenary of Captain Scott's expedition to the South Pole with The Secrets of Scott's Hut.
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Ben Fogle is popular on the motivational and corporate speaking circuit.
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Ben Fogle was hired for two years as a special correspondent for NBC News in the United States, in 2011.
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Ben Fogle appeared on the programme Countryfile with John Craven from 2001 to 2008, during which he reported on a number of UK rural pastimes.
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Since 2013, Ben Fogle has presented two series of Harbour Lives, a documentary series on ITV.
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In 2014, Ben Fogle joined the presenting team on ITV series Countrywise with Liz Bonnin and Paul Heiney, which covers aspects of the British coast and country.
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Ben Fogle has completed the six-day Marathon des Sables for the World Wide Fund for Nature across 160 miles of the Sahara Desert and the Safaricom Marathon in Kenya for the Tusk Trust, with Longleat Safari Park keeper Ryan Hockley.
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Ben Fogle has completed the Bupa Great North Run in 1 hour 33 minutes, the London Marathon and the Royal Parks Half Marathon.
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Ben Fogle beat EastEnders actor Sid Owen in a three-round charity boxing match for BBC Sport Relief under the training of Frank Bruno and he recently re-ran the Safaricom marathon in Kenya with the injured Battleback Soldiers.
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Ben Fogle teamed up with Cracknell , together with Ed Coats, a Bristol-based doctor, as Team QinetiQ to take part in the inaugural "Amundsen Omega 3 South Pole Race".
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On 16 May 2018, Ben Fogle summited Mount Everest, completing the climb over a six-week period whilst accompanied by two sherpa guides and Kenton Cool.
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Ben Fogle's trek included former Olympic cyclist Victoria Pendleton, who abandoned her attempt due to severe altitude sickness.
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Ben Fogle has written ten books; The Teatime Islands in search of the remaining islands in the British Empire in which he travels to Saint Helena, Ascension Island, the Falkland Islands, the British Indian Ocean Territories and Tristan da Cunha.
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Ben Fogle tried to visit Pitcairn Island by private yacht, but when the inhabitants learned that he was a journalist they refused to let him land.
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Ben Fogle claims that they suspected that he was a spy, and after six hours of interrogation he was refused permission to visit and deported.
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Ben Fogle was accused of attempting to smuggle a breadfruit on to the island.
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Ben Fogle has written Offshore, published by Penguin Books, in which he travelled around Britain in search of an island of his own.
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Ben Fogle visited the Principality of Sealand and attempted to land on Rockall in the North Atlantic.
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Ben Fogle published his tenth book, Up, in October 2018.
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In 2019 Ben Fogle launched a children's book series, co-written by best-selling children's author Steve Cole and illustrated by Nikolas Ilic.
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Ben Fogle writes a weekly Country Diary for the Sunday Telegraph and is a regular columnist for The Daily Telegraph and travel writer for The Independent and has contributed to the Evening Standard, The New York Times, the Sunday Times and Glamour magazine.
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Ben Fogle has interviewed Gordon Brown and Prince William for the Mail on Sundays LIVE magazine.
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Ben Fogle is guest director of Cheltenham Literary Festival and a regular at the Hay-on-Wye festival.
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Ben Fogle is the UN Patron of the Wilderness, a role that sees him highlight the pressure and impact on the Earth's wildest corners.
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Ben Fogle's aim is to focus more attention on the conservation cause and inspire greater global action to ensure our actions do not damage the environment.
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Ben Fogle is the President of the Campaign for National Parks.
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Ben Fogle is : an ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund and Tusk; a supporter of the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme, and Hearing Dogs for Deaf People.
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Ben Fogle is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
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Ben Fogle is a patron for the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, the Prince's Trust, the Royal Parks Foundation, Child Bereavement UK and ShelterBox.
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Alongside the historian Philippa Gregory, Ben Fogle is a patron of the UK Chagos Supporters Association, fighting for the islanders' rights to return to the British Indian Ocean Territory.
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On 11 May 2020 Ben Fogle announced that his Twitter account would henceforth be donated to a different charity on a rolling, weekly basis.
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In 2006, Ben Fogle married Marina Hunt, daughter of Jonathan Hunt.
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Ben Fogle was treated at London's Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
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Ben Fogle went on to make a documentary, Make Me a New Face, about children in Ethiopia suffering from flesh-eating bacteria called noma.
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Ben Fogle has had an acting cameo on the television programme Hotel Babylon.
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Ben Fogle described the effects as making him try to jump out of a window, and he subsequently spent a night in hospital.
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Ben Fogle was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in 2013.
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Ben Fogle was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by the University of Portsmouth in 2007.