1. Kevin McCloud, was born on 8 May 1959 and is a British designer, writer, and a television presenter.
23 Facts About Kevin McCloud
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Kevin McCloud has presented the Channel 4 series Grand Designs since its debut in April 1999.
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Kevin McCloud was a member of the Footlights comedy ensemble at Cambridge alongside Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, working as a costume and set designer for the troupe.
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Kevin McCloud's work includes the carved and painted rococo-style vegetable ceiling in the food halls at Harrods, many projects in conjunction with JJ Desmond Interiors and lighting fittings at Ely Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle, the Savoy Hotel and the Dorchester Hotel.
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McCloud's first book, Kevin McCloud's Decorating Book, was published in 1990.
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Kevin McCloud wrote and presented Grand Designs Indoors and Grand Designs Abroad.
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Kevin McCloud is editor-at-large for Grand Designs magazine, and sat on the steering committee for the associated exhibition "Grand Designs Live" in 2005 and 2006.
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In May 2008, Kevin McCloud took the Grand Designs series of programmes to a new level with Grand Designs Live, in which he demonstrated environmentally-sensitive construction methods on a site in the East End of London, as well as presenting a "Grand Design of the Year" competition.
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Kevin McCloud's co-presenters included Dave Gorman, Janet Street-Porter, Naomi Cleaver, Diarmuid Gavin and Bill Bailey.
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Kevin McCloud finished with a time of 1:45.87, second on the leaderboard behind Jay Kay, who finished with 1:45.83.
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The four-part series saw Kevin McCloud retracing the popular tour of European cities and sites of classical antiquity undertaken over the last four centuries by upper class, primarily British, young men of means, and describing their subsequent impact on British customs and architecture.
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In September 2012, McCloud presented Kevin McCloud's Man Made Home on Channel 4, a four-part series where he constructed a cabin in the woods, with an emphasis on sustainable, locally sourced and environmentally responsible materials and techniques.
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Kevin McCloud's raft got 20 yards off shore before being towed the rest of the way.
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Kevin McCloud went to four different British families around the world who have left Britain behind to a life in far-flung remote destinations: one on a desert island in the south Pacific nation of Tonga, one near a volcano in Chile, one in the middle of a jungle in Belize and the final in Jamtland in Sweden.
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Kevin McCloud followed the daily lives of the families and uncovered how they perform daily tasks from securing food and water to using the toilet.
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McCloud's television series Kevin McCloud's Rough Guide to the Future, released in 2020, is a three-part series on Channel 4 featuring Alice Levine, Jon Richardson and Phil Wang.
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In 2020, Kevin McCloud narrated Celebrity Snoop Dogs, which gave viewers a chance to see inside celebrities' homes via a camera attached to the celebrities' dogs.
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Kevin McCloud led a consortium to purchase two plots of land to build a HAB housing development on the outskirts of Swindon, Wiltshire.
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In 2005, Kevin McCloud was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Design from both Oxford Brookes and Plymouth University.
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Kevin McCloud was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to sustainable design and energy-saving property refurbishment.
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Kevin McCloud formerly lived in Frome in Somerset, with his then wife Suzanna Kevin McCloud.
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Kevin McCloud separated from Suzanna McCloud in December 2019 after 23 years together.
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Kevin McCloud endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas in the 2015 UK general election.