Ranjit "Ranj" Singh Sangha was born on 26 June 1979 and is a British doctor, television presenter, author and columnist.
17 Facts About Ranj Singh
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Ranj Singh is best known as a celebrity dancer on the BBC One dance series Strictly Come Dancing, and co-creating and presenting the CBeebies show Get Well Soon from 2012 to 2015.
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Ranj Singh has worked for ITV, on This Morning, as a resident doctor from 2016 to 2021, co-hosting Save Money: Good Health with Sian Williams and winning Cooking with the Stars in 2022.
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Ranj Singh became a member of The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in 2007.
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Ranj Singh has become a prominent contributor to factual programming and documentaries, appearing on This Morning as a resident doctor and on 20 July 2018, he was a guest presenter on the show, alongside Vanessa Feltz.
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Ranj Singh has contributed to a range of other programmes such as Inside Out, 5 News and Good Morning Britain.
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Ranj Singh appears regularly on various quiz shows and celebrity specials and in 2017, he won BBC's Pointless Celebrities, alongside Hilary Jones.
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Ranj Singh was partnered with Janette Manrara and was the sixth contestant to be eliminated.
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Outside of his work on Television, Ranj Singh has become the author of two children's educational books: Food Fuel and Skelebones, a Sunday Times bestselling cookbook and is a contributor and columnist for Al Jazeera, Attitude magazine and NetDoctor.
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Ranj Singh was one of the four competitors who took part in the Christmas special edition of The Great British Sewing Bee that was transmitted on Boxing Day 2020 on BBC One.
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From August to November 2021, Ranj Singh hosted the TV series Extreme Food Phobics, in which applicants would come to cure their food phobias.
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In December 2021, Ranj Singh appeared as a contestant on a Strictly Come Dancing Special that was the first episode of the revival series of the BBC game show The Weakest Link hosted by Romesh Ranganathan.
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In December 2023, Ranj Singh opened up about his poor mental health whilst working for This Morning.
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Ranj Singh grew up in an Indian traditionally Sikh household and focused on schoolwork, gaining his first GCSE at just eight years old.
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Ranj Singh married Sulvinder Samra, a pharmacist, at a traditional Sikh ceremony in Nottingham in 2005, and divorced in 2011.
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Ranj Singh came out as gay at the age of 30 in 2009 to his wife.
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Ranj Singh has been an advocate for LGBTQ rights, especially among minorities, and won the Attitude TV Award in 2019 where he spoke about how "People from ethnic minorities, people of colour, or LGBT people are still at a slight disadvantage" in the media.