Ben Fogle

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Ben Fogle (born 1973) is a British television presenter and travel writer, particularly noted for his posh accent and boyish good looks.

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He is the son of actress Julia Foster and broadcasting veterinarian Bruce Fogle. He attended Bryanston School in Dorset. During this period he took a year off from school and worked in an orphanage in Ecuador. Upon his return he read Latin American Studies at the University of Portsmouth. He worked on the Picture Desk of Tatler magazine in London.

Fogle first came to public notice by participating in the BBC reality show Castaway 2000, which followed a group of thirty-six people marooned on the island Taransay for a year starting January 1, 2000.

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 James Cracknell, third overall. 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.

He has also written a book called The Teatime Islands about the last remaining islands in the British Empire in which he travels to St Helena, Ascension Island, the Falkland Islands, the British Indian Ocean Territories and Tristan da Cunha. He also attempted to travel to Pitcairn Island but they got wind that he was a journalist and refused to let him land when he arrived.

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